John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"And I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination." — Jeremiah 2:7 (ASV)
And I brought you into a plentiful country
"Into the land of Carmel", as in the Hebrew text; that is, "into the land of Israel, which was planted as Carmel," as the Targum paraphrases it; with wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, pomegranates, and olives; a land flowing with milk and honey, (Deuteronomy 8:8), so Ben Melech.
to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof
of vineyards and oliveyards, which they had not planted, and for which they had never laboured, (Joshua 24:13):
but when you entered you defiled my land
which the Lord had chosen above all lands, where he would have a temple built for his worship, and where he would cause his Shechinah or glorious Majesty to dwell; but this they defiled by their sins and transgressions, and particularly by their idolatry, as follows:
that made mine heritage an abomination
by devoting it to the worship of idols, as the Targum paraphrases it.