George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 3:14
Kindred. Only few Israelites returned under Cyrus. The rest came by degrees, though it was more fully accomplished by the conversion of the Gentiles.
Kindred. Only few Israelites returned under Cyrus. The rest came by degrees, though it was more fully accomplished by the conversion of the Gentiles.
Verse Jeremiah 3:14. _I WILL TAKE YOU ONE OF A CITY, AND TWO OF A FAMILY_] If there should be but one of a city left, or one willing to return, and _two only of a whole tribe_, yet will I receive the...
CHILDREN ... MARRIED - The twofold relationship gives a double certainty of acceptance. As children, they were sure of a father’s love, as a wife they might hope for a revival of past affection from t...
THE CALL TO REPENTANCE AND JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED (3:6-6:30) CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The contrast between backslidden Israel and treacherous Judah (Jeremiah 3:6) _ 2. The call to return and the promised glory ...
ISRAEL'S SIN LESS THAN JUDAH'S. This passage interrupts the continuity of Jeremiah 3:19 with Jeremiah 3:5 (note also the interruptive introductory formula, Jeremiah 3:6), and seems to be a separate pr...
TURN. Return, as in verses: Jeremiah 3:12; Jeremiah 3:22. MARRIED. am become your husband. This will be the result of the Restoration here promised. FAMILY. Probably. family, or group of cities....
Dr. (with Co. and others) points out that here the word "Israel" is used in its restricted sense for the ten tribes, whereas in Jeremiah 2:1 to Jeremiah 3:5 it meant the people as a whole, and he infe...
Jeremiah 3:6 to Jeremiah 4:4. Conditional offers of restoration We may subdivide thus. (1) Jeremiah 3:6-18. The ten tribes as less guilty than Judah are invited to repent and return. (2)...
Much here is probably a later editorial insertion (see Intr. iv. § 8), for (i) the picture (Jeremiah 3:14) of a very limited number of the captives returning from Assyria, and settling in Jerusalem, w...
_one of … family_ Very small places were called "cities," while "family" must mean a considerable number, a clan, or even a larger group. Cp. Jeremiah 8:3; Jeremiah 25:9....
DISCOURSE: 1033 GOD’S INVITATION TO HIS PEOPLE Jeremiah 3:12. Go, and proclaim these words toward the north; and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not cause mine anger t...
TURN,—FOR I AM MARRIED, &C.— _Turn—and though I have rejected you, I will take you one of a city, and two of a tribe,_ or _country:_ that is to say, "I will receive you, though there should be but one...
C. The Call to Repentance Jeremiah 3:11-14 TRANSLATION (11) And the LORD said unto me, More righteous is Backsliding Israel than Treacherous Judah. (12) Go and call these words to the north and say,...
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: I AM MARRIED, [ baa`al (H1166) bª-...]...
ONE OF.. TWO OF, etc.] A 'city' might be a mere village. A 'family,' i.e. descendants of a common ancestor, suggested a larger number. There were, e.g., only four or five families in the whole tribe o...
JEREMIAH'S THIRD PROPHECY. THE FATE OF THE TEN TRIBES A WARNING TO JUDAH In this prophecy, as in the last, idolatry is denounced under the figure of unfaithfulness to the marriage vow. But as a marke...
THE PROPHET SETS FORTH THE SIN OF THE NATION AND POINTS OUT THE INEVITABLE RESULT (REIGN OF JOSIAH, AND PROBABLY BEFORE THE REFORMS OF THAT KING: CP. JEREMIAH 3:6) This section furnishes us with the g...
TURN, O BACKSLIDING CHILDREN. — In his desire to individualise his call to repentance, the prophet drops his parable, or rather combines the sign and the thing signified, with the same assonance as be...
שׁ֣וּבוּ בָנִ֤ים שֹׁובָבִים֙ נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֔ה כִּ֥י...
CHAPTER III ISRAEL AND JUDAH: A CONTRAST Jeremiah 3:6; Jeremiah 4:1 THE first address of our prophet was throughout of a sombre cast, and the darkness of its close was not relieved by a single ray o...
PLEADING WITH FAITHLESS CHILDREN Jeremiah 3:11-25; Jeremiah 4:1-2 The people of the northern kingdom, to whom this appeal is especially addressed, were more excusable than Judah, because their privil...
Following the impeachment, the prophet appealed to the people to return. This appeal commenced with a declaration that Jehovah's love was greater than man's in that He was willing to receive back the...
Nothing can more highly illustrate the riches of grace, than what is here said, on the subject of divine mercy. Israel was about to go into Babylon, and there the Prophet is particularly directed to p...
Jeremiah repeats the same thing in other words; but God by so many words shews clearer how ready he would be to grant pardon, provided the Israelites really repented. It would have been enough for God...
Chapter 3 has the same character; indeed it is the continuation of the same address; but it contains details of Israel's and Judah's behaviour, and proclaims the restoration of Israel by sovereign goo...
TURN, O BACKSLIDING CHILDREN, SAITH THE LORD,.... All of them were children by national adoption, and some by special grace, and yet "backsliders", O monstrous ingratitude! "backsliders", and yet "chi...
_Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:_ Ver. 14. _Turn, O backsliding children...
_Turn, for I am married unto you_ I am in covenant with you, and this covenant, notwithstanding all your unfaithfulness, I am ready to renew with you. Hebrew, בעלתי בכם, which Blaney translates, _I ha...
THE CALL TO RETURN...
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord, for I am married unto you, literally, "I am Lord and Husband to you"; AND I WILL TAKE YOU ONE OF A CITY AND TWO OF A FAMILY, or tribe, collecting the true...
12-20 See God's readiness to pardon sin, and the blessings reserved for gospel times. These words were proclaimed toward the north; to Israel, the ten tribes, captive in Assyria. They are directed ho...
TURN, O BACKSLIDING CHILDREN; for I am married unto you; I am in covenant with you, DEUTERONOMY 29:1,DEUTERONOMY 29:10, &c., and this covenant, notwithstanding all your unfaithfulness, I am ready to r...
Jeremiah 3:14 Return H7725 (H8798) backsliding H7726 children H1121 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 married H1166 ...
A BRIEF GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EVERLASTING KINGDOM (JEREMIAH 3:12). Having established that Judah was even more guilty than Israel YHWH now breaks into the message of gloom by demo...
Jeremiah 3:12. Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LO...
Let us read part of the 3 rd chapter of Jeremiah where God brings a solemn accusation against the two nations of Israel and Judah because they forsook the living God, and went after idols neglected hi...
In this chapter, the sin of God's people is put in the strongest possible light. The figure used may be even said to be a coarse one, but man's sin is itself a coarse thing. The thoughts suggested in...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's message concerning the impenitence of Judah. Encouragement to backsliders to return and repent. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those will justly be divorced from God tha...
Jeremiah 3:3. _Therefore the showers,_ of the former and the latter rain, _have been withheld._ Other prophets make the same remark. God is not obliged to give luxuriant harvests to furnish feasts to...
_Return, thou backsliding Israel._ THE BACKSLIDER’S RETURN I. The invitation to return. 1. From one who (1) has been wronged (Jeremiah 3:13); (2) might therefore justly be angry; (3) but is “mer...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 3:14 God asks the FAITHLESS CHILDREN (literally, “the turning-away ones”) to turn, or return, to him. If Israel will return, he will take her ONE FROM A CITY AND TWO FROM A F...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_1. Chronology._ Exact date of chapter uncertain. It naturally divides itself at Jeremiah 3:5, although Dahler, Umbriet, and Neuman contend for the unity of the chapter...
EXPOSITION That this chapter (to which the first four verses of Jeremiah 4:1. ought to have been attached) belongs to the time of Josiah seems to be proved by Jeremiah 3:6, and the years immediately f...
They say (Jeremiah 3:1), That is, in quoting the law and in speaking of the law, Deuteronomy. If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man's wife, shall he return unto...
Ezekiel 34:11; Hosea 2:19; Hosea 2:20; Isaiah 1:9; Isaiah 10:22;...
I am married — I am in covenant with you, and this covenant notwithstanding all your unfaithfulness, I am ready to renew with you. Family — This word is taken frequently for a country or nation, and t...