Teks -- Jeremiah 3:7 (NET)

3:7 Yet even after she had done all that, I thought that she might come back to me. But she did not. Her sister, unfaithful Judah, saw what she did.

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JFB: Jer 3:7 - I said

(2Ki 17:13).

JFB: Jer 3:7 - sister

(Eze 16:46; Eze 23:2, Eze 23:4).

Clarke: Jer 3:7 - And I said

And I said - By the prophets Elijah, Elisha, Hosea, Amos, etc.; for all these prophesied to that rebellious people, and exhorted them to return to the Lord.

Calvin: Jer 3:7 - NO PHRASE

He afterwards adds, Yet I said; God here states, that he had long suspended his judgment before he punished the people of Israel. He then extols here his patience, that he had not immediately visited the Israelites as they deserved, but bore with them and for a long time waited to see whether they could be reclaimed: I said, then, after she had done all these things, Return to me If we read in the third person, the sense will be the same, “I hoped indeed that they would return to the right way, though they had thus fallen away, yea though they had denied me by an impious defection, and had become alienated from the faith and from piety.” But I am more inclined to another view, — that God here records the fact, that he had recalled to himself the ten tribes by his servants the Prophets, though they had by their many crimes provoked his wrath. Here then God shews how perverse the Israelites had been; for he had tried to restore them, if possible, to himself, but had spent all his labor in vain. I thus explain, I said, of the prophetic instruction: “Though then the Israelites had plunged themselves into impieties, I yet ceased not to try whether they could be restored to me.” He intimates, in short, that he had been unlike those husbands, who will not be reconciled to their wives, burning with jealousy, because they see that they had been exposed to so much disgrace. God then shews that though the Israelites had departed from him, he yet sent his prophets, and of his own free will sought reconciliation with them, but that they had refused to return. ⁷⁸

He then adds, See did she, that is, the whole kingdom of Judah, that, for al1 this, because the rebellious Israel had played the harlot, etc. We shall hereafter find the design of this comparison; for he amplifies the sin of the kingdom of Judah, inasmuch she had time enough to observe what he now relates, and was able to see it at a distance as it were from a watchtower; yet she saw it without any advantage. God then intended to shew how great was the hardness of the Jews, who had seen the defection of the ten tribes, and had seen how severely they had been reproved by the prophets.

TSK: Jer 3:7 - Turn thou // her treacherous

Turn thou : 2Ki 17:13, 2Ki 17:14; 2Ch 30:6-12; Hos 6:1-4, Hos 14:1

her treacherous : Jer 3:8-11; Eze 16:46, Eze 23:2-4

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Poole: Jer 3:7 - Turn thou unto me // Her treacherous sister Judah

Turn thou unto me viz. by repentance, Act 3:19 . Although she had been so vile and abominable, yet the Lord waited in expectation of her return.

Her treacherous sister Judah: Benjamin is also here comprised, but Judah being the chief is only named, these two abiding together after the other ten revolted to Jeroboam; called Israel’ s

sister because they were all descended from the patriarch Jacob, Eze 16:46 ; compare Eze 23:2,4 ; and treacherous, or the treacherous one , because of her frequent revolts, 2Ch 21:6 , &c.; 2Ch 24:17,18 , and many other times, and after as frequent renewed covenants and promises, both in conjunction with the rest of the tribes, Deu 5:2,3,23 , &c.; Deu 29:10-12 , &c., and afterwards, 2Ch 13:9,10 , &c.; 2Ch 15:12 , &c.; 2Ch 23 16 29:10 . Saw it , i.e. they were not strangers to it, but knew it, as the word is, Psa 40:3 . They could not but know how I had dealt with Israel.

Gill: Jer 3:7 - And I said, after she had done these things // turn unto me // but she returned not // and her treacherous sister Judah saw it

And I said, after she had done these things,.... All these idolatries, in the several places mentioned, after she had repeated them over and over; the Lord sent to them by the Prophets Hosea, Amos, Micah, and others, who prophesied before the captivity of the ten tribes, and entreated them, saying,

turn unto me: to my worship, as the Targum; from their idols, to him the living God; they were not without admonitions, exhortations, and declarations of grace, and so were without excuse:

but she returned not; to fear and serve the Lord, but remained in idolatry, obstinate and inflexible:

and her treacherous sister Judah saw it; her treachery and breach of covenant, as the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions add, for explanation sake; Judah, or the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and who were allied to the ten tribes by birth and by religion, and equally treacherous to God, the husband of them both, saw all the idolatry of Israel, and the aggravations of it, and what followed upon it, namely, their captivity in Babylon, yet did not learn and take warning hereby.