Jeremiah 3:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah. ”

• Jeremiah 3:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Hath justified herself - Judah had had the benefit of the warning given by Israel’s example. Both abandon Yahweh’s service for idolatry, but Israel is simply “apostate,” Judah is also false. Th...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And the LORD said to me, The backsliding Israel hath (n) justified herself more than treacherous Judah. (n) Israel has not declared herself as wicked as Judah, who yet has had more admonitions and e...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Israel's Sin less than Judah's. This passage interrupts the continuity of Jeremiah 3:19 with Jeremiah 3:5 (note also the interruptive introductory formula, Jeremiah 3:6 ), and seems to be a se...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  justified herself. Compare Ezekiel 16:51 ; Ezekiel 16:52 .

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  We now see more clearly for what purpose Jeremiah compared the ten tribes with the kingdom of Judah; it was done in order to shew that the Jews, who wished to be deemed far more holy than other...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1032 COMPARATIVE CRIMINALITY Jeremiah 3:11 . And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah . THE subject of comparative crimina...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah. Backsliding Israel hath justified herself more - She was less offensive in my eyes, and more excu...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The backsliding Israel hath justified herself— Backsliding Israel hath appeared just in comparison of perfidious Judah. The crimes of the latter greatly surpassed those of the former. See Ezekie...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah. Justified herself - has been made to appear almost just (i:e., comparatively innocent) by...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Prophet Sets Forth the Sin of the Nation and Points Out the Inevitable Result (Reign of Josiah, and Probably Before the Reforms of that King: cp. Jeremiah 3:6 ) This section furnishes us with...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Hath justified herself. — Literally, hath justified her soul, has put in a better plea in her defence. The renegade was better than the traitress. Even open rebellion was better than hypocris...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER III ISRAEL AND JUDAH: A CONTRAST Jeremiah 3:6-25 ; Jeremiah 4:1-2 THE first address of our prophet was throughout of a sombre cast, and the darkness of its close was not relieved by a...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Pleading with Faithless Children Jeremiah 3:11-25 ; Jeremiah 4:1-2 The people of the northern kingdom, to whom this appeal is especially addressed, were more excusable than Judah, because thei...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Following the impeachment, the prophet appealed to the people to return. This appeal commenced with a declaration that Jehovah's love was greater than man's in that He was willing to receive back the...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Nothing can more highly illustrate the riches of grace, than what is here said, on the subject of divine mercy. Israel was about to go into Babylon, and there the Prophet is particularly directed to...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the Lord said unto me ,.... To the Prophet Jeremiah, as in Jeremiah 3:6 and at or about the same time: the backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah ; that is, wa...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah. Ver. 11. The backsliding Israel hath justified herself. ] That is, she is less guilty and faul...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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, h...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Idolatries of Israel; The Treachery of Judah. B. C. 620.       6 The L ORD said also unto m...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Was less vile, hath more to say for herself; Judah's sin being greatly aggravated compared with Israel, Ezekiel 16:51 , Ezekiel 23:11 . See Luke 18:14 . For though Israel's sins were more, and...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  YHWH Calls On Judah To Consider what Had Happened To Israel, Her Northern Neighbour, When She Had Failed To Turn Back To Him, Something That Judah Is Also Failing To Do ( Jeremiah 3:6-11 ). YHWH h...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology. Exact date of chapter uncertain. It naturally divides itself at Jeremiah 3:5 , although Dahler, Umbriet, and Neuman contend for the unity of the chapt...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  In this chapter, the sin of God's people is put in the strongest possible light. The figure used may be even said to be a coarse one, but man's sin is itself a coarse thing. The thoughts suggested in...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Jeremiah 3:3 . Therefore the showers, of the former and the latter rain, have been withheld. Other prophets make the same remark. God is not obliged to give luxuriant harvests to furnish feasts...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. Comparative criminality I. State this decision of the Lord. 1. Israel, from the time they became a distinct nation, cast off God; there...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION That this chapter (to which the first four verses of Jeremiah 4:1-24 . ought to have been attached) belongs to the time of Josiah seems to be proved by Jeremiah 3:6 , and the years...

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Call to Return

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• Jeremiah 3:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ezekiel 16:47 ; Ezekiel 16:51 ; Ezekiel 16:52 ; Ezekiel 23:11 ; Hosea 11:7 ; Hosea 4:16 ; Jeremiah 3:22 ; Jeremiah 3:8

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