Jeremiah 30:3

For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. I WILL BRING AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF MY PEOPLE ISRAEL AND JUDAH - the restoration not merely of the Jews (treated of in this Jeremiah 30:1), but also of the ten tribes ("Israel," treated of in Jeremiah 31:1), together forming the whole nation (; ; ;...

We now, then, see why he says, _come shall the days; _for every hope after two years would have been extinguished, had not God interposed. _Come, _then, _shall the days in which I wll restore the captivity of Israel and Judah _The ten tribes, we know, had been already led into exile; the tribe of Judah and the half tribe of Benjamin only remained. Hence the ten tribes, the whole kingdom of Israel, are mentioned first. The exile of Israel was much longer than that of Judah. It afterwards follows, —...

1-11 Jeremiah is to write what God had spoken to him. The very words are such as the Holy Ghost teaches. These are the words God ordered to be written; and promises written by his order, are truly his word. He must write a description of the trouble the people were now in, and were likely to be in. A happy end should be put to these calamities. Though the afflictions of the church may last long, they shall not last always. The Jews shall be restored again. They shall obey, or hearken to the Messiah, the Christ, the Son of David, their King. The deliverance of the Jews from Babylon, is pointed out in the prophecy, but the restoration and happy state of Israel and Judah, when converted to Christ their King, are foretold; also the miseries of the nations before the coming of Christ. All men must honour the Son as they honour the Father, and come into the service and worship of God by him....

Verse Jeremiah 30:3. _THE DAYS COME_] _First_, After the conclusion of the _seventy_ years. _Secondly_, Under the _Messiah_. _THAT I WILL BRING AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF ISRAEL_] The _ten tribes_, led captive by the king of _Assyria_, and dispersed among the _nations_. _AND JUDAH_] The people carried into _Babylon_ at _two different_ _times_; first, under _Jeconiah_, and, secondly, under _Zedekiah_, by Nebuchadnezzar....

EXPOSITION This and the three next chapters form a kind of book in themselves, which contrasts admirably with Jermiah 27-29. In the latter Jeremiah aimed at casting down the delusive hope that the time of trial would soon be over and the captives restored; here he assumes that all are aware of the sad reality, and concentrates himself on the happier topics of comfort and encouragement. Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1. shine out among all Jeremiah's prophecies; there is a combination of softness and vigour which, even from a purely literary point of view, is most attractive. Strictly speaking, they ought to form but one chapter; they represent (as verse 4 states) the revelation from Jehovah "concerning Israel and concerning Judah." It is, indeed, most touching, this yearning of the inspi

FOR, LO, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD,.... And they are yet to come; the prophecy is not yet fulfilled. Kimchi says this belongs to the days of the Messiah; but not to his first coming, or to his coming in the flesh, which the Jews vainly expect; but to his spiritual coming in the latter day: THAT I WILL BRING AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF MY PEOPLE ISRAEL AND JUDAH, SAITH THE LORD; which cannot be understood of their return from the Babylonish captivity; for, as Kimchi rightly observes, only Judah and Benjamin returned from thence; and though there were some few of the other tribes that came with them, especially of the tribe of Levi, yet not sufficient to answer to so great a prophecy as this, which refers to the same time as that in Hosea 3:5; as appears by comparing that with...

Jeremiah 30:1. _The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book._ Too good to be lost. The prophets said much when they did not write, and this particular chapter and the next were to be carefully written down. God here begins to deal with his guilty people in a way of love and mercy. It is a very strange chapter, one of the richest, one of the most cheering in the whole of God's Word. Therefore, write it in a book. Jeremiah 30:3. _For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it._...

THE GLORIOUS FUTURE OF THE NATION (30-31) CHAPTER 30 _ 1. The time of Jacob's trouble (Jeremiah 30:1) _ 2. Zion's desperate condition and the promise of deliverance (Jeremiah 30:12) 3. Restoration and glory (Jeremiah 30:18) Jeremiah 30:1. The critics have made havoc with this great prophecy. De Wette, Hitzig, and other rationalists, claim to have discovered that this chapter, and those which follow, are the work of the spurious “second Isaiah.” The critics, with their present day echoes in different colleges, reject these Chapter s as not being Jeremianic. They are totally wrong

JEREMIAH 30-31. THE FUTURE OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH. These two Chapter s of prophecy, dealing with the future restoration of Israel and Judah, appear to be a later editorial insertion in the narrative scheme of Jeremiah 26-45, placed here perhaps because Jeremiah 32 and Jeremiah 33 contain narratives and prophecies dealing with the same subject (_cf._ also Jeremiah 29:10 ff.). In Jeremiah 30 and Jeremiah 31, there are numerous points of contact with Deutero-Isaiah, a fact which, with other features, has suggested to many scholars an exilic or post-exilic date for much that these Chapter s contain. The contrast with the general pessimism of earlier Chapter s is very noticeable. On the other hand, the internal evidence for Jeremiah 31:2;...

LO. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. ISRAEL. As well as Judah....