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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 2:30 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 2:30 |
King James |
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. |
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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] |
(Jer 5:3; Jer 6:29; Isa 1:5; Isa 9:13).
your children--that is, your people, you.
your . . . sword . . . devoured . . . prophets-- (Ch2 36:16; Neh 9:26; Mat 23:29, Mat 23:31). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Your own sword hath detoured your prophets - An allusion probably to Manasseh Kg2 21:16. Death was the usual fate of the true prophet Neh 9:26; Mat 23:37. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Children - Your inhabitants in every city, they being frequently called the children of such a city. Correction - Instruction: though they were corrected, yet they would not be instructed. Your sword - You have been so far from receiving instruction, that you have, by the sword, and other ways of destruction, murdered those that I have sent to reprove you. |
31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.