Jeremiah 2:7 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 2:7

I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah (420)

(Verse 7) And I led you into the land of Carmel, that you may eat its fruit and its goodness; and when you entered, you polluted my land and made my inheritance an abomination. For the labor of a very hard journey, I gave you abundance of all things. Indeed, Carmel, which is called Chermel in Hebrew, signifies this, and in our language it means the knowledge of circumcision.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

I brought you into a land of Carmel (so the word is); Carmel was a place of extraordinary fruitfulness, and Canaan was as one great fruitful field, Deut. viii. 7 . [5.] God gave them the means of knowledge and grace, and communion with him; this is implied,

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וָאָבִ֤יא	va.'a.Vi'	and I brought	H935 →
אֶתְכֶם֙	'et.Khem	<obj.> you	H853 →
אֶל־	'el-	into	H413 →
אֶ֣רֶץ	'E.retz	[the] land of	H776 →
הַכַּרְמֶ֔ל	ha.kar.Mel	the orchard	H3759 →
לֶאֱכֹ֥ל	le.'e.Khol	to eat	H398 →
פִּרְיָ֖הּ	pir.Yah	fruit its	H6529 →
וְטוּבָ֑הּ	ve.tu.Vah	and good thing[s] its	H2898 →
וַתָּבֹ֙אוּ֙	va.ta.Vo.'u	and you came	H935 →
וַתְּטַמְּא֣וּ	va.te.ta.me.'U	and you made unclean	H2930 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
אַרְצִ֔י	'ar.Tzi	land my	H776 →
וְנַחֲלָתִ֥י	ve.na.cha.la.Ti	and inheritance my	H5159 →
שַׂמְתֶּ֖ם	sam.Tem	you made	H7760 →
לְתוֹעֵבָֽה׃	le.to.'e.Vah	into an abomination	H8441 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 3:1
“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 24:1–4
  If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her…
Through
Jeremiah 16:18
And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”
leads to
- Numbers 35:33–34
  Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 40:2
  “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her…
Through
Numbers 13:27
And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!
leads to
- Exodus 3:8
  I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and…
- Exodus 13:5
  And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and…
- Exodus 3:17
  And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
- Exodus 33:3
  Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”
Through
Ezekiel 36:17
“Son of man, when the people of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds. Their behavior before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman’s impurity.
leads to
- Micah 2:10
  Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction!

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Jeremiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Jeremiah