JEREMIAH 27-29. Certain linguistic peculiarities (_e.g._ the incorrect spelling, Nebuchadnezzar) suggest that these three Chapter s may have circulated as a separate pamphlet, _e.g._ in Babylon. They deal with the rebuke of false hopes concerning a speedy return from exile. JEREMIAH 30-31. THE FUTU... [ Continue Reading ]
This prophecy of the restoration of the northern kingdom may belong, like ch. 3, to Jeremiah's early period. The northern Israelites shall be gathered from exile (the wilderness). Yahweh will appear from Zion (Jeremiah 31:3, _mg._ 1 ;_ cf._ Jeremiah 51:50), declaring His enduring love (Hosea 11:4),... [ Continue Reading ]
JEREMIAH 31:7 (suggestive of Deutero-Isaiah). Let there be joy that Yahweh hath saved His people, for He will gather all to Palestine (hither, Jeremiah 31:8), and they will come penitently to the Divine provision made for their need (Jeremiah 31:9 _mg.; cf._ Isaiah 49:10), made as for Yahweh's first... [ Continue Reading ]
Jeremiah hears Rachel (the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, Genesis 30:24; Genesis 35:16 ff.) weeping at (her grave near) Ramah, for her children, the northern exiles. He bids her refrain, in the certainty of their restoration. Their penitence is described (Jeremiah 31:18 f.). Yahweh expresses wonder... [ Continue Reading ]
At the restoration of Judah there shall be joyous acclamation of the city and the Temple (Zechariah 8:3); agricultural and pastoral life shall be resumed in peace; the thirsty and the hungry (_cf._ Jeremiah 31:14) shall be satisfied. Jeremiah 31:26 appears to be a gloss, which hints that these brigh... [ Continue Reading ]
Yahweh will replenish the scanty populations of both kingdoms, and will establish them (for the terms, _cf._ Jeremiah 1:10). In the future, individual responsibility for sin will replace the old doctrine of corporate personality, by which children suffered for the sins of their fathers (_e.g._ Achan... [ Continue Reading ]
The prophecy of the New Covenant, contained in these verses, may have been written in 586, when the destruction of Jerusalem had suggested that the Old Covenant was cancelled. The Jeremianic authorship of this most important passage has been firmly established by Cornill's arguments against the crit... [ Continue Reading ]
Israel's national existence shall be as permanent as Yahweh's rule of nature (Jeremiah 31:35 f.); it is as impossible for Israel to be rejected as it is for man to comprehend the created world (Jeremiah 31:37). In the future, Jerusalem shall be rebuilt from the NE. to the NW. corner (Zechariah 14:10... [ Continue Reading ]