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Barnes' Notes on Jeremiah 30:1

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Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · 19th-century historical commentary
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In Jer. 30–39, not all written at the same time, are gathered together whatsoever God had revealed to Jeremiah of happier import for the Jewish people. This subject is “the New covenant.” In contrast then with the rolls of Jehoiakim and Zedekiah, we here have one containing the nation’s hope. A considerable portion was written in the 10th year of Zedekiah, when famine and pestilence were busy in the city, its capture daily more imminent, and the prophet himself in prison. Yet in this sad pressure of earthly troubles Jeremiah could bid his countrymen look courageously onward to the fulfillment of those hopes, which had so constantly in his darkest hours comforted the heart and nerved the arm of the Jew. The scroll consists of three portions: (1) “a triumphal hymn of Israel’s salvation,” Jer. 30–31; (2) Jeremiah 32:0; and (3) Jeremiah 33:0. return to 'Top of Page'
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