The people which were left of the sword - A promise of the restoration of the ten tribes to their land.
The wilderness - Either the desert which lay between Assyria and Palestine; or more probably an allusion to the wilderness of Mount Sinai.
Found grace ... rest - Rather, “shall certainly find grace; I will go to give Israel rest.
Verse Jeremiah 31:2. _THE PEOPLE_ WHICH WERE _LEFT OF THE SWORD_] Those of the _ten tribes_ that had escaped death by the sword of the Assyrians. _FOUND GRACE IN THE WILDERNESS_] The place of their...
CHAPTER 31 _ 1. The home-going of the nation (Jeremiah 31:1) _ 2. The joy of salvation (Jeremiah 31:10) 3. The preceding tribulation, sorrow and repentance (Jeremiah 31:15) 4. Assur
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 f...
WHEN. WENT. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 3.Numbers 10:33.Deuteronomy 1:33; Deuteronomy 1:33). App-92....
Jeremiah 31:1. See introd. summary to the section. Jeremiah 31:1, virtually a repetition of Jeremiah 30:22, should be joined to the previous ch....
Gi., Du. and Co. agree in considering Jeremiah 31:1 as, in their main substance, a genuine and early utterance of Jeremiah. The language suggests a date approximately that of ch. 3. Those of the North...
THE PEOPLE WHICH WERE LEFT, &C.— The first-fruits of salvation among the Jews are here specified, and that _wilderness_ is meant, in which the Author of grace and his forerunner made their first appea...
H. THE BLESSINGS OF RESTORATION Jeremiah 31:2-40 In this second major section of the Book of Consolation the focus is upon the blessings which those who return from exile will enjoy. Both Israel, the...
Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. THE PEOPLE ... FOUND GRACE IN THE WILDERNESS. Upon the "gr...
1-22. Jeremiah speaks of the restoration first of Israel (Ephraim, Jeremiah 31:2), then of Judah (Jeremiah 31:23.). Those who survive the sufferings of the captivity are promised a safe journey home....
THE PEOPLE WHICH WERE LEFT OF THE SWORD... — The main thought of this and the next verse is that the past experience of God’s love is a pledge or earnest for the future. Israel of old had “found grace...
כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה מָצָ֥א חֵן֙ בַּ †...
CHAPTER XXXI RESTORATION II THE NEW ISRAEL Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1;...
15-34, AN EVERLASTING LOVE Jeremiah 31:1-9 It is all-inclusive: _all the families of Israel_. It is patient under provocation: during forty years it bore with Israel. It has a drawing-power which ove...
Continuing, the Prophet dealt with the issues of restoration. He first described the restoration of the city. After affirming the ancient love of Jehovah for His people, he foretold the building of th...
Thus saith the LORD, The people [who were] (b) left by the sword found grace in the wilderness; (c) [even] Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. (b) Who were delivered from the cruelty of Pharaoh...
_Desert. From which the former inhabitants had been driven, (4 Kings xvii. 6, 24.; Calmet) or, as those under Moses were favoured, (Haydock) so shall the captives. (Grotius) --- Septuagint, "I found h...
The sword probably hath an allusion to the sorrows of Egypt, from whence the Lord brought the people out, into the wilderness, and then brought them to rest in Canaan....
I omit here any remarks on the first verse; for it was explained in connection, with the 22d verse of the last chapter (Jeremiah 30:22). The verb הלוך _eluk, _in the second verse, is in the infinitive...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 31 AND 32. But it would not be Judah only, to whom the prophecies of Jeremiah were addressed, that should be restored-all the families of Israel should enjoy...
THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE PEOPLE [WHICH WERE] LEFT OF THE SWORD,.... Which were not consumed by the sword of Pharaoh, who perished not through his cruel edicts, and by his sword, when drawn at the Red...
Thus saith the LORD, The people [which were] left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; [even] Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. Ver. 2. _The people that were left of the sword._] Of Ph...
_The people that were left of the sword_ That sword of Pharaoh with which he cut off the male children as soon as they were born, and that sword with which he threatened to cut them off when he pursue...
THE DECREE OF RESTORATION AND ITS EXECUTION...
Thus saith the Lord, The people which were: left of the sword found grace in the wilderness, that is, those who escaped the sword of Pharaoh by the Lord's deliverance were objects of His merciful inte...
1-9 God assures his people that he will again take them into covenant relation to himself. When brought very low, and difficulties appear, it is good to remember that it has been so with the church f...
God confirmeth the aforementioned promises, and his people's hope and faith in them, by minding them of what he had anciently done for this very people. Though God did, in the journey which the Israel...
Jeremiah 31:2 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 people H5971 survived H8300 sword H2719 Found H4672 (H8804) grace...
AS THEY WERE OF OLD DELIVERED FROM EGYPT, SO ISRAEL ARE NOW AGAIN TO BE REDEEMED AND DELIVERED, SO THAT THEY MIGHT FIND REST BECAUSE OF YHWH'S LOVE FOR THEM (JEREMIAH 31:2). The reference back to the...
Jeremiah 31:1. _At the same time, faith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people._ How divinely he talks, as only God can talk These people had rejected...
Jeremiah 31:1. At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace...
Jeremiah 31:1. _At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people._ During the Israelites' banishment to Babylon, God's covenant with them...
CONTENTS: Israel in the last days. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God will again at the end of the age take Israel into new covenant relation with Himself, from which they have for hundreds of years b...
Jeremiah 31:1. _At the same time,_ namely, as the last words of the preseding chapter, in the latter day. Here the subject is glorious, and the language sublime. Jeremiah 31:3. _I have loved thee with...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 31:1 This chapter includes the most famous passage in Jeremiah 1:1, the promise of a new covenant (vv....
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 31:2 Israel’s exile experience mirrors the exodus era. In both, those who escaped death FOUND GRACE and REST in the desert. After exile, ISRAEL will again follow
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Vide_ on chap. 30. These two Chapter s form an unbroken prophecy, “a triumphal hymn of Israel’s salvation.” The former chapter pledges the recovery from captivity of bo...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 31:1 The promise of Jeremiah 30:22 is expressly declared to apply to both sections of the nation. Jehovah thus solemnly declares his purpose of mercy, and dwells with special Mad...
This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Jeremiah 31:1-40. Now there are those who say that God has cast off Israel as a nation forever, and that all of the blessings, all of the covenants and all of...
Deuteronomy 1:30; Deuteronomy 1:33; Deuteronomy 12:9; Deuteronomy 2:7;...
To rest — In Canaan....