Jeremiah 3:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: ”

Jeremiah 3:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Children ... married - The twofold relationship gives a double certainty of acceptance. As children, they were sure of a father’s love, as a wife they might hope for a revival of past affection f...
Jeremiah 3:14 - 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...
Jeremiah 3:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Turn . Return, as in verses: Jeremiah 3:12 ; Jeremiah 3:22 . married . am become your husband. This will be the result of the Restoration here promised. family. Probably. family, or group of...
Jeremiah 3:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah repeats the same thing in other words; but God by so many words shews clearer how ready he would be to grant pardon, provided the Israelites really repented. It would have been enough...
Jeremiah 3:14 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1033 GOD’S INVITATION TO HIS PEOPLE Jeremiah 3:12-15 . Go, and proclaim these words toward the north; and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not cause mi...
Jeremiah 3:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: I will take you one of a city, and two o...
Jeremiah 3:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Turn,—for I am married, &c.— Turn—and though I have rejected you, I will take you one of a city, and two of a tribe, or country: that is to say, "I will receive you, though there should be...
Jeremiah 3:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: I am married, х baa`al ( H11...
Jeremiah 3:14 - 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...
Jeremiah 3:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Turn, O backsliding children. — In his desire to individualise his call to repentance, the prophet drops his parable, or rather combines the sign and the thing signified, with the same assonance as...
Jeremiah 3:14 - 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...
Jeremiah 3:14 - 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...
Jeremiah 3:14 - 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...
Jeremiah 3:14 - 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...
Jeremiah 3:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord ,.... All of them were children by national adoption, and some by special grace, and yet "backsliders", O monstrous ingratitude! "backsliders", and yet "...
Jeremiah 3:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: Ver. 14. Turn, O backsliding childr...
Jeremiah 3:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Turn, for I am married unto you I am in covenant with you, and this covenant, notwithstanding all your unfaithfulness, I am ready to renew with you. Hebrew, בעלתי בכם, which Blaney translates, I h...
Jeremiah 3:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Encouragements to Repentance. B. C. 620. 12 Go and proclaim these words toward the nor...
Jeremiah 3:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Turn, O backsliding children; for I am married unto you; I am in covenant with you, Deuteronomy 29:1 , Deuteronomy 29:10-12 , &c., and this covenant, notwithstanding all your unfaithfulness,...
Jeremiah 3:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

A Brief Glimpse Of The Future Establishment Of The Everlasting Kingdom ( Jeremiah 3:12-19 ). Having established that Judah was even more guilty than Israel YHWH now breaks into the message of gloo...
Jeremiah 3:14 - 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...
Jeremiah 3:14 - 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...
Jeremiah 3:14 - 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...
Jeremiah 3:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Return, thou backsliding Israel. The backslider’s return I. The invitation to return. 1. From one who (1) has been wronged ( Jeremiah 3:13 ); (2) might therefore justly be angry; (3)...
Jeremiah 3:14 - 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...
Jeremiah 3:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Call to Return
Jeremiah 3:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 34:11-14 ; Hosea 2:19 ; Hosea 2:20 ; Isaiah 1:9 ; Isaiah 10:22 ; Isaiah 11:11 ; Isaiah 11:12 ; Isaiah 17:6 ; Isaiah 24:13-15 ; Isaiah 54:5 ; Isaiah 6:13 ; Jeremiah 2:19 ; Jeremia...
Jeremiah 3:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I am married — I am in covenant with you, and this covenant notwithstanding all your unfaithfulness, I am ready to renew with you. Family — This word is taken frequently for a country or nation, an...

Jeremiah 3:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 3:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 3:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 3:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 3:14 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Jeremiah 3:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 3:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 3:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 3:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 3:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 3:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 3:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jeremiah 3:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 3:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 3:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 3:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 3:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 3:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 3:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 3:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 3:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 3:14 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 3:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 3:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 3:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 3:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 3:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 3:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes