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Verse Jeremiah 3:11. _BACKSLIDING ISRAEL HATH JUSTIFIED HERSELF
MORE_] She was less offensive in my eyes, and more excusable, than
treacherous Judah. So it is said, Luke 18:14, the humbled _publican_...
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HATH JUSTIFIED HERSELF - Judah had had the benefit of the warning
given by Israel’s example. Both abandon Yahweh’s service for
idolatry, but Israel is simply “apostate,” Judah is also false.
The vers...
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THE CALL TO REPENTANCE AND JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED (3:6-6:30)
CHAPTER 3
_ 1. The contrast between backslidden Israel and treacherous Judah
(Jeremiah 3:6) _
2. The call to return and the promised glory ...
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ISRAEL'S SIN LESS THAN JUDAH'S. This passage interrupts the continuity
of Jeremiah 3:19 with Jeremiah 3:5 (note also the interruptive
introductory formula, Jeremiah 3:6), and seems to be a separate
pr...
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JUSTIFIED HERSELF. Compare Ezekiel 16:51; Ezekiel 16:52....
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Dr. (with Co. and others) points out that here the word "Israel" is
used in its restricted sense for the ten tribes, whereas in Jeremiah
2:1 to Jeremiah 3:5 it meant the people as a whole, and he infe...
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Jeremiah 3:6 to Jeremiah 4:4. Conditional offers of restoration
We may subdivide thus.
(1) Jeremiah 3:6-18. The ten tribes as less guilty than Judah are
invited to repent and return. (2)...
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In spite of (i) greater privileges, (_a_) succession of kings of the
same family, (_b_) the Temple, (_c_) Levites; (ii) the warning example
of Israel, Judah has proved faithless and hypocritical as we...
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DISCOURSE: 1032
COMPARATIVE CRIMINALITY
Jeremiah 3:11. _And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath
justified herself more than treacherous Judah_.
THE subject of comparative criminality i...
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THE BACKSLIDING ISRAEL HATH JUSTIFIED HERSELF— _Backsliding Israel
hath appeared just in comparison of perfidious Judah._ The crimes of
the latter greatly surpassed those of the former. See Ezekiel 16...
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C. The Call to Repentance Jeremiah 3:11-14
TRANSLATION
(11) And the LORD said unto me, More righteous is Backsliding Israel
than Treacherous Judah. (12) Go and call these words to the north and
say,...
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And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified
herself more than treacherous Judah.
JUSTIFIED HERSELF - has been made to appear almost just (i:e.,
comparatively innocent) by the s...
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THE PROPHET SETS FORTH THE SIN OF THE NATION AND POINTS OUT THE
INEVITABLE RESULT (REIGN OF JOSIAH, AND PROBABLY BEFORE THE REFORMS OF
THAT KING: CP. JEREMIAH 3:6)
This section furnishes us with the g...
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JEREMIAH'S THIRD PROPHECY. THE FATE OF THE TEN TRIBES A WARNING TO
JUDAH
In this prophecy, as in the last, idolatry is denounced under the
figure of unfaithfulness to the marriage vow. But as a marke...
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JUSTIFIED HERSELF MORE] for Judah had even more warning than Israel....
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HATH JUSTIFIED HERSELF. — Literally, _hath justified her soul,_ has
put in a better plea in her defence. The _renegade_ was better than
the _traitress._ Even open rebellion was better than hypocrisy,...
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וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֔י צִדְּקָ֥ה
נַפְשָׁ֖הּ...
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CHAPTER III
ISRAEL AND JUDAH: A CONTRAST
Jeremiah 3:6; Jeremiah 4:1
THE first address of our prophet was throughout of a sombre cast, and
the darkness of its close was not relieved by a single ray o...
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PLEADING WITH FAITHLESS CHILDREN
Jeremiah 3:11-25; Jeremiah 4:1-2
The people of the northern kingdom, to whom this appeal is especially
addressed, were more excusable than Judah, because their privil...
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Following the impeachment, the prophet appealed to the people to
return. This appeal commenced with a declaration that Jehovah's love
was greater than man's in that He was willing to receive back the...
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And the LORD said to me, The backsliding Israel hath (n) justified
herself more than treacherous Judah.
(n) Israel has not declared herself as wicked as Judah, who yet has
had more admonitions and ex...
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Nothing can more highly illustrate the riches of grace, than what is
here said, on the subject of divine mercy. Israel was about to go into
Babylon, and there the Prophet is particularly directed to p...
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We now see more clearly for what purpose Jeremiah compared the ten
tribes with the kingdom of Judah; it was done in order to shew that
the Jews, who wished to be deemed far more holy than others, were...
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Chapter 3 has the same character; indeed it is the continuation of the
same address; but it contains details of Israel's and Judah's
behaviour, and proclaims the restoration of Israel by sovereign
goo...
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AND THE LORD SAID UNTO ME,.... To the Prophet Jeremiah, as in Jeremiah
3:6 and at or about the same time:
THE BACKSLIDING ISRAEL HATH JUSTIFIED HERSELF MORE THAN TREACHEROUS
JUDAH; that is, was compa...
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And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified
herself more than treacherous Judah.
Ver. 11. _The backsliding Israel hath justified herself._] That is,
she is less guilty and faulty...
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_And the Lord said unto me_, &c. The case of these sister kingdoms is
here compared, and judgment given upon the comparison. _Israel hath
justified herself more than Judah_ Hebrew, צדקה נפשׁה, _hath
j...
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THE CALL TO RETURN...
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And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified
herself more than treacherous Judah, she was righteous by comparison
with the overwhelming guilt of the latter, who possessed the unusu...
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6-11 If we mark the crimes of those who break off from a religious
profession, and the consequences, we see abundant reason to shun evil
ways. It is dreadful to be proved more criminal than those who...
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Was less vile, hath more to say for herself; Judah's sin being greatly
aggravated compared with Israel, EZEKIEL 16:51, EZEKIEL 23:11. See
LUKE 18:14. For though Israel's sins were more, and their idol...
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Jeremiah 3:11 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Backsliding H4878 Israel
H3478 herself H5315 righteous H6663 (H8765) tre
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YHWH CALLS ON JUDAH TO CONSIDER WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO ISRAEL, HER
NORTHERN NEIGHBOUR, WHEN SHE HAD FAILED TO TURN BACK TO HIM, SOMETHING
THAT JUDAH IS ALSO FAILING TO DO (JEREMIAH 3:6).
YHWH here refer...
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Let us read part of the 3 rd chapter of Jeremiah where God brings a
solemn accusation against the two nations of Israel and Judah because
they forsook the living God, and went after idols neglected hi...
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In this chapter, the sin of God's people is put in the strongest
possible light. The figure used may be even said to be a coarse one,
but man's sin is itself a coarse thing. The thoughts suggested in...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's message concerning the impenitence of Judah.
Encouragement to backsliders to return and repent.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Those will justly be divorced from God tha...
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Jeremiah 3:3. _Therefore the showers,_ of the former and the latter
rain, _have been withheld._ Other prophets make the same remark. God
is not obliged to give luxuriant harvests to furnish feasts to...
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_Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also._
COMPARATIVE CRIMINALITY
I. State this decision of the Lord.
1. Israel, from the time they became a distinct nation, cast off God;
therefore,...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_1. Chronology._ Exact date of
chapter uncertain. It naturally divides itself at Jeremiah 3:5,
although Dahler, Umbriet, and Neuman contend for the unity of the
chapter...
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EXPOSITION
That this chapter (to which the first four verses of Jeremiah 4:1.
ought to have been attached) belongs to the time of Josiah seems to be
proved by Jeremiah 3:6, and the years immediately f...
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They say (Jeremiah 3:1),
That is, in quoting the law and in speaking of the law, Deuteronomy.
If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes
another man's wife, shall he return unto...
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Ezekiel 16:47; Ezekiel 16:51; Ezekiel 16:52; Ezekiel 23:11; Hosea 11