Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 30:1-2
The Lord instructed Jeremiah to write all the messages that He had given the prophet in a book. read more
The Lord instructed Jeremiah to write all the messages that He had given the prophet in a book. read more
The superscription 30:1-3 read more
1-9. When the gloom is deepest, deliverance shall come. 2. In a book] Thus his words would bring abiding comfort in the approaching time of exile. 3. Bring] RV ’turn.’4. Concerning Israel.. Judah] Both divisions of the kingdom of David are the subject of Jeremiah 31 : see above. 5. Of fear, and not of peace] RM ’There is fear and no peace,’ and the present circumstances are evil. There is nothing but fear and terror in the hearts and on the faces of men. 7. That day] the day of Babylon’s... read more
Jeremiah’s Seventeenth Prophecy (Reign of Zedekiah During the Siege). Israel’s HopeHitherto the general character of Jeremiah’s prophecies has been gloomy. The whole tone of this section, on the other hand, is one of hopefulness, which is the more remarkable inasmuch as it was delivered at a time when the prophet was subject to imprisonment, and famine and pestilence held possession of the city, and the prospects of the nation were at their lowest. It was under such circumstances then that it... read more
XXX.(2) Write thee all the words . . .—The opening words emphasise the fact that what follows was not spoken at first, like Jeremiah 27, 28, in the presence of the people, but was from the first committed to writing. There is no definite point at which we may be certain that the section ends, and there is room for many conjectures as to interpolations here and there, but the opening of Jeremiah 32:0 suggests the conclusion that it takes in the whole of Jeremiah 30, 31. The general character of... read more
CHAPTER XXXIVRESTORATION VREVIEWJeremiah 30:1-24; Jeremiah 31:1-40; Jeremiah 32:1-44; Jeremiah 33:1-26IN reviewing these chapters we must be careful not to suppose that Jeremiah knew all that would ultimately result from his teaching. When he declared that the conditions of the New Covenant would be written, not in a few parchments, but on every heart, he laid down a principle which involved the most characteristic teaching of the New Testament and the Reformers, and which might seem to justify... read more
The Glorious Future of the Nation (30-31) CHAPTER 30 1. The time of Jacob’s trouble (Jeremiah 30:1-11 ) 2. Zion’s desperate condition and the promise of deliverance (Jeremiah 30:12-17 ) 3. Restoration and glory (Jeremiah 30:18-24 ) Jeremiah 30:1-11 . 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... read more
30:2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write for thee all the words that I have spoken to thee in a {a} book.(a) Because they would be assured and their posterity confirmed in the hope of this deliverance promised. read more
MORE MESSAGES FOR ZEDEKIAH In some respects the most important chapter here is the first, which deals with Babylon’s supremacy, and reveals the beginning of “the times of the Gentiles,” or “the fulness of the Gentiles” (Romans 11:25 ). The term refers to the period when Israel, because of her disobedience to God, has forfeited her place of power in the earth and is scattered among the nations. It begins when God transfers this power to the Gentiles as represented by Babylon, and continues... read more
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 30:2
2. Write . . . in a book—After the destruction of Jerusalem Jeremiah is not ordered as heretofore to speak, but to write the succeeding prophecy ( :-, &c.), so as thereby it might be read by his countrymen wheresoever they might be in their dispersion. read more