Verse Jeremiah 3:12. _PROCLAIM THESE WORDS TOWARD THE NORTH_] The countries where the ten tribes were then in captivity, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Media, c., see 2 Kings 17:6 these lay _north_ of Judea....
THE NORTH - The ten tribes, settled by Salmanezer in the north of Assyria. I WILL NOT CAUSE MINE ANGER TO FALL UPON YOU - literally, I will not cause my face “to fall upon you:” i. e., “I will not re...
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...
TOWARD THE NORTH. toward the Northern Kingdom of Israel. CAUSE MINE ANGER TO FALL UPON YOU. Hebrew cause My face, or countenance, to fall. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), for the ange...
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)...
_look in anger_ lit. as mg. _cause my countenance to fall upon you_. For the falling of the countenance in this sense, cp. Genesis 4:5....
In spite of (i) greater privileges, (_a_) succession of kings of the same family, (_b_) the Temple, (_c_) Levites; (ii) the warning example of Israel, Judah has proved faithless and hypocritical as we...
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...
GO, AND PROCLAIM, &C.— The sin of the ten tribes being attended with more favourable circumstances than that of Judah, the prophet is here commanded to call them to repentance, with promises of pardon...
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,...
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 LORD, and I will...
3:12 dark (c-23) Lit. 'cause my face to fall.'...
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...
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...
TOWARD THE NORTH] to Assyria, the place of Israel's captivity....
TOWARD THE NORTH. — The prophet utters his message as towards the far land of Assyria and the cities of the Medes to which the ten tribes of Israel had been carried away captive (2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings...
הָלֹ֡ךְ וְ קָֽרָאתָ֩ אֶת ־הַ דְּבָרִ֨ים הָ
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...
Go and proclaim these words toward (o) the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; [and] I will not cause my anger to fall upon you: for I [am] merciful, saith the LORD, [and]...
_North. Samaria, or rather Assyria, where the people were captives. --- Face, in anger._...
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...
The Prophet, after having shewn that the tribe of Judah deserved a heavier punishment than the ten tribes, and having mentioned the cause, that they had seen their brethren severely chastised and were...
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...
GO AND PROCLAIM THESE WORDS TOWARDS THE NORTH,.... With his face thitherwards, towards Babylon, which lay north of Judea, and was the metropolis of Assyria, where the ten tribes were carried captive;...
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 LORD, [and] I...
_Go, and proclaim these words toward the north_ “The sin of the ten tribes being attended with more favourable circumstances than that of Judah, the prophet is commanded to call them to repentance wit...
THE CALL TO RETURN...
Go and proclaim these words toward the North, because Israel had been carried away captive in that direction, AND SAY, RETURN, THOU BACKSLIDING ISRAEL, SAITH THE LORD, a loving invitation addressed to...
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...
GO: it may possibly be used here as an adverb of exciting, namely, to go, as is usual; or it notes speed, Go quickly, out of hand; not locally, but set thy face, JEREMIAH 2:2, or feet, that way, or by...
Jeremiah 3:12 Go H1980 (H8800) proclaim H7121 (H8804) words H1697 north H6828 say H559 (H8804) Return...
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 30:9; 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 17:23; 2 Kings 17:6;...
The north — To Assyria and Media, that lay northward from Judea, whither the ten tribes were carried by Tiglath — pileser, and Salmanezer....