Jer 3:17, 10:7, Luk 1:32-33 | JFB | STEP | 17. Jerusalem — the whole city, not merely the temple. As it has been the center of the Hebrew theocracy, so it shall be the point of attraction to the whole earth ( ). throne of . . . Lord —The Shekinah, the symbol of God's peculiar nearness to Israel ( ) shall be surpassed by the antitype, God's own throne in Jerusalem ( ). imagination —rather, as Margin, "the obstinacy" or stubbornness.

Jeremiah 3:17

17. Jerusalem—the whole city, not merely the temple. As it has been the center of the Hebrew theocracy, so it shall be the point of attraction to the whole earth (Isa 2:2-4; Zec 2:10, 11; 14:16-21).

throne of . . . Lord—The Shekinah, the symbol of God's peculiar nearness to Israel (De 4:7) shall be surpassed by the antitype, God's own throne in Jerusalem (Ps 2:6, 8; Eze 34:23, 24; Zec 2:5).

imagination—rather, as Margin, "the obstinacy" or stubbornness.

Jeremiah 10:7

7. (Re 15:4).

to thee doth it appertain—to Thee it properly belongs, namely, that Thou shouldest be "feared" (taken out of the previous "fear Thee") (compare Eze 21:27). He alone is the becoming object of worship. To worship any other is unseemly and an infringement of His inalienable prerogative.

none—nothing whatever (see on Jer 10:6; Ps 89:6).

Luke 1:32-33

32, 33. This is but an echo of the sublime prediction in Isa 9:6, 7.