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Verses 7-8

In those coming days (cf. Jeremiah 23:5), people would no longer talk about the mighty deliverance that Yahweh gave His people when He brought them out of Egypt into the Promised Land (cf. Jeremiah 16:14-15). Instead they would talk about the greater deliverance that He gave them when He brought them out of many countries (cf. Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 16:14-18) into the Promised Land (cf. Isaiah 11; Ezekiel 34; Ezekiel 37). Again, the promises are clearly eschatological. This will happen at Jesus Christ’s second coming when He subdues His earthly enemies and re-gathers the Jews to their land. [Note: See Kaiser, pp. 108-10.] Amillennialists see the fulfillment happening in the return from exile and in the first advent of Christ. [Note: Thompson, p. 492, for example, referred to 2 Kings 17:6 as evidence that the exiles went into many countries, but that verse describes cities and lands within the larger territory of Assyria and, later, Babylonia.]

The section Jeremiah 21:1 to Jeremiah 23:8 dealt primarily with oracles against kings. Now the subject becomes the false prophets in Jerusalem (Jeremiah 23:9-40).

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