Jer 50:4-10 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Jer 50:4-10: 50:4-10 This poetic interlude was a message of hope for the Israelite exiles in Babylon in contrast to the judgment and oppression they had been experiencing. The divine Judge is also the divine Savior. 50:4 In those coming days: In 538, 458, and 445 BC , some exiles of Israel moved back to their homeland. • The people of Israel and Judah would come weeping with joy and repentance, choosing to worship the Lord their God instead of worshiping idols.

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d31:23-34►

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f1 Kgs 12:25–13:34►

g2 Kgs 21:1-18►

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‏ Jeremiah 50:4-10

Summary for Jer 50:4-10: 50:4-10 ^a This poetic interlude was a message of hope for the Israelite exiles in Babylon in contrast to the judgment and oppression they had been experiencing. The divine Judge is also the divine Savior. 50:4 ^b In those coming days: In 538, 458, and 445 BC, some exiles of Israel moved back to their homeland.

• The people of Israel and Judah would come weeping with joy and repentance, choosing to worship the Lord their God instead of worshiping idols.
50:5 ^c an eternal covenant: See 31:23-34 ^d.
50:6 ^e The shepherds of Israel and Judah, such as Jeroboam I and Manasseh (see 1 Kgs 12:25–13:34 ^f; 2 Kgs 21:1-18 ^g), had led the people away from the Lord.

• The mountains were both literal and metaphorical—Baal worship tended to take place at high elevations.
50:7 ^h This verse continues the metaphor of lost sheep (50:6 ⁱ), connecting Israel’s vulnerability to attack with their apostasy in turning away from the Lord. Their enemies rationalized their mistreatment of Israel by saying that the Israelites had sinned against the Lord. These enemies understood that the Israelites’ true place of rest and hope was in the Lord.
Summary for Jer 50:8-9: 50:8-9 ^j The Lord urged the Israelites to leave when he ordered an army of great nations (Persia and its allies) to attack Babylon in 539 BC.