Jeremiah 3:6-8 NIV

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 3:8

Jeremiah 3:8. And I saw As if he had said, That which others discerned not, I saw perfectly; namely, both her hypocrisy and her incorrigibleness, notwithstanding what had befallen Israel, whose correction should have instructed and reformed her. When for all the causes The various idolatries and other sins, for which I had given her That is, Israel; a bill of divorce Delivered her up into the hands of the Assyrians, and thereby taken from her the title of being my church; yet her... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:6-18

Need for true repentance (3:6-18)King Josiah had tried to reform Judah, but because people had not changed inwardly, the reformation affected only the external forms of religion. Looking from God’s viewpoint, Jeremiah calls the people’s so-called repentance a pretence (see v. 10). Judah had seen her sister nation Israel divorced from God and sent into captivity because of her spiritual adultery, but Israel’s experience taught her nothing. She is now doing what Israel did. In accepting Josiah’s... read more

E.W. Bullinger

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

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 3:7

Turn thou unto Me: or, "Unto Me she will return". read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 3:8

And I saw. In transcribing from the ancient characters, Aleph (= a) was perhaps taken for Tau (= t), the two letters differing only in one minute stroke (=) and (=). This shows that the primitive reading was = "Though she saw". The Vulg, has preserved the ancient reading, which the Revised Version has put in the margin. given her a bill, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 24:1 ). Compare Isaiah 50:1 .Mark 10:4 . 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

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 3:8

Jeremiah 3:8. And I saw, &c.— And I saw when on account of the adultery which backsliding Israel had committed, &c. Houbigant renders the words, I saw, in the third person; Nay, though she saw, that l had put away backsliding Israel, for all the adulteries, &c. 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

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 3:7

7. I said— ( :-). sister— (Ezekiel 16:46; Ezekiel 23:2; Ezekiel 23:4). read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 3:8

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:6-18

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

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 3:7

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 3:8

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:6

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

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 3:8

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

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 3:7

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