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Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:6-18

Jeremiah 3:6-Job : . Israel’ s Sin less than Judah’ s.— This passage interrupts the continuity of Jeremiah 3:19 with Jeremiah 3:5 (note also the interruptive introductory formula, Jeremiah 3:6), and seems to be a separate prophecy, though it employs the predominant figure of this section, i.e. the marriage of Yahweh and His people, and is probably by Jeremiah (to Jeremiah 3:16). The northern kingdom was faithless to this marriage, through the Baal-cult; Yahweh waited for her return in vain (... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 3:16

When ye be multiplied; after the growth of the church under the Messiah. In those days; pointing at the great work of conversion that should be among them, especially in the days of the Messias, and how greatly the church should be increased by the accession of the Gentiles, a beginning whereof we read Acts 2:41; Acts 4:4. The ark; a synecdoehical expression for all the legal ceremonies, whereof the ark was a chief part: the sense is, that whole worship, with all the rites and ceremonies... 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

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

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Jeremiah 3:16

Jeremiah 3:16The ark of the covenant of the Lord.The ark of the covenantWhen inward piety is low the externals of religion are frequently cried up. Those who know nothing of God are the very people to exclaim concerning themselves and their brethren, “The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord are these.” The more phylactery, the less sanctity. On the other hand, whenever the Spirit of God is largely poured out, although the ordinances of God are carefully attended to, yet as external... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 3:16

Jer 3:16 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit [it]; neither shall [that] be done any more. Ver. 16. They shall say no more, The ark, &c. ] When the gospel shall be preached, the ancient ceremonies shall be abolished. a This was not so easily believed, and is therefore here... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Jeremiah 3:16

when: Jeremiah 30:19, Jeremiah 31:8, Jeremiah 31:27, Isaiah 60:22, Isaiah 61:4, Ezekiel 36:8-2 Kings :, Ezekiel 37:26, Hosea 1:10, Hosea 1:11, Amos 9:9, Amos 9:14, Amos 9:15, Zechariah 8:4, Zechariah 8:5, Zechariah 10:7-1 Samuel : say: Jeremiah 7:4, Zephaniah 3:11, Matthew 3:9 The ark: Isaiah 65:17, Isaiah 66:1, Isaiah 66:2, Matthew 1:11, John 4:20-Jeremiah :, Hebrews 9:9-2 Kings :, Hebrews 10:8, Hebrews 10:9, Hebrews 10:19-Ecclesiastes : to mind: Heb. upon the heart that be done: or, it... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Jeremiah 3:16

And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.Multiplied — After the growth of the church under the Messiah.The ark — That whole worship with all the rites and ceremonies belonging to it shall cease, Christ being come, who was the substance of what... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:16

16. No more, The ark, etc. They shall not want the symbol, because they have the high and glorious reality. They shall not need the tables of stone, for God shall write the law on the tables of their hearts. They shall no longer need the symbolized presence of Jehovah, for Jerusalem shall be his throne and dwellingplace. This passage has an exact parallel ina higher plane in Revelation 21:22. “And I saw no temple therein.” Heaven, as has been well said, will be “a templeless, because an... read more

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