Jeremiah 3:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

At that time. Referring to the future Restoration.

call Jerusalem, &c. Compare Psalms 87:2-7; Isaiah 60:1; Isaiah 65:18; Isaiah 66:7-13; Isaiah 66:20.

throne. Compare Jeremiah 14:21; 1 Samuel 2:8; Psalms 47:8 with Matthew 25:31 and Zephaniah 3:8.

all the nations. This shows that the prophecy refers to the yet future Restoration. Compare Jeremiah 1:5; Jeremiah 1:10.

the name, &c. See note on Psalms 20:1.

imagination. stubbornness. The word is used eight times by Jeremiah, but is found nowhere else outside the Pentateuch, except in Psalms 81:12. Compare Jeremiah 7:24. The reference to Pent, is in Deuteronomy 29:19.

Jeremiah 3:17

17 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: neither shall they walk any more after the imaginatione of their evil heart.