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SURELY AS - Rather: “Just as.”...
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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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JEREMIAH 3:19 TO JEREMIAH 4:4. A DIALOGUE OF YAHWEH'S GRACE. This
directly continues Jeremiah 3:5, the I of Jeremiah 3:19 being
emphatically contras
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HUSBAND. guide, or friend, as in Jeremiah 3:4....
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Jehovah would desire to treat His people as sons in the matter of
inheritance. Their conduct precludes this....
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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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Jeremiah 3:19 to Jeremiah 4:4. The invitation includes the whole
nation, on a like condition
This section should follow immediately on Jeremiah 3:5. See introd.
note on...
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_O house of Israel_ Israel as including Judah....
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D. The Blessings of Repentance Jeremiah 3:15-22 a
TRANSLATION
(15) And I will give you shepherds according to My heart who shall
feed you with knowledge and wisdom. (16) And it shall come to pass
whe...
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Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye
dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
SURELY - rather, But.
HUSBAND - literally, friend....
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3:20 companion, (l-9) Or 'lover,' as ver. 1....
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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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SURELY AS A WIFE... — In the midst of the bright vision of the
future there comes unbidden the thought of the dark present: the
faithless wife is not yet restored to her true friend and husband. Her
g...
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אָכֵ֛ן בָּגְדָ֥ה אִשָּׁ֖ה מֵ רֵעָ֑הּ
כֵּ֣ן בּ
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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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Surely [as] a wife treacherously departeth from her (t) husband, so
have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the
LORD.
(t) The Hebrew word signifies a friend or companion, and he...
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A difficulty here seemeth to have arisen in the views of such
unspeakable mercy; how shall the Lord, consistent with his divine
perfections, take home to his favor sinners so ungracious? And none
but...
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He confirms the first clause of the preceding verse: for he had said
that it could hardly be that the Jews would recover what they had
lost, and be formed again a new people; and he shews the reason,...
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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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SURELY AS A WIFE TREACHEROUSLY DEPARTETH FROM HER HUSBAND,.... Or,
"her friend" i; who loves her, takes care of her, and provides for
her, and goes after another man, and cohabits with him; which is a...
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Surely [as] a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have
ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
Ver. 20. _Surely as a treacherous wife, &c._] This ye have done...
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_Surely, as a wife treacherously departeth_, &c. This may be rendered,
_As a woman is not faithful to her husband_, or, _her friend_, as the
Hebrew רעה signifies. Here God returns to the carnal Israel...
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Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, forsaking
the companion of her youth, SO HAVE YE DEALT TREACHEROUSLY WITH ME, O
HOUSE OF ISRAEL, SAITH THE LORD. Upon this final accusation o...
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THE CALL TO RETURN...
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HUSBAND:
_ Heb._ friend...
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12-20 See God's readiness to pardon sin, and the blessings reserved
for gospel times. These words were proclaimed toward the north; to
Israel, the ten tribes, captive in Assyria. They are directed ho...
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Jeremiah 3:20 Surely H403 wife H802 treacherously H898 (H8804) husband
H7453 treacherously H898 (H8804) house H1004 Is
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Jeremiah 3:12. Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say,
Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause
mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LO...
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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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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 16:15; Hosea 3:1; Hosea 5:7; Hosea 6:7; Isaiah 48:8;...