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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 3:17

Verse Jeremiah 3:17. They shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord] The new Jerusalem, the universal Church of Christ, shall be God's throne: and wherever he is acknowledged as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, there God sits on his throne, and holds his court.

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See also Jeremiah 3:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE THRONE OF THE LORD - Yahweh’s throne shall not be the ark, but Jerusalem, i. e., the Christian Church Revelation 21:2; Galatians 4:26. TO JERUSALEM - The Septuagint and Syriac are probably right...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL'S SIN LESS THAN JUDAH'S. This passage interrupts the continuity of Jeremiah 3:19 with Jeremiah 3:5 (note also the interruptive introductory formula, Jeremiah 3:6), and seems to be a separate pr...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AT THAT TIME. Referring to the future Restoration. CALL JERUSALEM, &C. Compare Psalms 87:2; Isaiah 60:1; Isaiah 65:18; Isaiah 66:7;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Dr. (with Co. and others) points out that here the word "Israel" is used in its restricted sense for the ten tribes, whereas in Jeremiah 2:1 to Jeremiah 3:5 it meant the people as a whole, and he infe...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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)...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Much here is probably a later editorial insertion (see Intr. iv. § 8), for (i) the picture (Jeremiah 3:14) of a very limited number of the captives returning from Assyria, and settling in Jerusalem, w...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _all the nations_ Gentile peoples shall be gathered into the Church of God, which shall thus become Universal. But see introd. note on Jeremiah 3:14. _stubbornness_ a favourite word in this Book....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagina...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    3:17 to (h-21) Or 'because of.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    IMAGINATION] RV 'stubbornness.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEY SHALL CALL JERUSALEM THE THRONE OF THE LORD. — Up to Jeremiah’s time that title, “the throne of God,” though the language of the Old Testament had referred it to the “heavens” (Psalms 11:4; Psalm...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בָּ † עֵ֣ת הַ הִ֗יא יִקְרְא֤וּ לִ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    At that time they shall call Jerusalem (r) the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagin...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _All. Many might embrace the Jewish religion. But the predictions of the prophets on this head, were not verified, till the gospel was preached. (Calmet) --- Then many embraced the faith: several capt...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! doth not your heart go forth, At the reading of those blessed promises, with an earnestness of desire, that the Lord would fulfil them, and give his people pastors indeed according to his own...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE SACRED METROPOLIS_ ‘They shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it.’ Jeremiah 3:17 Jerusalem is now to be in relation to the nations. I. ALL J...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    We now understand more clearly what I have already said, — that the Prophet promises here that there would be concord between the ten tribes and the kingdom of Judah, when both returned from exile; as...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AT THAT TIME THEY SHALL CALL JERUSALEM THE THRONE OF THE LORD,.... That is, the Gospel church, the heavenly Jerusalem, the Jerusalem above, that is free, and the mother of us all; which is Christ's ki...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imaginat...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _At that time_ Of _reformation_, διορθωσεως, _emendation_, (Hebrews 9:10,) when things should be put into a better state by the coming of the Messiah; _they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CALL TO RETURN...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    At that time, in the Messianic period, THEY SHALL CALL JERUSALEM THE THRONE OF THE LORD, where He revealed Himself to His people, but no longer in a cloud and in a pillar of fire; AND ALL THE NATIONS,...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    IMAGINATION: Or, stubbornness...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEY SHALL CALL JERUSALEM THE THRONE OF THE LORD; instead of the ark, whereon was the mercy-seat, now the church, typified by Jerusalem, GALATIANS 4:26 REVELATION 21:2, shall be the place of God's res...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 3:17 time H6256 Jerusalem H3389 called H7121 (H8799) Throne H3678 LORD H3068 nations H1471 gathered H6960

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The throne of the Lord._ THE CHURCH CHRIST’S THRONE 1. Jerusalem had been of old the throne of God: the symbol of God rested on the ark. Hence called “the city of the Great King.” 2. Jerusalem bec...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 3:17 AT THAT TIME JERUSALEM SHALL BE CALLED THE THRONE OF THE LORD, thereby replacing the symbolic function of the ark. Then ALL NATIONS SHALL GATHER TO IT (to Jerusa

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 10:4; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Deuteronomy 29:29; Ephesians 4:17;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The throne — Instead of the ark, the church typified by Jerusalem, shall be the place of God's residence, where by his spirit he will rule and act in his word and ordinances. Jerusalem — Dwelling in J...

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