Jer 3:17-18 | 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 3:17-18

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.

18. Judah . . . Israel . . . together—Two distinct apostasies, that of Israel and that of Judah, were foretold (Jer 3:8, 10). The two have never been united since the Babylonish captivity; therefore their joint restoration must be still future (Isa 11:12, 13; Eze 37:16-22; Ho 1:11).

north— (Jer 3:12).

land . . . given . . . inheritance— (Am 9:15).