Jeremiah 3:6-11 BSB

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 3:7

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 comprised, but Judah being the chief is only named, these two abiding together after the other ten revolted to Jeroboam; called Israel’s sister, because they were all descended from the patriarch Jacob, Ezekiel 16:46; compare Ezekiel 23:2,Ezekiel 23:4; and treacherous, or the treacherous one, because... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 3:8

I saw: q.d. That which others discern not I saw well enough, viz. both her hypocrisy and dissimulation, and her incorrigibleness notwithstanding what had befallen Israel, whose correction should have been her instruction; thus God speaks of the notice he took of both, Jeremiah 23:13,Jeremiah 23:14. Israel is said to be backsliding, but Judah treacherous, because she retained the worship of God, though she did often privately and closely embrace idols. and sometimes publicly, under Manasseh, and... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 3:9

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 a Hebrew word that signifies voice; and so it may refer either to the noise or fame of it, that would fly abroad, and thus it is applied to Israel, i.e. though Israel’s whoredoms were never so much blazed abroad, yet Judah regarded it not. Or it may be taken for the heinousness of it, a crying voice,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 3:10

Though God saw what she did, and though she saw the shameful idolatry of Israel, and what she had suffered, yet she was not warned; see Jeremiah 3:8; but fell to idolatry under Manasseh, who undid what Hezekiah had done, 2 Chronicles 33:3, though under fair pretences she dissembled with God in the days of Josiah, 2 Chronicles 34:32,2 Chronicles 34:33, as appeared by her sudden revolt, viz. in less than three months after Josiah’s death, 2 Kings 23:31,2 Kings 23:32. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 3:11

Was less vile, hath more to say for herself; Judah’s sin being greatly aggravated compared with Israel, Ezekiel 16:51; Ezekiel 23:11. See Luke 18:14. For though Israel’s sins were more, and their idolatry continued, yet in Judah it was more heinous, 1. Because of their unruly headstrongness, that broke the reins and restraint which their external worship ought to have had upon them. 2. Because of their stupid security in not being warned by the judgments that they had seen befall Israel for the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jeremiah 3:1-25

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 as a single prophecy. Doubtless there is a continuity of imagery and reasoning (Jeremiah 3:1; Jeremiah 3:8), but the inscription to Jeremiah 3:6 is a difficulty, and their transforence of that inscription to Jeremiah 3:1 is unwarranted. “The Targum,” Vulgate, Jerome, Rosenmüller, Wordsworth, and... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Jeremiah 3:11

DISCOURSE: 1032COMPARATIVE CRIMINALITYJeremiah 3:11. And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.THE subject of comparative criminality is one on which we should enter with the greatest care, because it is rarely thought of but in a way of self-preference and self-complacency; and where these feelings are generated in the soul, the most incalculable injury has been sustained. We are told by St. Paul, that “they who measure themselves by... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Jeremiah 3:6

The Lord said The general character of the second message to Judah is: (1) of reproach that the example of Jehovah's chastening of the northern kingdom 2 Kings 17:1-18 had produced no effect upon Judah, e.g. Jeremiah 3:6-10. (2) of warning of a like chastisement impending over Judah, e.g. Jeremiah 3:15-17. (3) of touching appeals to return to Jehovah, e.g. Jeremiah 3:12-14. (4) of promises of final national restoration and blessing, e.g. Jeremiah 3:16-18. Israel "Israel" and "Ephraim": names by... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:1-25

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 her again? shall not the land be greatly polluted? ( Jeremiah 3:1 )Under the law if you divorce your wife and she married another man, then you could not marry her again. That was under the law of Deuteronomy, chapter 24, I think it is. Yet God said, even so,you have played the harlot with many... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 3:1-25

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 a guilty people, who would ascribe those gifts to their idols. Jeremiah 3:6 . The Lord said unto me in the days of Josiah, when idolatry had prevailed for fifty years, from Manasseh’s ascension to the throne to the minority of this young king: nor could the king wholly suppress it during his... read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 3:7

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 3:8

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 3:9

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 3:10

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 3:11

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jeremiah 3:1-25

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Jeremiah 3:11

Scofield's Reference Notes - Jeremiah 3:6

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:1-25

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 3:1-25

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