Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 3:9
Lightness - Others render as in the margin.
Defiled - Rather, profaned. The land especially consecrated to Yahweh’s service was treated by Judah as a common land.
Lightness - Others render as in the margin.
Defiled - Rather, profaned. The land especially consecrated to Yahweh’s service was treated by Judah as a common land.
Verse Jeremiah 3:9. _THE LIGHTNESS OF HER WHOREDOM_] The _grossness_ of her idolatry: worshipping objects the most degrading, with rites the most impure....
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...
STONES... STOCKS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the idols made from them....
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)...
_lightness_ frivolity. The Hebrew word occurs here only in this sense. _with stones and with stocks_ See on Jeremiah 2:27....
B. The Need for Repentance Jeremiah 3:6-10 TRANSLATION (6) And the LORD said unto me in the days of Josiah the king: Have You seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She continuously goes upon e...
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. AND IT CAME TO PASS THROUGH THE LIGHTNESS OF HER WHOREDOM ....
3:9 lightness (b-8) Or 'cry' or 'fame.'...
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 LIGHTNESS OF HER WHOREDOM. — Lightness in the ethical sense of “levity.” Apostasy was treated once more as if it had been a light thing (1 Kings 16:31). The word is, however, very variously interp...
וְ הָיָה֙ מִ קֹּ֣ל זְנוּתָ֔הּ וַ תֶּחֱנַ֖ף
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...
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 came to pass through the (l) lightness of her harlotry, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with trees. (l) The Hebrew word may either signify lightness and wanto...
It should seem, that this is the opening of a new sermon; perhaps it was preached at a different period from the former: but the subject is the same. A sad account is given of both kingdoms, Judah and...
Here the Prophet completes his charge, — that so far was it that the punishment which God had inflicted on the Israelites, had any effect on the tribe of Judah, that she surpassed by her levity and lu...
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 CAME TO PASS, THROUGH THE LIGHTNESS OF HER WHOREDOM,.... Or the "swiftness" b of it; when it was once set on foot, it ran through the land presently one taking it from and following the example...
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. Ver. 9. _And it came to pass through the lightness of her who...
_And through the lightness of her whoredom_ “By this phrase,” says Blaney, “I take to be meant, that she was not nice in the choice of the objects, but was ready to prostitute herself to all that came...
THE CALL TO RETURN...
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, the ease with which she practiced her infamous wickedness, that SHE DEFILED THE LAND AND COMMITTED ADULTERY WITH STONES AND WITH STOCKS, with...
LIGHTNESS: Or, fame...
6-11 If we mark the crimes of those who break off from a religious profession, and the consequences, we see abundant reason to shun evil ways. It is dreadful to be proved more criminal than those who...
THE LIGHTNESS OF HER WHOREDOM; whether of Judah's or of Israel's is not agreed upon, but the right applying of it doth depend much upon the right acceptation of the word _lightness_, which comes from...
Jeremiah 3:9 casual H6963 harlotry H2184 defiled H2610 (H8799) land H776 adultery H5003 (H8799) stones H68 trees...
YHWH CALLS ON JUDAH TO CONSIDER WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO ISRAEL, HER NORTHERN NEIGHBOUR, WHEN SHE HAD FAILED TO TURN BACK TO HIM, SOMETHING THAT JUDAH IS ALSO FAILING TO DO (JEREMIAH 3:6). YHWH here refer...
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...
_Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also._ COMPARATIVE CRIMINALITY I. State this decision of the Lord. 1. Israel, from the time they became a distinct nation, cast off God; therefore,...
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 16:17; Ezekiel 23:10; Habakkuk 2:19; Hosea 4:12; Isaiah 57:6;