Verse Jeremiah 3:16. _THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OF THE LORD_] This symbol of the Divine presence, given to the Jews as a token and pledge of God's dwelling among them, shall be no longer necessary, and...
IN THOSE DAYS - This and the phrase “the latter days,” had become under the Messianic teaching of the prophets a regular formula for the time of Christ’s coming, when all the nation’s hopes would be f...
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...
IN THOSE DAYS: i.e. the days of the Restoration spoken of in verses: Jeremiah 3:14; Jeremiah 3:15. Compare Jeremiah 31:38; Jeremiah 33:13
The Ark, which had been the seat of the special manifestation of Jehovah, shall be forgotten, because the whole city shall be filled with His presence. _And it shall … in the land_ Probably a later in...
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...
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)...
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...
NEITHER SHALL THAT BE DONE ANY MORE— There can be no doubt to any reader of this and the subsequent verses, that, however they may refer, in their primary sense, to the restoration of the Jews after t...
D. The Blessings of Repentance Jeremiah 3:15-22 a TRANSLATION (15) And I will give you shepherds according to My heart who shall feed you with knowledge and wisdom. (16) And it shall come to pass whe...
And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind:...
3:16 mind, (f-38) Or 'rise in the heart.' done (g-53) Or 'made,' if the ark be meant....
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...
The blessings of repentance and obedience. Even the ark with the mercy seat on which the brightness which marked Jehovah's presence rested shall be forgotten, for Jehovah shall no longer be confined t...
IN THOSE DAYS. — No time had been named, but the phrase had become familiar for the far-off better time of the true king of the Messianic kingdom. THEY SHALL SAY NO MORE, THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OF TH...
וְ הָיָ֡ה כִּ֣י תִרְבּוּ֩ וּ פְרִיתֶ֨ם בָּ
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...
And it shall come to pass, when ye shall be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The (q) ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come...
_Ark. It was no longer at Jerusalem. The law and its figures cease._...
Reader! doth not your heart go forth, At the reading of those blessed promises, with an earnestness of desire, that the Lord would fulfil them, and give his people pastors indeed according to his own...
_AN OBSOLETE WATCHWORD_ ‘And it shall come to pass … they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come to mind.’ Jeremiah 3:16 I. THERE WAS A TIME IN ISRAEL WHEN TH...
Interpreters have perverted this verse, for none of them have understood the design of the Prophet. The Jews, for the most part, have adduced frigid and far — fetched glosses, — that they would no mor...
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...
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN YE BE MULTIPLIED AND INCREASED IN THE LAND,.... That is, when the number of the disciples and followers of Christ, and true believers in him, shall be multiplied and in...
And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: n...
_And when ye be multiplied_ That is, when the kingdom of the Messiah shall be set up, and there shall be a vast increase of the members of the church by the accession of the Gentiles: for that the day...
THE CALL TO RETURN...
And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the Lord, in the days when the spiritual Israelites would be gathered in the kingdom of the Messiah, TH...
COME TO MIND: _ Heb._ come upon the heart THAT BE DONE: Or, it be magnified...
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...
OLBHeb; WHEN YE BE MULTIPLIED; after the growth of the church under the Messiah. IN THOSE DAYS; pointing at the great work of conversion that should be among them, especially in the days of the Messia...
Jeremiah 3:16 multiplied H7235 (H8799) increased H6509 (H8804) land H776 days H3117 says H5002 (H8803) LORD...
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...
_The ark of the covenant of the Lord._ THE ARK OF THE COVENANT When inward piety is low the externals of religion are frequently cried up. Those who know nothing of God are the very people to exclaim...
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 9:14; Amos 9:15; Amos 9:9; Ezekiel 36:8; Ezekiel 37:26;...
Multiplied — After the growth of the church under the Messiah. The ark — That whole worship with all the rites and ceremonies belonging to it shall cease, Christ being come, who was the substance of w...