Jeremiah
to avoid family relationships with the people to show
what God would do
In chapter 16 Jehovah
teaches Jeremiah to avoid all family relationships with
this people, and to cease from all testimonies of
interest in what was going on among them. For He Himself
had entirely broken off with them, and would cause all
His testimonies to cease among them, and would drive them
out of the land. But, after all, through the greatness of
the evil which He would bring upon them, He would cause
their deliverance out of Egypt to be forgotten in their
yet greater deliverance from this evil. For at length God
will pardon and comfort His people But before this He
will recompense their iniquity. Afterwards the Gentiles
themselves shall come and acknowledge the true God, the
God of Israel.
Jeremiah 16 Bible Commentary
John Darby’s Synopsis
In chapter 16 Jehovah teaches Jeremiah to avoid all family relationships with this people, and to cease from all testimonies of interest in what was going on among them. For He Himself had entirely broken off with them, and would cause all His testimonies to cease among them, and would drive them out of the land. But, after all, through the greatness of the evil which He would bring upon them, He would cause their deliverance out of Egypt to be forgotten in their yet greater deliverance from this evil. For at length God will pardon and comfort His people But before this He will recompense their iniquity. Afterwards the Gentiles themselves shall come and acknowledge the true God, the God of Israel.