Jeremiah 8:3

Lexham English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹ "At that time," declares Yahweh, "they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its officials, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Judah from their graves. ² And they shall spread them out before the sun, and before the moon, and before all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and which they have gone after, and which they have inquired about, and to which they have bowed in worship. They shall not be gathered, and they shall not be buried; they will be like dung on the surface of the ground. ³ And death will be preferred to life by all the remaining of this evil clan in all the remaining places where I have driven them away," declares Yahweh.

Bible Verse Review
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death: Jeremiah 20:14-18, 1 Kings 19:4, Job 3:20-22, Job 7:15, Job 7:16, Jonah 4:3, Revelation 6:16, Revelation 9:6

in all: Jeremiah 23:3, Jeremiah 23:8, Jeremiah 29:14, Jeremiah 29:28, Jeremiah 32:36, Jeremiah 32:37, Jeremiah 40:12, Deuteronomy 30:1, Deuteronomy 30:4, Daniel 9:7

Reciprocal: Isaiah 15:4 - his Isaiah 24:17 - and the pit Amos 3:1 - against Micah 2:3 - this family

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month—on that day all the springs of the great deep were split open, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Genesis 7:24
And the waters prevailed over the earth one hundred and fifty days.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And death shall be chosen rather than life,.... By them that should be alive in those times, who would be carried captive into other lands, and be used very hardly, and suffer greatly, by the nations among whom they should dwell; see Revelation 9:6. The Septuagint version, and those that follow it, make this to be a reason of the former, reading the words thus, "because they have chosen death rather than life"; see

Deuteronomy 30:19, but the other sense is best, which is confirmed by what follows:

by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family; the nation of the Jews, become very corrupt and degenerate; so the people of Israel are called the whole family of Israel, Amos 3:1, now it is foretold, that those which remained of that people, who died not by famine, or were not slain by the sword, yet should be in such a miserable condition, as that death would be more eligible to them than life:

even which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of hosts: for, though they were carried captive by men, yet the thing was of the Lord, and a just punishment upon them for their sins.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This evil family - The whole Jewish race.

Which remain - The words are omitted by the Septuagint and Syriac versions.