Jeremiah 3:10

“And yet for all this, etc.] Though the two tribes saw the lightness and filthiness of the sin Israel was guilty of, and how the land was defiled with it, the stupidity of it, and the punishment inflicted on account of it: her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the Lord; there was a show of reformation in Josiah’s time, but it was but a show; there was no true, hearty cordial repentance for the sin of idolatry, only a feigned one; there was an outward removal of it, and reformation from it, but inwardly the desires of the heart were to it; the good king, with some few others, were hearty in it, but the greater part played the hypocrite;…”

“yet--notwithstanding the lesson given in Israel's case of the fatal results of apostasy. not . . . whole heart--The reformation in the eighteenth year of Josiah was not thorough on the part of the people, for at his death they relapsed into idolatry (Ch2 34:33; Hos 7:14).”

“Her treacherous sister Judith - These words are a sort of refrain, thrice Jeremiah 3:7-8, Jeremiah 3:10 repeated before God finally pronounces Judah more culpable than Israel. return to 'Top of Page'”

“And yet - Though God saw what she did, and though she saw the shameful idolatry of Israel, and what she had suffered. Jeremiah 3:12”

“3:10 Like the northern tribes of Israel, the people of Judah did not see anything immoral about idol worship; they treated the Lord’s objections lightly. The people did not really repent, but pretended to do so under the pressure of Josiah’s authority (2 Chr 34:32). Their religion was tainted with deception (Jer 12:2; Hos 7:14).”

“Judah: Ch2 34:33, 35:1-18; Psa 78:36, Psa 78:37; Isa 10:6; Hos 7:14 feignedly: Heb. in falsehood, Psa 18:44, Psa 66:3 \*marg. Jeremiah 3:11”