The Lord tells of His affection for Israel. But] rather,'and.' How] i.e. In what honourable position? The children] the nations of the earth, all of them God's children, as created by Him.
22-25. An acceptable prayer of repentance.
Verse Jeremiah 3:19. _HOW SHALT I PUT THEE AMONG THE CHILDREN_] As if he had said, How can ye be accounted a holy seed, who are polluted? How can ye be united to the people of God, who walk in the pat...
BUT I - (emphatic). “And I.” The emphasis lies in the abundant goodness of God contrasted with Israel’s waywardness. HOW ...? - Rather, How ...! i. e., How gloriously! With what honor will I place th...
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 ...
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
CHILDREN. sons. A PLEASANT LAND. Hebrew. land of desire: i.e. to be desired....
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)...
_shall … nations_ rightly mg. _would … nations!_Not a question, but the expression of a wish. _children_ SONS. Cp. Exodus 4:22. The point is that as daughters could not as a rule inherit (Numbers 27:1...
Jehovah would desire to treat His people as sons in the matter of inheritance. Their conduct precludes this....
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...
DISCOURSE: 1034 THE TRUE SOURCE OF SALVATION Jeremiah 3:19. _I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? And said, Thou...
BUT I SAID, &C.— _And when I said, How shall I place thee among sons, and give unto thee the land of desire, the inheritance of the glory of the hosts of nations? Then said I, Thou shalt call me, My F...
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...
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from...
3:19 of (i-27) Or 'the most lovely inheritance of.' me. (k-46) Lit. 'from after me.'...
BUT I SAID. — Better, _And I said._ There is no contrast with what precedes. The speaker is, of course, Jehovah. The _How shall I put thee!_ is an exclamation rather than a question, the utterance of...
וְ אָנֹכִ֣י אָמַ֗רְתִּי אֵ֚יךְ אֲשִׁיתֵ֣ךְ בַּ †...
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...
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...
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...
_Gentiles, which they all covet, or to which they are invited in the Church. (Calmet) --- Me. On these conditions thou shalt be restored. (Haydock)_...
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...
It is not my purpose to mention all the expositions of this verse; but it is enough to shew what seems to be the meaning of the Prophet. Whenever I touch on opinions which I disapprove, this I feel co...
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...
BUT I SAID,.... Within himself, in the thoughts of his heart, when he took up a resolution concerning their conversion, open adoption, and return to their own land, as a symbol of the eternal inherita...
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from m...
_But I said_ Namely, within myself, God is here represented as deliberating with himself, after the manner of men, in what way he might, consistently with his divine attributes, receive the Jewish peo...
But I said, the Lord here beginning His statement of the manner in which Israel may come to the knowledge of her sins. HOW SHALL I PUT THEE AMONG THE CHILDREN, adopting those into His family once more...
THE CALL TO RETURN...
PLEASANT LAND: _ Heb._ land of desire FROM ME: _ Heb._ from after me...
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...
HOW SHALL I words that speak either, first, God's putting them to their own thoughts, how they could think he should bring such a perfidious people as they were into the land which he had promised; el...
Jeremiah 3:19 said H559 (H8804) put H7896 (H8799) children H1121 give H5414 (H8799) pleasant H2532 land...
A BRIEF GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EVERLASTING KINGDOM (JEREMIAH 3:12). Having established that Judah was even more guilty than Israel YHWH now breaks into the message of gloom by demo...
Jeremiah 3:19 I. The Creator, the Preserver, the Benefactor, the Lover, of us all must be, in no common sense, the Father of us all. But infinitely nearer are those in whose hearts the grace of God ha...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_How shall I put thee among the children._ PUT AMONG THE CHILDREN I. A most delightful condition of privilege and enjoyment. 1. A real and endearing relation, not a mere figure or shadow. Though al...
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...
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...
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...
1 John 3:1; 1 Peter 1:3; 1 Peter 1:4; 2 Corinthians 6:17; 2 C
Put — Esteem thee as my child, 'till thou give some proof, of thy repentance. Give thee — How shall I put thee into possession of that pleasant land. Of nations — Great hosts and multitudes of nations...