Jeremiah 31:6

“For there shall be a day, etc.] The whole Gospel dispensation is “a day”, made so by the bright rising of the sun of righteousness; here it seems to design some certain fixed period of time in that dispensation, when the light of the Gospel will break out most gloriously, and it will be a clear day; as it will be when the Jews will be converted: [that] the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim; the same with the mountains of Samaria; for Samaria was the head or metropolis of Ephraim, (<230709>Isaiah 7:9); and these are the watchmen that kept the vines there, (<243105>Jeremiah 31:5); for the allusion is not to watchmen of states and cities, but to watchers of vineyards, and to such the ministers of…”

“The watchmen stationed on eminences (types of the preachers of the gospel), shall summon the ten tribes to go up to the annual feasts at Jerusalem ("Zion"), as they used to do before the revolt and the setting up of the idol calves at Dan and Beer-sheba (Eze 37:21-22). Mount Ephraim--not one single mountain, but the whole mountainous region of the ten tribes. our God--from whom we formerly revolted, but who is now our God. An earnest of that good time to come is given in the partial success of the gospel in its first preaching in Samaria (John 4:1-42; Acts 8:5-25).”

“This verse anticipates a time when the schism caused by Jeroboam is over. Ephraimite watchmen equally with the tribe of Judah watch for the new moon that they may go up to Jerusalem to keep the appointed Feasts. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Arise - This was fulfilled under the gospel; for both Galilee and Samaria received the gospel. Jeremiah 31:9”

“31:6 In the fully restored nation, the kingdom would no longer be divided (1 Kgs 12:16-29; Ezek 37:16-22).”

“a day: Jer 6:17; Isa 40:9, Isa 52:7, Isa 52:8, Isa 62:6; Eze 3:17, Eze 33:2; Hos 9:8 upon: Jer 50:19; Ch2 13:4, Ch2 30:5-11; Act 8:5-8 Arise: Jer 50:4, Jer 50:5; Ezr 1:5, Ezr 8:15-20; Isa 2:2-4, Isa 11:11-13; Hos 1:11; Mic 4:1-3; Zac 8:20-23 Jeremiah 31:7”