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Jeremiah 31:34

in Jeremiah 31

No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.

KJV

And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

This verse in Jeremiah 31

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Against Jovinianus 2.27 · Written before 420.

In Jeremiah, we read concerning the future kingdom …, "They shall all know me, from the least to the greatest of them." The context of this passage clearly shows that the prophet is describing the future kingdom. But how can there possibly be in it a least or greatest, if all are to be equal? The secret is disclosed in the Gospel: "Whoever shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever shall teach and not do shall be least."

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
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother,.... Which is not to be understood of the outward ministry of the word; in heaven indeed there will be no need of it, nor in the New Jerusalem state; but in every period of time before it.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
TRUE knowledge of God is a Covenant blessing. To know Jehovah as the only living and true God, to know Him personally and intimately, so as to say with David, "You are my God"—this is one of the choice blessings of the Covenant of Grace which grace bestows upon all the chosen. In this prophecy Jehovah declares that He will yet give this knowledge to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. And this is our hope for the long-wandering seed of Abraham, whom He will yet restore and save.

The words behind it

29 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.

  • וְלֹ֧אand not

    velo'H38085168 times

  • יְלַמְּד֣וּthey will teach

    yelameduH392585 times

  • ע֗וֹדagain

    odH5750490 times

  • אִ֣ישׁeach

    ʾishH3761663 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • רֵעֵ֜הוּneighbor his

    reehuH7453188 times

  • וְאִ֤ישׁand each

    veishH3761663 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • אָחִיו֙brother his

    ʾachivH251630 times

  • לֵאמֹ֔ר<to> saying

    lemorH5595305 times

  • דְּע֖וּknow

    deuH3045945 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H35884482 times

  • כוּלָּם֩all of them

    khulamH36055413 times

  • יֵדְע֨וּthey will know

    yedeuH3045945 times

  • אוֹתִ֜י<obj.> me

    ʾotiH85310935 times

  • לְמִקְטַנָּ֤ם<to> from little their

    lemiktanamH6996101 times

  • וְעַד־and unto

    vead-H57041261 times

  • גְּדוֹלָם֙great their

    gedolamH1419526 times

  • נְאֻם־[the] utterance of

    neum-H5002376 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • כִּ֤יthat

    kiH35884482 times

  • אֶסְלַח֙I will forgive

    ʾeslachH554546 times

  • לַֽעֲוֹנָ֔ם<to> iniquity their

    laavonamH5771233 times

  • וּלְחַטָּאתָ֖םand <to> sin their

    ulechatatamH2403295 times

  • לֹ֥אnot

    lo'H38085168 times

  • אֶזְכָּר־I will remember

    ʾezkor-H2142230 times

  • עֽוֹד׃ סagain

    odH5750490 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

    Isaiah 43:25

    I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

    it leads to

    • Hebrews 8:12

      For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”

    • Micah 7:18–19

      Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

    • Hebrews 10:17

      Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”

    • Isaiah 1:18

      “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.

    • Isaiah 44:22

      I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

  • Through

    1 John 2:27

    And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all…

    it leads to

    • John 14:26

      But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.

    • 1 John 2:20–21

      You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.

  • Through

    Isaiah 54:13

    Then all your sons will be taught by the LORD, and great will be their prosperity.

    it leads to

    • John 6:45

      It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—

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; Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2006: “Knowing the Lord Through Pardoned Sin” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); Jerome, Against Jovinianus 2.27; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.