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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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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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Jehovah would desire to treat His people as sons in the matter of
inheritance. Their conduct precludes this....
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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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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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God hereby telling her what she had formerly been, endeavours to
engage her to what she ought to be, namely, considering her former
unfaithfulness in time past, how she ought to carry it for the futur...
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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;...