- Is the “word of God” in the opening passages of Jeremiah 2 a sequitur to Jeremiah 1 or does it appear to move in a different direction?
- What is the “youthful period” to which Jeremiah 2:2 makes reference?
- And what is the “wilderness” through which the Israelites followed Divinity?
- And, indeed, if this refers to the move from Egypt to Canaan, is history, as recorded in the “Five Books”, supportive of the conclusion?
- What is the meaning, in Jeremiah 2:3, that Israel is “kodesh” to God and of the attendant phrase “the first of the wheat”?
- In Jeremiah 2:4, is there any difference between the “house of Jacob” and the “families of the house of Israel” or is this in the nature of a hendiadys?
- Does the passage address itself to the auditors or to their ancestors – or to both (Jeremiah 2:5)?
- What historical events are recalled (Jeremiah 2:6) as documenting the Divine concern for B’nai Yisrael?
- The goal was reached when …?
- But what was the result (Jeremiah 2:8)?
- Was the transgression of the Kohanim ritual “maladministration” or theological?
- Who (what) are “Tofsei haTorah”?
- Who are the “shepherds”?
- And was there no prophecy?
- As a consequence, what is (will be) God’s reaction (Jeremiah 2:9)?
- What atypicality of national conduct is reflected in Jeremiah 2:10-11?
- What is the “non-efficacious” (non-yielding) in Jeremiah 2:11?
- In summary (Jeremiah 2:13), what are the two signal evils of “My people”?
- In Jeremiah 2:15, the consequences are set forth. What are they?
- Why the reference in Jeremiah 2:18 to Egypt and Assyria? Is it theological or political?
- What is an “execrable whore” in the context of Jeremiah 2:20?
- The vine in Jeremiah 2:21 refers to…?
- Jeremiah 2:23 cites the essential transgression of Israel. What is it?
- In Jeremiah 2:24, to what is Israel derogatorily compared?
- Are all elements of the Jewish society involved in transgression (Jeremiah 2:26)?
- How numerous are the idolatrous sites (Jeremiah 2:28)?
- What is the “ed-yah” in Jeremiah 2:32?
- And what is the social evil denounced in Jeremiah 2:34?
- Will reliance on Egypt solve the problems of the state (Jeremiah 2:36-37)?
- What will solve Israel’s difficulties?
