Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 3:3
A whore's forehead — For all this, thou didst still remain obstinate, as ashamed of nothing.
A whore's forehead — For all this, thou didst still remain obstinate, as ashamed of nothing.
Verse Jeremiah 3:3. _THERE HATH BEEN NO LATTER RAIN_] The _former rain_, which prepared the earth for tillage, fell in the beginning of _November_, or a little sooner; and the _latter rain_ fell in th...
CHAPTER S 2:1-3:5 Expostulation and Impeachment _ 1. His love and kindness to Jerusalem (Jeremiah 2:1) _ 2. The unfaithful people (Jeremiah 2:4) 3. The two evils and the results (Jeremiah 2:12)...
ISRAEL'S INFIDELITY. (Some introductory formula, like that of Jeremiah 2:1, has dropped out before Jeremiah 3:1; note _mg.)._ Israel's marital unfaithfulness to Yahweh is too gross for a facile repent...
SHOWERS... WITHHOLDEN. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:19; Deuteronomy 11:17; Deuteronomy 28:23). App-92. FOREHEAD. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for impudence....
_no latter rain_ See ch. Jeremiah 5:24, and for the general thought cp. Amos 4:6 ff. The wholly different rendering of the clause by LXX, though doubtless wrong, suggests an original Hebrew with the s...
THEREFORE THE SHOWERS HAVE BEEN WITHHOLDEN— The general import of this passage is, that though God had begun in some degree to chastise his people (as he threatened, Leviticus 26:19. Deuteronomy 28:23...
II. GOD'S APPEAL To HIS PEOPLE Jeremiah 3:1 to Jeremiah 4:4 After the blistering indictment of his inaugural sermon Jeremiah takes up the subject of repentance. He speaks here of (1) the possibility o...
Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed. NO LATTER RAIN - essential to the crops in Palestine...
BREAK UP, etc.] As the farmer is careful to clear the soil of weeds before sowing his seed, so with Israel. The sowing of repentance must be serious and real....
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...
THEREFORE THE SHOWERS... — Outward calamities were looked upon as chastisements for these sins. There had apparently been a severe drought in the reign of Josiah (Jeremiah 9:12; Jeremiah 25:1). There...
וַ יִּמָּנְע֣וּ רְבִבִ֔ים וּ מַלְקֹ֖ושׁ לֹ֣וא...
CHAPTER II THE TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT Jeremiah 2:1; Jeremiah 3:1 THE first of the prophet's public addresses is, in fact, a sermon which proceeds from an exposure of national sin to the menac...
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...
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there hath been no (f) latter rain; and thou hadst an (g) harlot's forehead, thou didst refuse to be ashamed. (f) As God threatened by his law, (Deuteron...
_Rain; about November, Deuteronomy xi. 14. This drought happened under Josias, (chap. v. 24.) and was different from that specified, chap. viii. 13., and xiv. 1._...
It is the uniform custom of human life, that, if a woman prove unfaithful to her husband, and the thing be notorious and publicly known, by her open departure from him, never is she permitted to retur...
Jeremiah proceeds with his severe reproof, — that the Jews were wholly given to wickedness, for they had altogether devoted themselves to superstitions, and also to unlawful alliances, and had in both...
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...
THEREFORE THE SHOWERS HAVE BEEN WITHHOLDEN, AND THERE HATH BEEN NO LATTER RAIN,.... There were two seasons of the year when rain in common fell upon the land of Israel, called the former and the latte...
Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed. Ver. 3. _Therefore the showers have been withholden._]...
_Therefore the showers have been withholden_ Namely, by me, according to my threatening, Leviticus 26:19; Deuteronomy 28:23; that is, a drought was sent upon their land, either as a punishment of thei...
THE POSSIBILITY OF RETURN...
Therefore, as a punishment for such idolatrous behavior, THE SHOWERS HAVE BEEN WITHHOLDEN, AND THERE HATH BEEN NO LATTER RAIN, which was absolutely necessary for maturing the crops in Palestine, Cf Le...
1-5 In repentance, it is good to think upon the sins of which we have been guilty, and the places and companies where they have been committed. How gently the Lord had corrected them! In receiving pe...
THEREFORE THE SHOWERS HAVE BEEN WITHHOLDEN, viz. by me, according to my threatening, LEVITICUS 26:19 DEUTERONOMY 28:23,24, i.e. a drought sent upon thee, either as a punishment of thy wickedness; thus...
Jeremiah 3:3 showers H7241 withheld H4513 (H8735) rain H4456 harlots H802 H2181 (H8802) forehead H4696 refuse...
YHWH LAYS DOWN HIS FINAL TERMS (JEREMIAH 3:1). The latter rains have failed to come because they have been faithless to YHWH, something that is evident to anyone who will look to the bare hills or the...
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 again to Me, saith the Lord._ THE BACKSLIDER INVITED TO RETURN We have here a wonderful display of God’s character: forbearance, pity, and love. I. What is inferred. A departure from God....
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...
Amos 4:7; Deuteronomy 28:23; Ezekiel 16:30; Ezekiel 3:7; Haggai 1:11;