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Ieremia 32:18
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
showest: Exodus 20:5, Exodus 20:6, Exodus 34:7, Numbers 14:18, Deuteronomy 5:9, Deuteronomy 5:10, Deuteronomy 7:9, Deuteronomy 7:10
recompensest: Joshua 7:24-26, 2 Samuel 21:1-9, 1 Kings 14:9, 1 Kings 14:10, 1 Kings 16:1-3, 1 Kings 21:21-24, 2 Kings 9:26, Matthew 23:32-36, Matthew 27:25
the Great: Genesis 49:24, Deuteronomy 7:21, Deuteronomy 10:17, Nehemiah 1:5, Psalms 50:1, Psalms 145:3-6, Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 10:21, Isaiah 57:15, Habakkuk 1:12
the Lord: Jeremiah 10:16, Jeremiah 31:35
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 3:24 - thy greatness Psalms 79:12 - render Psalms 103:8 - merciful Jeremiah 10:6 - thou Jeremiah 33:2 - the Lord Daniel 2:45 - the great
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou showest lovingkindness unto thousands,.... Not to thousands of persons only, but to a thousand generations, even such that love, fear, and serve him; see Exodus 20:6; this is very properly added, for the further strengthening of faith; for though the omnipotence of God assures us that there is nothing but what he can do, yet it gives us no certain encouragement he will do this, or that, or the other, in a favourable and gracious manner; but this his loving kindness, experienced by a multitude of persons in all ages, gives reason to hope for:
and recompensest the iniquities of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; it is added in the decalogue, from whence these words are taken, "of them that hate me", Exodus 20:5; and here the Targum adds,
"when they go on to sin after them;''
when they imitate their fathers in their wickedness, and commit the same sins they have done, and continue in them; wherefore, having tilled up the measure of their fathers' sins, they receive a just and full recompence of them into their bosom; which denotes both the certainty of it and the fulness of it: the prophet formed in his mind just notions and ideas of the divine Being, as being not only gracious and merciful, but holy, just, and righteous; and it may be he strikes at the Jews, who might complain of God, as they sometimes did, for being punished for their fathers' sins, as if they themselves were innocent and guiltless:
the Great, the Mighty God, the Lord of hosts [is] his name: "great" in all the perfections of his nature, and greatly to be praised, loved, and feared; "mighty" to do whatsoever he pleases; and who, agreeably to his name, has all the hosts and armies of heaven and earth at his command; and what is it that he cannot do?
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Recompensest - The recompence is placed in the bosom, because, in the East, the garments are so arranged as to form a pocket there. Thus then, men must receive and carry with them God’s requital for their deeds.