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Chapter summary
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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Chapter summary
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
Prophecy · Jeremiah — Jeremiah overview
- 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 2:2Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
- Jeremiah 2:7And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
- Jeremiah 2:19Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.
- Jeremiah 2:20For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
- Jeremiah 2:26As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
- Jeremiah 2:27Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
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Jeremiah 34 verses
- Jeremiah 3:2Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
- Jeremiah 3:4Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
- Jeremiah 3:6The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
- Jeremiah 3:19But 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 me.
- Read Jeremiah 3 →
Jeremiah 313 verses
- Jeremiah 31:8Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.
- Jeremiah 31:9They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
- Jeremiah 31:32Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:
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Ezekiel 163 verses
- Ezekiel 16:26Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
- Ezekiel 16:46And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
- Ezekiel 16:51Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
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Isaiah 572 verses
- Isaiah 57:6Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
- Isaiah 57:16For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
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Jeremiah 232 verses
- Jeremiah 23:4And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the Lord.
- Jeremiah 23:8But, The Lord liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
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Hosea 142 verses
- Hosea 14:1O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
- Hosea 14:4I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
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Deuteronomy 241 verse
- Deuteronomy 24:1When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.
