Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 30:3

For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

3. turn again the captivity ] See on Jer 29:14.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Verse 3. The days come] First, After the conclusion of the seventy years. Secondly, Under the Messiah.

That I will bring again the captivity of Israel] The ten tribes, led captive by the king of Assyria, and dispersed among the nations.

And Judah] The people carried into Babylon at two different times; first, under Jeconiah, and, secondly, under Zedekiah, by Nebuchadnezzar.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

The reason why God would have the prophecy written, was for a memorial of Gods truth in his promises. Israel never returned as to the body of the people, but those of the ten tribes which were Gods people did return; we read, Luk 2:36, of one Anna who was of the tribe of Asher, and many more doubtless did return according to the promises, Jer 3:12,14; 23:6; 31:1,6; Eze 37:21,22. It is uncertain whether this promise of returning to their own land was fulfilled in those few of the ten tribes who joined themselves with those of Judah after they were returned from Babylon, or remaineth yet in part to be fulfilled. The former is most probable, and that there shall be no such time when the Jews shall return again to Jerusalem, and possess their own land, for it is hard now to give an account where the posterity of the ten tribes be by whose return the promise should be justified. Besides that the phrase in the beginning of this verse, For, lo, the days come, seem to import a more speedy fulfilling of the promise than after some thousands of years, though it is certain the Jews feed themselves with some such expectations.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

3. bring again . . . captivity of .. . Israel and Judahthe restoration not merely of the Jews(treated of in this thirtieth chapter), but also of the ten tribes(“Israel”; treated in the thirty-first chapter), togetherforming the whole nation (Jer 30:18;Jer 32:44; Eze 39:25;Amo 9:14; Amo 9:15).”Israel” is mentioned first because its exile was longerthan that of Judah. Some captives of the Israelite ten tribesreturned with those of Judah (Lu2:36; “Aser” is mentioned). But these are only a pledgeof the full restoration hereafter (Ro11:26, “All Israel”). Compare Jer16:15. This third verse is a brief statement of the subjectbefore the prophecy itself is given.

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For, lo, the days come, saith the Lord,…. And they are yet to come; the prophecy is not yet fulfilled. Kimchi says this belongs to the days of the Messiah; but not to his first coming, or to his coming in the flesh, which the Jews vainly expect; but to his spiritual coming in the latter day:

that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah,

saith the Lord; which cannot be understood of their return from the Babylonish captivity; for, as Kimchi rightly observes, only Judah and Benjamin returned from thence; and though there were some few of the other tribes that came with them, especially of the tribe of Levi, yet not sufficient to answer to so great a prophecy as this, which refers to the same time as that in Ho 3:5; as appears by comparing that with

Jer 30:9; and when, as the Apostle Paul says, “all Israel shall be saved”, Ro 11:25;

and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it; the land of Canaan, given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and which shall be again by the Jews their posterity; for, without that the Jews upon their call and conversion shall return to their own land, in a literal sense, I see not how we can understand this, and many other prophecies.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

We now, then, see why he says, come shall the days; for every hope after two years would have been extinguished, had not God interposed. Come, then, shall the days in which I wll restore the captivity of Israel and Judah The ten tribes, we know, had been already led into exile; the tribe of Judah and the half tribe of Benjamin only remained. Hence the ten tribes, the whole kingdom of Israel, are mentioned first. The exile of Israel was much longer than that of Judah. It afterwards follows, —

Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary

(3) I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah . . .The oracle of Jer. 29:10-14 becomes, as it were, the text of a new utterance, and that with a wider range more distinctly including the ten tribes of Israel as well as the two of Judah and Benjamin. There is no narrow provincialism in the prophets heart. He yearns for the exiles who are far off on the Euphrates; he yearns also for those who are yet farther in Assyria and the cities of the Medes (2Ki. 17:6).

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

3. Israel and Judah The prophet does not restrict himself to the kingdom of Judah, whose fate then hung in the balance, but includes Israel as being a component part of the theocracy. Though the kingdom of Israel had been extinct for generations, yet his faith staggers not at God’s covenant promise. From such allusions as that in Luk 2:36, we are led to infer that some of the tribal remnants of Israel returned with Judah to Palestine.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jer 30:3. For, lo, the days come Though the prophesy in this chapter contains many circumstances which refer to the return of the Jews from Babylon, yet there are many others, which so suit the Lord Jesus Christ and the establishment of his church, particularly in the last days, that there is no giving them literally any other sense; and even the clearest and most express prophesies for the deliverance from Babylon, are very naturally to be explained of Jesus Christ and his faithful followers, and the final return of the Jews.

Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke

Jer 30:3 For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

Ver. 3. I will bring again the captivity a of Israel and Judah.] This promise, Oecolampadius thinketh, was written in the book in greater letters than the rest; it was fulfilled according to the letter in carnal Israel sent back by Cyrus (upon Daniel’s prayer, who understood by that book here mentioned that the time of deliverance, yea, the set time was come, Dan 9:2 ), but more fully in those “Jews inwardly,” Rom 2:29 those “Israelites indeed” who are set at liberty by Christ, Joh 8:36 and shall be much more at the last day.

a Convertam conversionem. – Vulg.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)