Jeremiah 3:20

Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Surely as - Rather: “Just as.”
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Surely [as] a wife treacherously departeth from her (t) husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD. (t) The...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 3:19 to Jeremiah 4:4 . A Dialogue of Yahweh's Grace. This directly continues Jeremiah 3:5 , the I of Jeremiah 3:19 being emphaticall...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

husband . guide, or friend, as in Jeremiah 3:4 .
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He confirms the first clause of the preceding verse: for he had said that it could hardly be that the Jews would recover what they had lost, an...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD. Surely...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah's Third Prophecy. The Fate of the Ten Tribes a Warning to Judah In this prophecy, as in the last, idolatry is denounced under the figure...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Surely as a wife... — In the midst of the bright vision of the future there comes unbidden the thought of the dark present: the faithless wife is n...
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, a...
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 addre...
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 tha...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

A difficulty here seemeth to have arisen in the views of such unspeakable mercy; how shall the Lord, consistent with his divine perfections, take hom...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband ,.... Or, "her friend" i; who loves her, takes care of her, and provides for her, and goes...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Surely [as] a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD. Ver. 20. S...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Surely, as a wife treacherously departeth , &c. This may be rendered, As a woman is not faithful to her husband , or, her friend , as the Hebr...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Israel Returning to God; Israel Encouraged in Their Return. B. C. 620....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

God hereby telling her what she had formerly been, endeavours to engage her to what she ought to be, namely, considering her former unfaithfulness in...
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, Umbr...
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 i...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Let us read part of the 3 rd chapter of Jeremiah where God brings a solemn accusation against the two nations of Israel and Judah because they forsoo...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 3:12-14 . Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause min...
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 obl...
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 se...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Call to Return
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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²⁰ Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband,g so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.

Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 3:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 3:20