Jer 3:6 | JFB | STEP | 6. , is a new discourse, delivered in Josiah's reign. It consists of two parts, the former extending to , in which he warns Judah from the example of Israel's doom, and yet promises Israel final restoration; the latter a threat of Babylonian invasion; as Nabopolassar founded the Babylonian empire, 625 B.C. , the seventeenth of Josiah, this prophecy is perhaps not earlier than that date ( ); and probably not later than the second thorough reformation in the eighteenth year of the same reign. backsliding —literally, "apostasy"; not merely apostate, but apostasy itself, the essence of it ( ).

Jeremiah 3:6

6. Jer 3:6-6:30, is a new discourse, delivered in Josiah's reign. It consists of two parts, the former extending to Jer 4:3, in which he warns Judah from the example of Israel's doom, and yet promises Israel final restoration; the latter a threat of Babylonian invasion; as Nabopolassar founded the Babylonian empire, 625 B.C., the seventeenth of Josiah, this prophecy is perhaps not earlier than that date (Jer 4:5, &c.; Jer 5:14, &c.; Jer 6:1, &c.; Jer 22:1-30); and probably not later than the second thorough reformation in the eighteenth year of the same reign.

backsliding—literally, "apostasy"; not merely apostate, but apostasy itself, the essence of it (Jer 3:14, 22).