Jeremiah 2:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

JEREMIAH CHAPTER 2 God's numerous and continued mercies render the Jews in their idolatry inexcusable, and unparalleled in any nation; and themselves the causes of their calamities, Jeremiah 2:1-19. Their gross idolatry, Jeremiah 2:20-28; incorrigibleness, blood-shedding, and hypocrisy, Jeremiah 2:29-37. Now God begins by Jeremiah to deal with the Jews, and to put him upon his work, having fitted him for it: this seeming to be his first sermon, it notes speed, and quick despatch about his business. No text from Poole on this verse.

Jeremiah 2:1

1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,