Jeremiah 12:16

Lexham English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ Thus says Yahweh concerning all of the evil neighbors who touch the inheritance that I gave as an inheritance to my people Israel: "Look, I am about to drive them out from their land, and the house of Judah I will drive out from among them. ¹⁵ And then after my driving them out, I will once again have compassion on them, and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance, and each one to his land. ¹⁶ And then, if they diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘as Yahweh lives,' even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will live in the midst of my people. ¹⁷ But if they do not listen, then I will completely uproot and destroy that nation." declares Yahweh.

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my name: Jeremiah 4:2, Jeremiah 5:2, Deuteronomy 10:20, Deuteronomy 10:21, Song of Solomon 1:8, Isaiah 9:18-21, Isaiah 45:23, Isaiah 65:16, Romans 14:11

as they: Joshua 23:7, Psalms 106:35, Psalms 106:36, Zephaniah 1:5

built: Isaiah 19:23-25, Isaiah 56:5, Isaiah 56:6, Zechariah 2:11, Romans 11:17, 1 Corinthians 3:9, Ephesians 2:19-22, 1 Peter 2:4-6

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:3 - swear Deuteronomy 6:13 - shalt swear Deuteronomy 28:1 - If thou shalt Joshua 2:12 - swear Joshua 22:5 - take 1 Samuel 20:21 - as the 1 Samuel 29:6 - the Lord Job 27:2 - God liveth Isaiah 14:1 - the strangers Isaiah 19:18 - and swear Jeremiah 5:7 - sworn by Ezekiel 16:53 - in the midst Zechariah 1:6 - take hold of

Cross-References

Genesis 12:13
Please say you are my sister so that it will go well for me on your account. Then I will live on account of you."

Genesis 12:14
And it happened that as Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.

Genesis 12:15
And the officials of Pharaoh saw her, and they praised her beauty to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to the house of Pharaoh.

Genesis 13:2
Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

Genesis 20:14
And Abimelech took sheep and cattle and male slaves and female slaves, and he gave them to Abraham. And he returned Sarah his wife to him.

Genesis 24:35
Now Yahweh has blessed my master exceedingly, and he has become great. He has given to him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male slaves and female slaves, and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 26:14
And he possessed sheep and cattle and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him.

Genesis 32:5
And I have acquired cattle, male donkeys, flocks, and male and female slaves, and I have sent to tell my lord, to find favor in your eyes.'"

Job 1:3
Then his livestock came to be seven thousand sheep and goats and three thousand camels and five hundred pairs of oxen and five hundred female donkeys, and he had very many slaves, and that man was greater than all the people of the east.

Job 42:12
So Yahweh blessed Job's latter days more than his beginning. Thus he had fourteen thousand sheep and goats and six thousand camels and a thousand pair of oxen and a thousand female donkeys.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people,.... Not their evil ways of sin or superstition, they sometimes stray into; but the ways which God has prescribed to them, and has directed them to walk in, and in which they do walk; and which are to be learned of the Lord, by a diligent attendance with his people on his word and ordinances; see Isaiah 2:3:

to swear by my name, the Lord liveth; that is, to worship and serve the living God, a self-existent Being, who has life in himself, and of himself, and not another; and is the fountain, author, and giver of natural life to all creatures, and spiritual and eternal life to his true worshippers: swearing is here put for the whole of religious worship, as in Deuteronomy 6:13:

(as they taught my people to swear by Baal;) to worship him, and other idols:

then shall they be built in the midst of my people; become part of the spiritual building the church; being laid upon the same foundation of the apostles and prophets, and built up a holy temple; a spiritual house for the Lord to dwell in; partaking of the same privileges and ordinances as the people of God; being fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ by the Gospel, Ephesians 2:20, it denotes the settlement and establishment of the Gentiles with the Jews in a Gospel church state. So the Targum,

"and they shall be established in the midst of my people.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The accomplishment of this blessing depends upon both Judah and the Gentiles reversing their past conduct. Then shall the believing Gentile be admitted within the fold of the true, because spiritual, Israel - Christ’s Church.