Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 3:7
Verse Jeremiah 3:7. And I said] By the prophets Elijah, Elisha, Hosea, Amos, c. for all these prophesied to that rebellious people, and exhorted them to return to the Lord.
Verse Jeremiah 3:7. And I said] By the prophets Elijah, Elisha, Hosea, Amos, c. for all these prophesied to that rebellious people, and exhorted them to return to the Lord.
Or, “And I said (i. e., within myself), After she has done all these things, she will return to me.” But she did not return. TREACHEROUS - literally, “Falsehood,” i. e., false, faithless. The charact...
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 THOU UNTO ME: or, "Unto Me she will return"....
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)...
_I said_ to myself; I thought. _after she had done, etc_.] mg. better, _After she hath done all these things, she, etc_....
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 I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. I SAID - (, "Yet the Lord testified against Israel and against Juda...
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...
AND I SAID... — The call to Israel to return had been slighted, and Judah, the _traitress_ or faithless, “one with falsehood,” had not taken warning from the sin or its punishment. TURN THOU UNTO ME....
וָ אֹמַ֗ר אַחֲרֵ֨י עֲשֹׂותָ֧הּ אֶת ־כָּל ־אֵ֛
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...
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...
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...
He afterwards adds, _Yet I said; _God here states, that he had long suspended his judgment before he punished the people of Israel. He then extols here his patience, that he had not immediately visite...
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 I SAID, AFTER SHE HAD DONE THESE THINGS,.... All these idolatries, in the several places mentioned, after she had repeated them over and over; the Lord sent to them by the Prophets Hosea, Amos, Mi...
And I said after she had done all these [things], Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw [it]. Ver. 7. _And I said after she had done._] Or, Yet I said; but I l...
_After she had done all these things_ For which she might justly have been abandoned; _I said, Turn thou unto me_ Namely, and I will receive thee. Though they had forsaken both the house of David and...
THE CALL TO RETURN...
And I said after she had done all these things, these were the thoughts which filled the Lord's heart. TURN THOU UNTO ME, this being the underlying thought in all prophetic admonition. BUT SHE RETURNE...
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...
TURN THOU UNTO ME, viz. by repentance, ACTS 3:19. Although she had been so vile and abominable, yet the Lord waited in expectation of her return. HER TREACHEROUS SISTER JUDAH: Benjamin is also here co...
Jeremiah 3:7 said H559 (H8799) after H310 done H6213 (H8800) Return H7725 (H8799) return H7725 ...
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...
2 Chronicles 30:6; 2 Kings 17:13; 2 Kings 17:14; Ezekiel 16:46;...