UYeremiya 3:2

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

2 Phosa amehlo akho eluqayini ubone; kuphi na apho ungalalwanga khona? Wabahlalela ngasezindleleni, njengomArabhi entlango; walihlambela ilizwe ngokuhenyuza kwakho, nangezinto zakho ezimbi.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lift: Jeremiah 2:23, Ezekiel 8:4-6, Luke 16:23

unto: Jeremiah 2:20, Deuteronomy 12:2, 1 Kings 11:3, 2 Kings 23:13, Ezekiel 16:16, Ezekiel 16:24, Ezekiel 16:25, Ezekiel 20:28

In the: Genesis 38:14, Proverbs 7:11, Proverbs 23:28, Ezekiel 16:24, Ezekiel 16:25

thou hast: Jeremiah 3:1, Jeremiah 3:9, Jeremiah 2:7

Reciprocal: Leviticus 20:5 - whoring Numbers 14:33 - bear Psalms 106:39 - went Proverbs 7:12 - General Proverbs 21:29 - hardeneth Isaiah 24:5 - defiled Isaiah 57:7 - General Isaiah 59:12 - our transgressions Jeremiah 2:29 - will ye plead Jeremiah 2:33 - Why Jeremiah 3:13 - and hast scattered Jeremiah 3:20 - so have Jeremiah 11:13 - For according Jeremiah 11:15 - seeing Jeremiah 13:27 - thine adulteries Jeremiah 14:10 - have they Jeremiah 16:18 - they have defiled Ezekiel 8:5 - lift Ezekiel 21:24 - your transgressions Ezekiel 36:17 - they defiled Micah 2:10 - because Zechariah 5:7 - is Acts 2:11 - Arabians

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lift up thine eyes unto the high places,.... Where idols were set and worshipped; either places naturally high, as hills and mountains, which were chosen for this service; or high places, artificially made and thrown up for this purpose; see

2 Kings 17:9, Jarchi interprets the word

שפים of "rivulets of water"; and so the Targum, where also idolatry was committed:

and see where thou hast not been lien with; see if there is a hill or mountain, or any high place, where thou hast not committed idolatry; the thing was so notorious, and the facts and instances so many, there was no denying it; every hill and mountain witnessed to their idolatry; to which agrees the Targum,

"see where thou hast not joined thyself to worship idols:''

in the ways hast thou sat for them; for the idolaters, waiting for them, to join with them in their idolatries; as harlots used to sit by the wayside to meet with their lovers, to be picked up by them, or to offer themselves to them as prostitutes, Genesis 38:14 which shows that these people were not drawn into idolatry by the temptations and solicitations of others: but they put themselves in the way of it, and solicited it, and others to join with them in it:

as the Arabian in the wilderness; who dwelt in tents in the wilderness, and sat by the wayside to trade with those that passed by; or else lay in wait in desert and by places to rob all that passed by them; and so the Vulgate Latin version renders it,

in the ways thou didst sit, expecting them as a thief in the wilderness; the Arabians being noted for thieves and robbers. The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it,

as a crow, or raven, of the desert; the same word signifying a "raven" and an "Arabian": see 1 Kings 17:4:

and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness; the land of Judea, where idolatry was so openly and frequently committed, which brought a load of guilt upon it, and exposed it to the wrath and judgments of God; so the Targum,

"thou hast made the land guilty with thine idols and with thy wickedness.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These words are not the language of consolation to the conscience-stricken, but of vehement expostulation with hardened sinners. They prove, therefore, the truth of the interpretation put upon the preceding verse.

As the Arabian ... - The freebooting propensities of the Bedouin had passed in ancient times into a proverb. As eager as the desert-tribes were for plunder, so was Israel for idolatry.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 3:2. As the Arabian in the wilderness — They were as fully intent on the practice of their idolatry as the Arab in the desert is in lying in wait to plunder the caravans. Where they have not cover to lie in ambush, they scatter themselves about, and run hither and thither, raising themselves up on their saddles to see if they can discover, by smoke, dust, or other token, the approach of any travellers.