Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
pass over the isles—rather, "cross over to the isles."
Chittim . . . Kedar—that is, the heathen nations, west and east. Go where you will, you cannot find an instance of any heathen nation forsaking their own for other gods. Israel alone does this. Yet the heathen gods are false gods; whereas Israel, in forsaking Me for other gods, forsake their "glory" for unprofitable idols.
Chittim—Cyprus, colonized by Phœnicians, who built in it the city of Citium, the modern Chitti. Then the term came to be applied to all maritime coasts of the Mediterranean, especially Greece (Numbers 24:24; Isaiah 23:1; Daniel 11:30).
Kedar—descended from Ishmael; the Bedouins and Arabs, east of Palestine.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 2:10:
Jeremiah 18:13
Daniel 11:30
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