The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 3:1-25

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EXPOSITION

That this chapter (to which the first four verses of Jeremiah 4:1-31. ought to have been attached) belongs to the time of Josiah seems to be proved by Jeremiah 3:6, and the years immediately following the reformation are not obscurely referred to in Jeremiah 3:4, Jeremiah 3:10. Naegelsbach gives a striking distribution of its contents. The general subject is a call to "return." First, the prophet shows that, in spite of Deuteronomy 24:1, etc; a return is possible (Deuteronomy 24:1-5). Then he describes successively an invitation already uttered in the past, and its sad results (Deuteronomy 24:6-10), and the call which will, with a happier issue, be sounded in the future (Deuteronomy 24:11 -25); this is followed by an earnest exhortation, addressed first to Israel and then to Judah (Jeremiah 4:1-4).

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