Jeremiah 2:33

2 Chronicles 33:9; Ezekiel 16:27; Ezekiel 16:47; Ezekiel 16:51; Ezekiel 16:52; Hosea 2:13; Hosea 2:5-7; Isaiah 57:7-10; Jeremiah 2:23; Jeremiah 2:36; Jeremiah 3:1; Jeremiah 3:2

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Why trimmest thou thy way - literally, “Why makest thou thy way good,” a phrase used here of the pains taken by the Jews to learn the idolatries...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Why trimmest thou thy way to (u) seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. (u) With strangers.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Deserved Punishment. Israel's sorrows are well deserved, for Yahweh's love has been forgotten. In spite of wrong-doing, there is no penitence f...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

love. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), for the object loved. Compare Jeremiah 2:23 . ones. Here "wicked" is Feminine. wicked wo...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

This verse is differently explained: but the Prophet simply means; that the Jews were like lascivious women, who not only despise their husband...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. Why trimmest thou thy way - Ye have used a multitud...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Why trimmest thou thy way— Houbigant renders this verse, Why dost thou strew thy way, that thou mayest find lovers? And teachest thy ways to thy c...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. Why trimmest? Maurer translates, 'How skill...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah's Second Prophecy (2:1-3:5) The prophet expostulates with Israel because of their unfaithfulness to Jehovah. 1-13. Under the figure of...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Why art thou so careful in thy devotion to strange gods? In so doing thou hast made wicked ways to be a second nature to thee (or, thou hast taught t...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Why trimmest thou thy way...? — The verb is the same as that rendered “ amend” in Jeremiah 7:3 ; Jeremiah 7:5 , and was probably often on the li...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER II THE TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT Jeremiah 2:1-37 ; Jeremiah 3:1-5 THE first of the prophet's public addresses is, in fact, a sermo...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The first movement in commissioning the called man now commences. He was commanded to utter a great impeachment in the ears of Jerusalem. This impeac...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Never surely, was there afforded a more lively instance of the gracious purpose of God's unalterable love to his people, than what this Chapter affor...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love ?.... To seek the love, and gain the affections and esteem, of the idolatrous nations; as a lascivious woman...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. Ver. 33. Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love?...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love “The prophet,” says Lowth, “alludes to the practices of common harlots, who deck themselves, and use all inv...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Expostulations with Israel. B. C. 629. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Why trimmest, or deckest , Ezekiel 23:40 , thinking thereby to entice others to thy help? thus is the word used, Jeremiah 4:30 . Or, Why dos...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

YHWH Challenges His People To Explain Why They Are Behaving As They Are ( Jeremiah 2:29-37 ). YHWH now asks them why they are troubling Him with a...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES .— 1. Chronology. Most probably in thirteenth Josiah, quickly after his call. Dr. Dahler (Stratsbourg) would interpos...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 2:20-26 . For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill a...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 2:2 . I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth. God now addressed them, that he might do the same to the children as he had done to the...
The Biblical Illustrator

Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? Divine questions The people were required to answer two questions: “Have I been a wilderness unto Israel?...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The second chapter forms the introduction of a group of discourses (Jeremiah 2-6), which should be read together. It is called By Ewa...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Guilt Established
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? Israel decking herself like a harlot to accomplish her ends. Therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Trimmest — Or, deckest, Ezekiel 23:40 , thinking thereby to entice others to thy help. Taught — Nations that have been vile enough of themselves,...

³³ Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 2:33

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Jeremiah 2:33