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Jeremiah 33:24

The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 33:24

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

This people; i.e. not Egyptians or Babylonians (as some have supposed), but the people of Judah, regarded as alienated from Jehovah (hence the touch of disparagement), as elsewhere in Jeremiah (, ; , ; ; , etc.). There were unworthy Jews, who, seeing their nation fallen from its high estate, despaired of its deliverance and regeneration. That they should be no more, etc.; rather, so that they are no more a people—no more an independent people The "two families," of course, are the "two houses of Israel" (), i.e. the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah.

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