Teks -- Jeremiah 2:7 (NET)

2:7 I brought you into a fertile land so you could enjoy its fruits and its rich bounty. But when you entered my land, you defiled it; you made the land I call my own loathsome to me.

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Wesley: Jer 2:7 - My land

Consecrated to my name; by your idols and many other abominations.

JFB: Jer 2:7 - plentiful

Literally, "a land of Carmel," or "well-cultivated land": a garden land, in contrast to the "land of deserts" (Jer 2:6).

JFB: Jer 2:7 - defiled

By idolatries (Jdg 2:10-17; Psa 78:58-59; Psa 106:38).

JFB: Jer 2:7 - you . . . ye

Change to the second person from the third, "they" (Jer 2:6), in order to bring home the guilt to the living generation.

Clarke: Jer 2:7 - And I brought you into a plentiful country

And I brought you into a plentiful country - The land of Canaan

Clarke: Jer 2:7 - My land

My land - The particular property of God, which he gave to them as an inheritance, they being his peculiar people.

Calvin: Jer 2:7 - That ye might eat its fruit and its abundance;

He afterwards adds, And I brought you in, etc. Here Jeremiah introduces God as the speaker; for God had, as with his hand stretched forth, brought in the children of Abraham into the possession of the promised land, which they did not get, as it is said in Psa 44:3, by their own power and by their own sword; for though they had to fight with many enemies, yet it was God that made them victorious. He could then truly say, that they did not otherwise enter the land than under his guidance; inasmuch as he had opened a way and passage for them, and subdued and put to flight their enemies, that they might possess the heritage promised to them. I brought you in, he says, into the land, into Carmel Some consider this to be the name of a place; and no doubt there was the mount Carmel, so called on account of its great fertility. As then its name was given to it because it was so fertile, it is nothing strange that Jeremiah compares the land of Israel to Carmel. Some will have the preposition כ , c a ph, to be understood, “I have brought you into a land like Carmel.” But there is no need laboriously to turn in all directions the Prophet’s words. It is, as I think, a common noun, meaning fruitful, and used here to shew that the Israelites had been brought by God’s hand into a fertile land; for its fertility is everywhere celebrated, both in the Law and in the Prophets. ³¹

That ye might eat its fruit and its abundance; that is, “I wished you to enjoy the large and rich produce of the land.” By these words God intimates that the Israelites ought to have been induced by such allurements cordially to serve him; for by such liberal treatment he kindly invited them to himself. The greater, then, the bounty of God towards the people, the greater was the indignity offered by their defection, when they despised the various and abounding blessings of God.

Hence he adds, And ye have polluted my land, ³² and mine heritage have ye made an abomination; as though he had said, “This is the reward by which my bounty towards you has been compensated. I indeed gave you this land, but on this condition, that ye serve me faithfully in it: but ye have polluted it.” He calls it his own land, as though he had said, that he had so given the land to the Israelites, that he remained still the lord of it as a proprietor, though he granted the occupation of it to them. He hence shews that they impiously abused his bounty, in polluting that land which was sacred to his name. For the same purpose he calls it his heritage, as if he said that they possessed the land by an hereditary right, and yet the heritage belonged to their Father. They ought, therefore, to have considered, that they had entered into the land, because it had been given to Abraham and to his children for an heritage, — by whom? By God, who was the fountain of this bounty. The more detestable, then, was their ingratitude, when they made the heritage of God an abomination It follows —

TSK: Jer 2:7 - brought // a plentiful country // ye defiled

brought : Num 13:27, Num 14:7, Num 14:8; Deu 6:10,Deu 6:11, Deu 6:18, Deu 8:7-9, Deu 11:11, Deu 11:12; Neh 9:25; Eze 20:6

a plentiful country : or, the land of Carmel

ye defiled : Jer 3:1, Jer 3:9, Jer 16:18; Lev 18:24-28; Num 35:33, Num 35:34; Deu 21:23; Psa 78:58, Psa 78:59; Psa 106:38, Psa 106:39; Eze 36:17; Mic 2:10

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Poole: Jer 2:7 - Plentiful country // land of Carmel // To eat the fruit thereof and the goodness // My land // Mine heritage

Plentiful country Heb.

land of Carmel Isa 29:17 ; understand Canaan, Num 13:27 : See Poole "Isa 35:2" .

To eat the fruit thereof and the goodness to enjoy all the blessing of it.

My land i.e. consecrated to my name, Lev 25:23 ; and this you have defiled by going a whoring after your idols, Jer 3:1 , and many other abominations, Psa 106:29,35,37-39 .

Mine heritage in the same sense that it is said in the foregoing clause my land, and which you received from me as your heritage, the place that I chose for my church’ s present habitation, and earnest of their future heavenly one.

Haydock: Jer 2:7 - Carmel

Carmel. That is, a fruitful, plentiful land. (Challoner) (Worthington) ---

All Palestine is thus designated. (Menochius)

Gill: Jer 2:7 - 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 // that made mine heritage an abomination

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, Deu 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, Jos 24:13,

but when ye entered ye 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.