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The Personification of Apostasy
Commentators note the original Hebrew for "backsliding Israel" is incredibly forceful. It's as if God is personifying the nation as Apostasy itself. This wasn't a momentary lapse but a habitual lifestyle of rebellion, as the verb tense suggests she "goes" continually to commit idolatry.
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 3:6
18th Century
Theologian
Backsliding Israel - The original is very strong: Have you seen Apostasy? i.e., Israel: as though Israel were the very personification of th…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 3:6
19th Century
Bishop
The Lord said also unto me ... —The main point of the second prophecy (we might almost call it sermon), delivered, like the former, under …
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 3:6–7
19th Century
Preacher
The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every hi…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 3:6–8
16th Century
Theologian
Here the Prophet begins a new discourse: he relates what God had entrusted to him, and mentions the time, specifically in the reign of Josiah. It i…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 3:6
17th Century
Pastor
The Lord said also unto me, in the days of Josiah the king, &c.] For in his time Jeremiah began to prophesy, even in the …
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 3:6–11
17th Century
Minister
If we mark the crimes of those who break off from a religious profession, and the consequences, we see abundant reason to shun evil ways. It is dre…