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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 3:1-5

These verses some make to belong to the sermon in the foregoing chapter, and they open a door of hope to those who receive the conviction of the reproofs we had there; God wounds that he may heal. Now observe here, I. How basely this people had forsaken God and gone a whoring from him. The charge runs very high here. 1. They had multiplied their idols and their idolatries. To have admitted one strange God among them would have been bad enough, but they were insatiable in their lustings after... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 3:6-11

The date of this sermon must be observed, in order to the right understanding of it; it was in the days of Josiah, who set on foot a blessed work of reformation, in which he was hearty, but the people were not sincere in their compliance with it; to reprove them for that, and warn them of the consequences of their hypocrisy, is the scope of that which God here said to the prophet, and which he delivered to them. The case of the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah is here compared, the ten tribes... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:1

They say, if a man put away his wife ,.... Or, "saying" F23 לאמור "dicendo", Montanus, Vatablus, Janius & Tremellius. ; wherefore some connect those words with the last verse of the preceding chapter, as if they were a continuation of what the Lord had been there saying, that he would reject their confidences; so Kimchi; but they seem rather to begin a new section, or a paragraph, with what were commonly said among men, or in the law, and as the sense of that; that if a man... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:2

Lift up thine eyes unto the high places ,.... Where idols were set and worshipped; either places naturally high, as hills and mountains, which were chosen for this service; or high places, artificially made and thrown up for this purpose; see 2 Kings 17:9 , Jarchi interprets the word שפים of "rivulets of water"; and so the Targum, where also idolatry was committed: and see where thou hast not been lien with ; see if there is a hill or mountain, or any high place, where thou hast not... read more

John Gill

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

Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain ,.... There were two seasons of the year when rain in common fell upon the land of Israel, called the former and the latter rain, and both are designed here. The former by רביבים , "showers", so called from the multitude of drops in them: these showers, or the former rain, used to fall in the month Marchesvan, which answers to part of our October; it was in autumn, at the fall of the year, at seedtime, when... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:4

Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me ,.... These words are either a confirmation and proof of that impudence with which these people are charged; for had they not been impudent, or had not a forehead like a whorish woman; or were they truly ashamed, they would have cried to the Lord henceforward; called upon him; claimed their relation to him; and owned his favours in time past: or, if they had not been impudent, they would not have dared from this time to have called God their Father... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:5

Will he reserve his anger for ever ?.... These words may be considered as a continuation of the speech put into their mouths to make to the Lord and plead with him, as well as what follows: will he keep it to the end ? that is, his anger: no; he will not: this is not according to the nature of God; he retains not his anger for ever, Micah 7:18 , though, according to some versions, this is to be understood of the sins of these people being reserved and kept forever, as their impudence... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:6

The Lord said also unto me, in the days of Josiah the king ,.... For in his time Jeremiah began to prophesy, even in the thirteenth year of his reign, Jeremiah 1:2 , hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done ? the ten tribes; that is, hast thou not heard? or dost thou not know the idolatry of the ten tribes, which was the cause of their captivity? as Kimchi explains it; for the facts, or the idolatrous actions of the ten tribes, were not done in Josiah's and Jeremiah's... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:7

And I said, after she had done these things ,.... All these idolatries, in the several places mentioned, after she had repeated them over and over; the Lord sent to them by the Prophets Hosea, Amos, Micah, and others, who prophesied before the captivity of the ten tribes, and entreated them, saying, turn unto me : to my worship, as the Targum; from their idols, to him the living God; they were not without admonitions, exhortations, and declarations of grace, and so were without excuse: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:8

And I saw, when for all the causes, whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery ,.... Not only Judah saw, but God, who sees all things, saw the idolatry of the ten tribes which apostatized from him, and all the springs, causes, reasons, and occasions of it, and its consequences; and also the treachery, hardness, and idolatry of Judah: I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce ; as men did, when they put away their wives, as they might lawfully do in case of adultery; and here... read more

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