Jeremiah 31:3

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jeremiah 31:1-40

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Vide on chap. 30. These two chapters form an unbroken prophecy, “a triumphal hymn of Israel’s salvation.” The former chapter pledges the recovery from captivity of both “Israel and Judah;” this addresses “all the families of Israel,” then distinctively the ten tribes; and finally returns with separate assurances to Judah, then to Israel and Judah together.Geographical References.—Jeremiah 31:15. “Voice heard in Ramah,” a city of Benjamin, near where Rachel, the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 31:3

Jeremiah 31:3 I. Divine love is a fact; there can be no doubt of the teaching of the Scripture on this subject. The God of the Bible is a God of love, He is a Father in heaven. He cares for us, He watches over us, He guides us, He saves us. This attitude of Divine love is the very core of the Gospel. It may be said to encounter two obstacles within us: our fears at times, and then, what seems the very opposite, our pride and self-confidence. (1) The instinct of conscious guilt is fear, and when... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Jeremiah 31:3

DISCOURSE: 1068GRACIOUS INFLUENCES THE FRUIT OF ELECTING LOVEJeremiah 31:3. The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee.THERE is a most glorious connexion subsisting between the Lord and his people: He is their God, even “the God of all the families of Israel;” and they are his people, devoted altogether to his service. He is the God of every individual, as much as if no other object of his love... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 31:1-40

This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Jeremiah 31:1-40 .Now there are those who say that God has cast off Israel as a nation forever, and that all of the blessings, all of the covenants and all of the promises that God made to this nation are now fulfilled in the church. That we have become Israel after the Spirit and being spiritual Israel, God has forsaken the nation itself and is now pouring out all of the blessings that He had promised through His covenant upon the church. Now this... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 31:1-40

Jeremiah 31:1 . At the same time, namely, as the last words of the preseding chapter, in the latter day. Here the subject is glorious, and the language sublime. Jeremiah 31:3 . I have loved thee with a perpetual love. So Montanus, Pagninus, and the Munster bible read. This reading is also fully admitted by our Poole. See his Synopsis. Dilectione perpeta dilexi te. This is God’s grand promise of strong consolation to the church in her time of long captivity and trouble. Messiah is the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Jeremiah 31:3

Jeremiah 31:3I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.Everlasting loveI. Our once desolate and miserable condition by nature. Were we not captives? yea, bond-slaves? All our happiness consisted in forgetting ourselves. Everything marked us as, in the worst sense, slaves. Some of us professed to despise the opinions of men, and yet, what were we but the slaves of men? What did we pursue? Nothing but the applause of men. What were we afraid of?... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 31:3

Jer 31:3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, [saying], Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. Ver. 3. The Lord hath appeared of old unto me. ] This seemeth to be the people’s objection. a You tell us what was done of old; but these are ancient things, and little pertaining to us, who are now under a heavy captivity; iam refrixit et obsoleta videtur Dei beneficentia. Hereunto is answered, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Jeremiah 31:3

of old: Heb. from afar I have: Deuteronomy 7:7-1 Samuel :, Deuteronomy 10:15, Deuteronomy 33:3, Deuteronomy 33:26, Hosea 11:1, Malachi 1:2, Romans 9:13, 1 John 4:19 an: Psalms 103:17, Isaiah 45:17, Isaiah 54:8, Isaiah 54:9, Romans 11:28, Romans 11:29, 2 Thessalonians 2:13-Nehemiah :, 2 Timothy 1:9 with lovingkindness have I drawn: or, have I extended loving-kindness unto, Song of Solomon 1:4, Hosea 11:4, John 6:44, John 6:45, Romans 8:30, Ephesians 1:3-Deuteronomy :, Ephesians 2:4,... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 31:3

3. Of old Better, as the margin, from afar; in allusion to the sense of distance from God which would be wrought by their material separation from that sanctuary which they had always regarded as the chosen seat and special abode of Israel’s God. With lovingkindness have I drawn The marginal reading on this verse is also to be preferred: I have extended, that is, continued, lovingkindness unto thee. read more

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