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Jeremiah 31:32

in Jeremiah 31

It 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.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

not 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 a husband unto them, saith Jehovah.

KJV

Not 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:

This verse in Jeremiah 31

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers,.... Meaning not Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; but the ancestors of the Jews that came out of Egypt, as appears by what follows.

This site's exposition

I will make a new covenant

on Jeremiah 31:31-34

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: the only place the Old Testament uses the phrase, and Hebrews 8:8-12 quotes the whole passage, the longest Old Testament quotation in the New, drawing at 8:13 the conclusion from the covenant's own word. The terms are inward, personal, and final: the law put in their inward parts and written in hearts, they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest, and I will remember their sin no more, forgiveness as the covenant's foundation rather than its maintenance. The Lord took its cup into his own hands, this cup is the new testament in my blood (Luke 22:20), which is the New Testament's own claim that the days foretold here began that night; the exposition states it as the claim the texts make.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Not according - The covenant which God made with the Jews when they came out of the land of Egypt, was on God's part the law which he gave them, with the promises annexed; on their part (which made it a formal covenant) their promise of obedience to it.

The words behind it

22 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • לֹ֣אnot

    lo'H38085168 times

  • כַבְּרִ֗יתlike the covenant

    khaberitH1285284 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רwhich

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • כָּרַ֙תִּי֙I made

    karatiH3772288 times

  • אֶת־with

    ʾet-H854929 times

  • אֲבוֹתָ֔םancestors their

    ʾavotamH11212 times

  • בְּיוֹם֙on [the] day

    beyomH31172304 times

  • הֶחֱזִיקִ֣יtook hold I

    hechezikiH2388291 times

  • בְיָדָ֔םon hand their

    veyadamH30271618 times

  • לְהוֹצִיאָ֖םto bring out them

    lehotziamH33181067 times

  • מֵאֶ֖רֶץfrom [the] land of

    meeretzH7762504 times

  • מִצְרָ֑יִםEgypt

    mitzrayimH4714641 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־who

    ʾasher-H8345497 times

  • הֵ֜מָּהthey

    hemahH1992553 times

  • הֵפֵ֣רוּthey broke

    heferuH656550 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • בְּרִיתִ֗יcovenant my

    beritiH1285284 times

  • וְאָנֹכִ֛יand I

    veanokhiH595359 times

  • בָּעַ֥לְתִּיI was a husband

    baaltiH1166

  • בָ֖םover <the> them

    vam

  • נְאֻם־[the] utterance of

    neum-H5002376 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 19:5

    Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 14:2

      for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the…

    • Deuteronomy 7:6

      For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of…

    • Deuteronomy 26:18

      And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,

    • Malachi 3:17

      “They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.

    • Exodus 15:26

      saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then…

  • Through

    John 3:29

    The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens for him, and is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 54:5

      For your husband is your Maker—the LORD of Hosts is His name—the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.

    • Hosea 2:19

      So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 1:31

    and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 46:3–4

      “Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.