Jeremiah 3:6 NIV

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 3:6

Jeremiah 3:6-25 ; Jeremiah 4:1-4 is Jeremiah's Fifth prophecy. (see Book comments for Jeremiah). in the days of Josiah. This must be noted to understand the context. Israel. Here refers to the Northern Kingdom. In Jeremiah it usually refers to the whole nation. mountain . . . tree. Compare Jeremiah 2:20 , and Hosea 4:13 . played the harlot. The whole of this refers to idolatry, chiefly because of the uncleanness connected with the phallic worship of the Canaanitish nations. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:6

"Moreover Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. And I said after she had done all these things, She will return unto me; but she returned not: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement,... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 3:6

Jeremiah 3:6. The Lord said also unto me— A new discourse begins at this verse. Jeremiah having convinced the Jews of their infidelity, idolatry, and all sorts of corruption, in the way of pleading, from the second chapter to the present verse; here the Lord, as judge, pronounces the sentence, and exhorts the Jews again to return to him. All this passed in the 18th year of Josiah, when the Jews were again plunged into the greatest irregularities. Backsliding Israel, means the ten tribes. See... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 3:6

6. :-, is a new discourse, delivered in Josiah's reign. It consists of two parts, the former extending to :-, in which he warns Judah from the example of Israel's doom, and yet promises Israel final restoration; the latter a threat of Babylonian invasion; as Nabopolassar founded the Babylonian empire, 625 B.C., the seventeenth of Josiah, this prophecy is perhaps not earlier than that date (Jeremiah 4:5; Jeremiah 5:14; Jeremiah 6:1; Jeremiah 22:1-30); and probably not later than the second... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 3:1-25

Aspects of false religion 7:1-8:3All the messages in this section deal with departure from the Lord in religious practices, either in pagan rites or in the perversion of the proper worship of Yahweh that the Mosaic Law specified. All the material in this section fits conditions in Judah after 609 B.C., when Jehoiakim began allowing a return to pagan practices after the end of Josiah’s reforms. Another feature of this section is the large amount of prose material it contains, much more than the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 3:6

Yahweh previously had a conversation with Jeremiah along the same lines that took place during the reign of King Josiah (between 627 and 609 B.C.). This section may have been a shorter oracle that the writer used to compose the final written sermon. The Lord asked the prophet if he had observed that the Northern Kingdom of Israel had been guilty of flagrant spiritual prostitution. He described the Northern Kingdom as "faithless Israel," literally "Apostasy (Heb. meshuba) Israel" (cf. Jeremiah... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 3:6-10

The persistent harlotry of Israel and Judah 3:6-10 read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:1-25

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. Jer 3:6)This section furnishes us with the gist of the prophet's testimony during the early years of his ministry, and doubtless represents the commencement of the roll written by Baruch at Jeremiah's dictation. In these five chapters he lays before his hearers the grossness of their conduct in deserting Jehovah, and urges repentance and amendment... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:6-25

Jeremiah's Third Prophecy. The Fate of the Ten Tribes a Warning to JudahIn this prophecy, as in the last, idolatry is denounced under the figure of unfaithfulness to the marriage vow. But as a marked distinction, God here invites to repentance, and on this there hinges pardon.6-20. Israel and Judah have both forsaken their Divine Spouse, but forgiveness will follow repentance.7-11. Samaria, the capital of the kingdom of the Ten Tribes, after a stubborn resistance had been captured by Sargon,... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 3:6

(6) The Lord said also unto me . . .—The main point of the second prophecy (we might almost call it sermon), delivered, like the former, under Josiah, is the comparison of the guilt of the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The latter had been looking on the former with contemptuous scorn. She is now taught—the same imagery being continued that had begun in the first discourse—that her guilt is by far the greater of the two.Backsliding Israel.—The epithet strikes the keynote of all that follows,... read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 3:6

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:6

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 3:6

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 3:6

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 3:1-25

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 3:6

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 3:6-10

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:1-25

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:6-25

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 3:6

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