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The law forbids a divorced wife's return, yet Jehovah calls: 'Return, thou backsliding Israel.' Faithless Judah is judged worse than backsliding Israel, having watched the north go into exile and learned nothing.

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The law forbids a divorced wife's return, yet Jehovah calls: 'Return, thou backsliding Israel.' Faithless Judah is judged worse than backsliding Israel, having watched the north go into exile and learned nothing. Beyond the pleading stands promise: 'I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding' (3:15). The ark will not be missed, for Jerusalem itself shall be called the throne of Jehovah, and all nations gathered to it: Judah and Israel walking together out of the north country into the land given to their fathers, a restoration of Israel as Israel still ahead.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

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  • A. 1–5 Can a Divorced Wife Return? Israel's Many Lovers
  • B. 6–11 Backsliding Israel and Treacherous Judah Compared
  • C. 12–18 Return, Backsliding Children — Shepherds After My Heart
  • D. 19–25 Behold, We Come Unto Thee: Weeping on the Bare Heights
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  • Jeremiah 27 verses
    • Jeremiah 2:2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
    • Jeremiah 2:7I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.
    • Jeremiah 2:19Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
    • Jeremiah 2:20“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
    • Jeremiah 2:26As the thief is ashamed when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced. They, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets
    • Jeremiah 2:27say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble they beg, ‘Rise up and save us!’
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  • Jeremiah 34 verses
    • Jeremiah 3:2“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
    • Jeremiah 3:4Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.
    • Jeremiah 3:6Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
    • Jeremiah 3:19Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
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  • Jeremiah 313 verses
    • Jeremiah 31:8Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, including the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor. They will return as a great assembly!
    • Jeremiah 31:9They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”
    • Jeremiah 31:32It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.
    • Read Jeremiah 31 →
  • Ezekiel 163 verses
    • Ezekiel 16:26You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and increased your promiscuity to provoke Me to anger.
    • Ezekiel 16:46Your older sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters to your north; and your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters to your south.
    • Ezekiel 16:51Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have multiplied your abominations beyond theirs, and all the abominations you have committed have made your sisters appear righteous.
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    • Isaiah 57:6Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; indeed, they are your lot. Even to them you have poured out a drink offering and offered a grain offering. Should I relent because of these?
    • Isaiah 57:16For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.
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  • Jeremiah 232 verses
    • Jeremiah 23:4I will raise up shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any go missing, declares the LORD.
    • Jeremiah 23:8Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ Then they will dwell once more in their own land.”
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  • Hosea 142 verses
    • Hosea 14:1Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
    • Hosea 14:4I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.
    • Read Hosea 14 →
  • Deuteronomy 241 verse
    • Deuteronomy 24:1If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.