Jeremiah 31:2 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 31:2

This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Thus saith Jehovah, The people that were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

KJV

Thus saith the Lord, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah (420)

(Version 2.) Thus says the Lord: The people who remained with the sword found favor in the wilderness, let Israel go to their rest. LXX: Thus says the Lord: I have found warmth in the desert with those who have perished by the sword. Go, and do not kill Israel. The Latin texts in this place are laughed at for their ambiguity in the interpretation of the Greek word. Instead of warmth, they are interpreted as lupine: for the Greek word θερμὸν has both meanings, which is not found in Hebrew.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The people which were left of the sword - Those of the ten tribes that had escaped death by the sword of the Assyrians. Found grace in the wilderness - The place of their exile; a wilderness, compared to their own land. - Dahler. See Isa 40:3

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Upon the grace manifested to Israel "in the wilderness" God grounds His argument for renewing His favors to them now in their exile; because His covenant is "everlasting" (Jer 31:3), and changes not.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כֹּ֚ה	koh	thus	H3541 →
אָמַ֣ר	'a.Mar	he says	H559 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
מָצָ֥א	ma.Tza'	it found	H4672 →
חֵן֙	chen	favor	H2580 →
בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר	ba.mid.Bar	in the wilderness	H4057 →
עַ֖ם	'am	[the] people of	H5971 →
שְׂרִ֣ידֵי	se.Ri.dei	[the] survivors of	H8300 →
חָ֑רֶב	Cha.rev	[the] sword	H2719 →
הָל֥וֹךְ	ha.Lokh	I will go	H1980 →
לְהַרְגִּיע֖וֹ	le.har.gi.'O	to give rest it	H7280 →
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 11:28
Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
leads to
- Matthew 11:29
  Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
- John 7:37
  On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
- John 6:37
  Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
- Galatians 5:1
  It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
- Isaiah 55:1–3
  “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
Through
Psalms 95:11
So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
leads to
- Hebrews 4:3
  Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And…
- Hebrews 4:5
  And again, as He says in the passage above: “They shall never enter My rest.”
- Numbers 14:23
  not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.