Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 3:13
Acknowledge - literally, “know thy iniquity;” know that thy doings are iniquitous.Scattered thy ways - Wandered in search of those idolatries which foreign nations practice. read more
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Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 3:14
Children ... married - The twofold relationship gives a double certainty of acceptance. As children, they were sure of a father’s love, as a wife they might hope for a revival of past affection from the husband of their youth.One of a city, and two of a family - The family (in Hebrew) is far larger than a city, as it embraces all the descendants of a common ancestor. Thus, the tribe of Judah was divided into only four or five families. However national the apostasy, it does not involve in its... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 3:6
Jeremiah 3:6 . Then the Lord said unto me “Here begins an entire new section, or distinct prophecy, which is continued to the end of the sixth chapter. It consists of two distinct parts. The first part contains a complaint against Judah for having exceeded the guilt of her sister Israel, whom God had already cast off for her idolatrous apostacy, Jeremiah 3:6-12. The prophet is hereupon sent to announce to Israel the promise of pardon upon her repentance, and the hopes of a glorious... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 3:7
Jeremiah 3:7. After she had done all these things For which she might justly have been abandoned; I said, Turn thou unto me Namely, and I will receive thee. Though they had forsaken both the house of David and the house of Aaron, who both had their authority from God without dispute, yet God sent his prophets among them to call them to return to him, that is, to the worship of him only, not insisting so much upon their return to the house of David as to that of Aaron. We do not read that... read more
Joseph Benson
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
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 3:9-10
Jeremiah 3:9-10. And through the lightness of her whoredom “By this phrase,” says Blaney, “I take to be meant, that she was not nice in the choice of the objects, but was ready to prostitute herself to all that came in her way; that is, she eagerly fell in with all kinds of idolatrous worship indiscriminately, descending so low as to images of wood and stone.” That she defiled the land Brought the whole land under the guilt of idolatry. Yet for all this Though God saw what she did, and... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 3:11
Jeremiah 3:11. And the Lord said unto me, &c. The case of these sister kingdoms is here compared, and judgment given upon the comparison. Israel hath justified herself more than Judah Hebrew, צדקה נפשׁה , hath justified her soul: so the LXX. εδικαιωσε την ψυχην , and the Vulgate. The meaning is, that of the two, Judah was the more guilty, because, though Israel’s sins were more numerous, and their idolatry had continued longer, yet in Judah that and other sins were more heinous,... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 3:12-13
Jeremiah 3:12-13. Go, and proclaim these words toward the north “The sin of the ten tribes being attended with more favourable circumstances than that of Judah, the prophet is commanded to call them to repentance with promises of pardon. In order to this he is bid to direct his speech northward, that is, toward Assyria and Media, whither the ten tribes had been carried away captive, which countries lay north of Judea.” And say: Return, thou backsliding Israel Repent of thy backslidings,... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 3:14
Jeremiah 3:14. Turn, for I am married unto you I am in covenant with you, and this covenant, notwithstanding all your unfaithfulness, I am ready to renew with you. Hebrew, בעלתי בכם , which Blaney translates, I have been a husband among you; observing, that God hereby “means to remind them that he had fulfilled the covenant on his part, by protecting and blessing them, as he had promised when he engaged to be their God: and therefore, as they had never any reason to complain of him, he... read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 3:12
The north - The ten tribes, settled by Salmanezer in the north of Assyria.I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you - literally, I will not cause my face “to fall upon you:” i. e., “I will not receive you with averted looks.” The “and” before this clause should be omitted, as also before the next clause, “I will not keep ...”I will not keep - All God’s promises and threats are conditional upon man’s conduct. read more