Jeremiah 3:11 KJV — MannaFest

Jeremiah 3:11

And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

KJV

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ASV

And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath showed herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

YLT

And Jehovah saith unto me: `Justified herself hath backsliding Israel, More than treacherous Judah.

WEB

And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than unfaithful Judah.

DBT

And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath shewn herself more just than treacherous Judah.

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Jeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.

Author: Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
Date: Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile

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Ezekiel 23:11
And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
Ezekiel 16:51–52
Neither 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.
Matthew 12:41
The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
Hosea 11:7
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
Hosea 4:16
For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

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Great encouragements are given to these backsliders to return and repent, and promises made of great mercy which God had in store for them, and which he would prepare them for by bringing them home to himself,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

): Israel has justified herself more than Judah, that is, she is not so bad as Judah is. This comparative justification will stand Israel in little stead; what will it avail us to say, We are not so bad as others, when yet we are not really good ourselves? But it will serve as an aggravation of the sin of Judah, which was in two respects worse than that of Israel:-- 1.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

justified herself--has been made to appear almost just (that is, comparatively innocent) by the surpassing guilt of Judah, who adds hypocrisy and treachery to her sin; and who had the example of Israel to warn her, but in vain (compare Eze 16:51;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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