Study 2 From the Book of
Jeremiah is: Jeremiah 2: 1 – 3:5
A review of Israel’s backslidings from the beginning.
1.
According to this section, what are the components of
backsliding? Compare Israel’s beginnings with her later condition. Is any of
this story true of you? Cf. Gal. 5:7.
2.
2:12, 13. ‘Living’ water means fresh water from an ever-flowing
spring. Cf. 6:7; Jn. 4:13, 14. What do the ‘fountain of living waters and
the ‘broken cisterns’ stand for in spiritual experience? Do you take as serious
a view of backsliding as God does?
3.
What evil results does Jeremiah say have already followed from
the nation’s forgetfulness of God?
Notes
1.
2:10, ‘Kedar’ was a tribe east of Jordan. The verse means
‘search from east to west…’
2.
2:16. ‘Memphis’ and ‘Tahpanhes’: cities of Egypt.
3.
2:25. ‘Do not run thy foot bare, and thy throat dry in the eager
pursuit of strange God (Driver).
4.
3:4. An allusion probably to the feigned penitence of many at
the time of Josiah’s reform. Cf. 3:10; 2
Ch. 34:33.
