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Therefore thus says Yahweh: Ask you now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
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A Uniquely Horrible Sin
Commentators unanimously highlight the shocking nature of Israel's sin. God challenges the people to ask the surrounding pagan nations if any of them have ever abandoned their false gods. The fact that Israel forsook the one true God, the source of life, was an act so unprecedented and unnatural that even idolaters would find it horrifying.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The contrast between the chaste retirement of a virgin and Judah’s eagerness for idolatry serves to heighten the horror at her conduct.
19th Century
Anglican
Ask ye now among the heathen. —The appeal of Jeremiah 2:10-11 is renewed. Judah had not been true, even as heathen nation…
16th Century
Protestant
God shows here that the Jews had become completely beyond reform, for they reached the height of impiety when they were so bold as to reject the sa…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore thus says the Lord This being the case of the people of the Jews, and they so resolutely bent on their own…
Sinners call it liberty to live without restraint, but for a person to be a slave to their lusts is the very worst slavery. They abandoned God for …
13th Century
Catholic
Here, he speaks of the despair of those who rejected his preaching.
First, he mentions their desperation: we have no…
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