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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 2:11 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 2:11 |
King James |
Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
glory--Jehovah, the glory of Israel (Psa 106:20; Rom 1:23). The Shekinah, or cloud resting on the sanctuary, was the symbol of "the glory of the Lord" (Kg1 8:11; compare Rom 9:4). The golden calf was intended as an image of the true God (compare Exo 32:4-5), yet it is called an "idol" (Act 7:41). It (like Roman Catholic images) was a violation of the second commandment, as the heathen multiplying of gods is a violation of the first.
not profit-- (Jer 2:8). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
A nation - A Gentile nation, in strong antithesis to people, the appellation of Israel.
Their glory - Though the worship of the one true God is a nation's greatest glory, yet it is irksome because it puts a constraint on human passions.
That which doth not profit - Israel had exchanged the prosperity which was God's reward of obedience for the calamities which resulted from idol-worship. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Their glory - The true God, who was their glory; and who always did them good, giving them cause to glory in him. |
8 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.
4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
20 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.