Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? c. Will you not from this time cry to Me: God told Israel what they should do. Sin is turning aside to crooked ways. You shall call Me, “my Father,” and not turn away from Me: Answering His own question, God pointed to an inner transformation that would take place among His people, despite their past treachery. i. The words of Jeremiah 3:21-22 show several things about backsliding. They were terribly wrong; their pursuit out of God’s will left them less satisfied than before. False gods are always abusive.” (Ryken) (Deuteronomy 28:30, Isaiah 13:16, where the word is translated ravished). And yet ( v. 3 ), "Thou hadst a whore’s forehead, a brazen face of thy own. a. It shall not come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they visit it, nor shall it be made anymore. Would not that land be greatly polluted? “That shameful thing, Baal hath done it (chapter 11:13; Hosea 9:10); he hath even eaten up our cattle and our children, of whom, it any be left, yet there is nothing left for them.” (Trapp). The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: "Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? range of evangelical traditions, all of the ideas and principles conveyed 4. Will not this grace of God overcome thee? With your harlotries and your wickedness.”. When you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days…they will say no more, “The ark of the covenant of the Lord”: Jeremiah looked forward to Israel’s ultimate restoration, marked by gathering in the land and by the presence of the Lord Himself, not merely the representation of God seen in the ark of the covenant of the Lord. Johannine Writings Where have you not lain with men? Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, In 11:13 Baal and shame are identified.” (Feinberg), ii. Jeremiah spoke in specific detail of the coming judgments to Judah through conquering by other nations a 70-year exile to a foreign land. -------------------- i. Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapters 4 to 6 Chapters 7 to 9 Chapter 10 Chapters 11 and 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 ... Chapter 52 was not written by Jeremiah. Their conscience was dead to its proper workings. “The ‘shameful’ thing (v. 24, the article is emphatic in the Hebrew) is Baal, the god of shame. Will He remain angry forever? From our youth even to this day, ( CC) like a ravenous lion. (Jer 3:3-5) The penalty of their sin and how they should have repented. As Jeremiah had declared in 37:17, King Zedekiah was captured and his son murdered in his presence, he was blinded, bound and dragged off to Babylon in captivity. The Blue Letter Bible ministry and the BLB Institute hold to the historical, It is a difficult enquiry, and of small practical value." I wont allow it.”, ii. This honesty was what Judah lacked and was the key to Israel’s restoration to right relationship. Jeremiah Chapter 3 Lessons from the text. 2. And have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.". The Old Testament God gives Israel (and the over-hearing residents of Judah) a model of repentance in Jeremiah 3:19-25. “He that repenteth with a contradiction, saith Tertullian, God will pardon him with a contradiction. The ark of the covenant was not found after the captivity. 4. The labor of our fathers from our youth? No more shall they follow the dictates of their evil hearts.". Yet return to Me," says the Lord. And there has been no latter rain. Jeremiah seems to have in mind the command in Deuteronomy 24:1-4 which says that when a man divorces his wife and she becomes the wife of another man, she must not return again to her first husband. The vision of the cooking pot. -------------------- Truly, in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, b. of Scripture. ©2014 David Guzik – No distribution beyond personal use without permission. declares the Lord. c. We lie down in our shame, and our reproach covers us: This shame was constant and could not be done away with until the children of Israel genuinely repented and returned to the Lord. God’s people had fallen into idolatry and worshipping other gods, even heathenistic practices such as child sacrifice. (12-20) The children of Israel express their sorrow and repentance. ii. ii. These promises are fully to come to pass in the bringing back the Jews in after-ages. Thou repentest, and yet continuest in thy sins. Yet here He says to both Israel and Judah, “I am married to you.” God was willing to ignore the previous divorce if they would only return to Him. But you have played the harlot with many lovers; Deuteronomy 24:4 says, her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance. This inner transformation is another feature of the new covenant. The New Testament Actually, Jeremiah is nowhere to be found in chapter 52. O house of Israel," says the Lord. 2 The word of the Lord came to him in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah, 3 and through the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, down to the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the … For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands … Johannine Writings Now pardon is proclaimed, wilt thou not take the benefit? Error: Passwords should have at least 6 characters, Error: Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. The house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel: Long before, the twelve tribes of Israel split into two competing kingdoms. We should be generous in our assessment of someone’s repentance. Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also. There is no excuse or explanation given. i. Jeremiah cries out in pain, saying that the horrible fate destined for his people is really upsetting him. I am constantly asked to decide for people whether they ever were true Christians, or were in error about their condition. Luke-Acts GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point The Gospels General Epistles Weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: Jeremiah prophetically saw Israel in true repentance, crying out to God from their desolation. -------------------- Major Prophets They not only polluted themselves, but their land, with their whoredoms and with their wickedness ( v. 2 ); for it was universal and unpunished, and so became a national sin. Their sons and their daughters. i. i. A summary of Jeremiah 3 from @biblesummary. “The ark will not be restored because it will no longer be necessary as a symbol of God’s presence. God connected disobedience to this law regarding remarriage to a defilement of the land, making it greatly polluted. The verb ‘return’ (sob) in the last line of v. 1 is an infinitive that may allow for more than one rendering.” (Feinberg). Prophets "Then it shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days," says the Lord, "that they will say no more, 'The ark of the covenant of the Lord.' And from the multitude of mountains; shall not that land be greatly polluted? ii. Poetical Books Minor Prophets Like an Arabian in the wilderness: “Jeremiah likened the national preoccupation with licentiousness to an Arab freebooter waiting in concealment to plunder a passing caravan, or to a wayside prostitute soliciting clients.” (Harrison) Sin wasn’t searching for them; they searched for it. For they have perverted their way; All Rights Reserved. b. 31 “You of this generation, consider the word of the Lord: “Have I been a desert to Israel. And our reproach covers us. True penitents learn to call sin death and ruin, and to charge upon it all they suffer. The king had wrought with a true passion for righteousness, but as Huldah, the prophetess, had told him, the reforms, so far as the people were concerned, were unreal, they did not touch the deepest things in life.” (Morgan), iv. That you have transgressed against the Lord your God, And I will heal your backslidings." i. This completes the exile of both kingdoms, the Northern Kingdom in 722 B.C. Thank you for registering. How can I put you among the children and give you a pleasant land: Rhetorically, God asked how backsliding Israel and treacherous Judah could receive such a blessing as the restoration to the land. a. In those days: In the previous lines (Jeremiah 3:16-17) God promised many of the features that would later be developed in the promise of the new covenant. (21-25). c. And they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given: The promise of return to the land is again promised to both Judah and Israel. May he return to her again?' John 3:16, Jesus faith love), The Whole Bible Chapter 3. Here there is no promise that God would restore the northern kingdom to its land and realm. Truly, in the Lord our God We and our fathers, • Chapter 3, we see Jeremiah expressing his troubled spirit and suffering in gloom. Every chapter of the Bible in 140 characters or less. “This is followed by the recitation of an ideal confession for the sinning people. "But I said: I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. God will gather them to the land again. The Old Testament The sense behind it was that it made the ideas of both marriage and divorce seem of little consequence, as if one might say: “I can divorce her, and remarry her later if I want to.” God wanted to speak that thinking and say, “No you can’t treat divorce and remarriage so casually. “He says, ‘Return, ye backsliding children.’ I notice that he does not say, ‘Return, ye penitent children.’ He pictures you in your worst colors, yet he says, ‘Return, ye backsliding children.’ I notice also that he does not say, ‘Heal your wounds first, and then come back to me;’ but he says, ‘Return, ye backsliding children,’ with all your backslidings unhealed, – ‘and I will heal your backslidings. Minor Prophets Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the prison, saying, “Thus says the LORD who made it, the LORD who formed it to establish it (the LORDis His name): ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’” a. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point Luke-Acts A voice was heard on the desolate heights, To alien deities under every green tree, a. 'Yes, we will come to you, for you are the LORD our God. At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: Even to that very city that had become like a harlot, and was full of abominations. Historical Books -------------------- For shame has devoured God will graciously receive those that return to him; and by his grace, he takes them out from among the rest. By sin we bring ourselves into trouble. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point • In chapter 50, God promises to rescue His nation from captivity. Others (such as the NASB and ESV) translate it as an accusation, God accusing Israel of wanting to return to Him lightly or wrongly. a. It’s not to say that only the first 51 chapters of this book are breathed out by God. The Old Testament In order to have written the account found in chapter 52, Jeremiah would have been in … And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. generations like those of today. Is the salvation of Israel. a. The son of a priest from the small town of Anathoth in Judah, the Major Prophets Luke-Acts For shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth – their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters: Upon those altars to pagan gods upon the hills, generations of Israelis sacrificed their flocks and herds and even their sons and daughters (figuratively and sometimes literally). (Jer 3:1) God says to His unfaithful people, “Return to Me.”. (Jer 3:6-10) God speaks to Jeremiah about backsliding Israel, treacherous Judah. Some of those ancient idol worshippers in ancient Israel went after the idols exactly for the rain and agricultural abundance they hoped their idolatry would bring. and now the Southern Kingdom in 586 B.C. d. Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but in pretense: It seemed that Judah had learned nothing from the sin and consequences that came upon the northern kingdom of Israel. Pauline Epistles GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point While he was still shut up in the court of the prison: As in Jeremiah 32, this word came to Jeremiah during the terrible final siege of the Babylonians against Jerusalem in the last years of King Z… The lineage of Jeremiah as a son of one priests among many in the village of Anathoth, of the land and tribe of Benjamin. i. The New Testament By the road … Jeremiah 1-3 New International Version (NIV) 1 The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. But you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return to Me, You have polluted the land with your harlotries and your wickedness, Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain, You have a harlot’s forehead; you refuse to be ashamed, Behold, you have spoken and done evil things, as you were able. "I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath." Let parents daily direct their children earnestly to seek this blessing. So now God follows that up by emphasizing that any repentance that hopes to result in God’s blessings must bear fruit in the lives of those who exercise it. A verification email has been sent to the address you provided. Since in the rest of the chapter God repeatedly does invite Israel to return to Him, and the thought of this return is presented in a good sense, it is best to take it as rendered in the NKJV: as a plea from God to His people for them to return to Him. Whatever thou hast said or done hitherto, wilt thou not from this time apply to me? This had special irony, because many of the pagan gods they went after were associated with weather, rain, and fertility (such as Baal and Ashtoreth). ii. "Indeed we do come to You, Return, O backsliding children: Here God speaks to both “sisters” (Jeremiah 3:7) Israel and Judah and invites them to return to Him. Jeremiah fortified for his commission Chapter#2: Israel’s Apostasy. In the days of Josiah the king: Josiah was one of the better kings of Judah, and in his reign there was an aggressive campaign to purify Israel of idolatry and to return to the Lord. And she goes from him Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a The actual glory of God in the presence of his people will be sufficient, and therefore the typical glory will not be missed.” (Feinberg). The heavens are dark, the mountains are quaking, the birds are gone, and God has laid all the cities to ruin. Neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. 30 “In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Will you not from this time cry to Me, Jeremiah was one of the priests from the town of Anathoth. God no doubt used these words from Jeremiah as part of this work. 23 Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills and mountains is a deception; surely in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. If we mark the crimes of those who break off from a religious profession, and the consequences, we see abundant reason to shun evil ways. Pentateuch Usernames should only contain letters, numbers, dots, dashes, or underscores. He is the Lord, and he only can save. Minor Prophets Would not the land be greatly polluted? Commentary on Jeremiah 3:21-25 (Read Jeremiah 3:21-25) Sin is turning aside to crooked ways. Weeping, they make their supplication. (Jer 3:2) The depth of their depravity. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point Jeremiah 3:17-18. So have you dealt treacherously with Me, On a human level it is difficult and perhaps dangerous to judge the repentance of another person. Please see Blue Letter Bible's Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. From there, he goes onto a long and illustrious career, prophesying total destruction and angering the kings of Judah, who definitely aren't interested in hearing about their imminent and gruesome demise. Pauline Epistles ‘Alas,’ says one, ‘I do not know whether I am a backslider, or whether I have been a hypocrite up till now!’ Do not argue that question at all. "Lift up your eyes to the desolate heights and see: They will come to him as the Guide of their youth: youth needs a guide. The vision of the almond tree. They come disclaiming all expectations of relief and succour from any but the Lord. c. But you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return to Me: God wanted His unfaithful people to know that though returning to the first husband might be wrong on a human level, it was not wrong between God and His people. Whatever repentance they did offer was not from the whole heart, but only in pretense. And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but in pretense," says the Lord. 24 From our youth shameful gods have consumed the fruits of our ancestors' labor-- their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters. How gently the Lord had corrected them! “The man” refers to all Israel, … So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees. As you were able.". d. I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding: After the blessing of restoration and repatriation, God promised the blessing of good and godly spiritual leadership, giving an instructive description of what leaders among God’s people should be. By the road you have sat for them d. We have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers…and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God: This is the appropriate expression of broken repentance that should mark God’s backsliding children. c. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion: God promised restoration and repatriation for the remnant that would return to Him. You refuse to be ashamed. Cookie Notice: The distinction between mere remorse and repentance is here already, in the ‘weeping and supplication. If a man divorces his wife…may he return to her again? 3. 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