Jeremiah 31:1-12

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 31:1-9

God here assures his people, I. That he will again take them into a covenant relation to himself, from which they seemed to be cut off. At the same time, when God's anger breaks out against the wicked (Jer. 30:24), his own people shall be owned by him as the children of his love: I will be the God (that is, I will show myself to be the God) of all the families of Israel (Jer. 31:1),?not of the two tribes only, but of all the tribes,?not of the house of Aaron only, and the families of Levi, but... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 31:10-17

This paragraph is much to the same purport with the last, publishing to the world, as well as to the church, the purposes of God's love concerning his people. This is a word of the Lord which the nations must hear, for it is a prophecy of a work of the Lord which the nations cannot but take notice of. Let them hear the prophecy, that they may the better understand and improve the performance; and let those that hear it themselves declare it to others, declare it in the isles afar off. It will... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 31:1

At the same time, saith the Lord ,.... The time of the Messiah, the Gospel dispensation, the latter days; when the Jews shall consider the prophecies of the Old Testament, and observe how they have been fulfilled in Jesus; and shall reflect upon their disbelief and rejection of him; and shall turn unto him, and serve the Lord their God, and David their king; see Jeremiah 30:9 ; will I be the God of all the families of Israel ; not of some few persons only, or of one of a city, and two... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 31:2

Thus saith the Lord, the people which were left of the sword ,.... Which were not consumed by the sword of Pharaoh, who perished not through his cruel edicts, and by his sword, when drawn at the Red sea; nor by the sword of the Amalekites and Amorites; or of their own brethren, who sometimes, for their sins, were ordered to slay many, as on account of the molten calf, and joining to Baalpeor: but there was a remnant that escaped, who found grace in the wilderness ; in the sight of God,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 31:3

The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying ,.... Either to the prophet, bidding him say to the church what follows, so Jarchi: or to Christ, who was from eternity with the Father; lay in his bosom; between whom the council of peace was; with whom the covenant was made; and whom God loved before the foundation of the world; and which is observed by him, for the comfort of his people, John 17:24 ; so Cocceius; but rather they are the words of Israel, or the church, owning the above... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 31:4

Again, I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel ,.... The same with "all the families of Israel", Jeremiah 31:1 ; who, when converted, will be espoused to Christ as a chaste virgin; have a sincere affection for him; unfeigned faith in him, and purely worship him; receiving the pure doctrines of the Gospel, and submitting to the ordinances of it; and then will the church, comparable to a building, consisting of lively stones, laid upon the foundation Christ, which is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 31:5

Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria ,.... Mountains are proper places for vines, and which generally produce the best wine; but vines are not to be understood merely literally, or as only expressive of the outward peace, plenty, and prosperity of Samaria, with other places given to the Jews, as Josephus F11 Antiqu. Jud. l. 13. c. 2. sect. 3. observes they were by the Demetrii; which they might improve by planting vines, &c.; but figuratively of the planting of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 31:6

For there shall be a day ,.... The whole Gospel dispensation is "a day", made so by the bright rising of the sun of righteousness; here it seems to design some certain fixed period of time in that dispensation, when the light of the Gospel will break out most gloriously, and it will be a clear day; as it will be when the Jews will be converted: that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim ; the same with the mountains of Samaria; for Samaria was the head or metropolis of Ephraim, Isaiah... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 31:7

For thus saith the Lord, sing with gladness for Jacob ,.... For the restoration of Jacob, or the conversion of the Jews; which will be matter of joy to the Christians among the Gentiles; who seem to be here called upon to express their joy on that occasion, as they will; for it will be to them as life from the dead, Romans 11:15 . Kimchi thinks there is a trajection in the words; and that they may be rendered, "thus saith the Lord to Jacob, sing with gladness"; as if the exhortation was to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 31:8

Behold, I will bring them from the north country ,.... As from Babylon, at the end of the seventy years' captivity, which lay north of Judea; so, in the latter day, from those northern countries, as ours, where they now are in great numbers: and gather them from the coasts of the earth ; or "sides" of it; from all the parts of the world where they are: and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together ; signifying that no... read more

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