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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 2:1 - 2:1
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Jer 2:1-37. Expostulation with the Jews, reminding them of their former devotedness, and God’s consequent favor, and a denunciation of God’s coming judgments for their idolatry.
Probably in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah (Jer 1:2; compare Jer 3:6, “also ... in ... days of Josiah”). The warning not to rely as they did on Egypt (Jer 2:18), was in accordance with Josiah’s policy, who took part with Assyria and Babylon against Egypt (2Ki 23:29). Jeremiah, doubtless, supported the reformation begun by Josiah, in the previous year (the twelfth of his reign), and fully carried out in the eighteenth.