Jeremías 17:2

2 Como ellos se acuerdan de sus hijos, así se acuerdan de sus altares y de sus Aseras junto a los árboles frondosos, en las altas colinas.

Jeremías 17:2 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 17:2

Whilst their children remember their altars
Which is a further proof of their long continuance in idolatrous practices, and a fresh witness against them; they trained up their children in them; who, when grown up, could not forget them, but imitated them, and went on in the same evil ways. Some render the words, "as they remember their children, so they remember their altars ^F9, and their groves, by the green trees upon the high hills"; they had the same love to their idols, and the worship of them, as they had to their children. This sense is received by Kimchi ^F11; yea, they had a greater affection for their idols than for their children; since they made their children pass through the fire to Moloch, and burnt their sons and their daughters to Baal. The Targum renders it, "their groves under every green tree": see ( Jeremiah 2:20 ) ( 3:6 ) . Kimchi and Ben Melech connect green trees not with groves but with altars; and take the sense to be, that their altars were by green trees; since groves and green trees were the same, and which altars also were upon high hills.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 (Mtwxbzm Mhynb rkzk) "sicut recordantur filiorum suorum, ita recordantur ararum suarum"; so some in Vatablus.
F11 So in T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 63. 2. & Gloss in ib.

Jeremías 17:2 In-Context

1 El pecado de Judá está escrito con cincel de hierro, con punta de diamante está grabado sobre la tabla de su corazón y en los cuernos de sus altares.

2 Como ellos se acuerdan de sus hijos, así se acuerdan de sus altares y de sus Aseras junto a los árboles frondosos, en las altas colinas.

3 Oh montaña mía en el campo, tus riquezas y todos tus tesoros entregaré al saqueo, a causa del pecado de tus lugares altos en todo tu territorio.

4 Y por tu causa harás que se pierda la heredad que yo te di; te haré servir a tus enemigos en una tierra que no conoces; porque habéis prendido un fuego en mi ira que arderá para siempre.

5 Así dice el SEÑOR: Maldito el hombre que en el hombre confía, y hace de la carne su fortaleza, y del SEÑOR se aparta su corazón.

Footnotes

• [a] I.e., smbolos de madera de una deidad femenina