1At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)God here assures his people, I. That he will again take them into a covenant relation to himself, from which they seemed to be cut off. At the same time , when God’s anger breaks out against the wicked (Jer. 30:24), his own people shall be owned by him as the children of his love: I will be the God (that is, I will show myself to be the God) of all the families of Israel (Jer. 31:1),—not of the tw…
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