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Return, backsliding children, says Yahweh; for I am a husband to you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
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God's Twofold Bond of Love
Commentators emphasize the dual relationship God uses to express His commitment. By calling His people both 'backsliding children' and a wife to whom He is 'married,' God offers a double assurance of His love. This imagery shows He is both a forgiving Father and a faithful Husband, willing to restore the relationship despite their spiritual adultery.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Children ... married - The twofold relationship gives a double certainty of acceptance. As children, they were sure of a father’s l…
19th Century
Anglican
Turn, O backsliding children. — In his desire to individualize his call to repentance, the prophet drops his parable, or …
Baptist
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall…
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16th Century
Protestant
Jeremiah repeats the same thing in other words; but God, by so many words, shows more clearly how ready he would be to grant pardon, provided the I…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Turn, O backsliding children, says the Lord All of them were children by national adoption, and some by special grac…
See God's readiness to pardon sin, and the blessings reserved for gospel times. These words were proclaimed toward the north: to Israel, the ten tr…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, he calls them back from the punishment of captivity.
