Darby Bible
Jeremiah 31:2
2Thus saith Jehovah: The people [that were] left of the sword have found grace in the wilderness, [even] Israel, when I go to give him rest.
Jeremiah 31:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thus saith the Lord, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
- New International Version (NIV)This is what the Lord says: “The people who survive the sword will find favor in the wilderness; I will come to give rest to Israel.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)Thus says the Lord: "The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest,
- New King James Version (NKJV)Thus says the Lord: “The people who survived the sword Found grace in the wilderness— Israel, when I went to give him rest.”
Context of Jeremiah 31:2
1At that time, saith Jehovah, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. Thus saith Jehovah: The people [that were] left of the sword have found grace in the wilderness, [even] Israel, when I go to give him rest. 3Jehovah hath appeared from afar unto me, [saying,] Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee. 4I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel! Thou shalt again be adorned with thy tambours, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
Read all of Jeremiah 31Jeremiah 31:2 word by word
כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה מָצָ֥א חֵן֙ בַּמִּדְבָּ֔ר עַ֖ם שְׂרִ֣ידֵי חָ֑רֶב הָל֥וֹךְ לְהַרְגִּיע֖וֹ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Jeremiah 31:2
- Exodus 1:16and he said, When ye help the Hebrew women in bearing, and see [them] on the stool, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him, but if a daughter, then she shall live.
- Exodus 2:23And it came to pass during those many days, that the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and cried; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage;
- Exodus 5:21And they said to them, Jehovah look upon you and judge, that ye have made our odour to stink in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his bondmen, putting a sword into their hand to kill us!
- Exodus 12:37And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, besides children.
- Exodus 14:8And Jehovah hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel; and the children of Israel had gone out with a high hand.
- Exodus 15:9The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my soul shall be sated upon them; I will unsheath my sword, my hand shall dispossess them.
- Exodus 17:8And Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
- Jeremiah 2:2Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
- Deuteronomy 1:30Jehovah your God who goeth before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
- Deuteronomy 2:7for Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand. He hath known thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years hath Jehovah thy God been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
- Deuteronomy 8:2And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or not.
- Nehemiah 9:12And thou leddest them in the day by a pillar of cloud, and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
- Psalms 78:14And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire.
- Psalms 105:37And he brought them forth with silver and gold; and there was not one feeble among their tribes.
- Psalms 136:16To him that led his people through the wilderness, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever;
- Isaiah 63:7I will record the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah, the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah hath bestowed upon us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel which he hath bestowed upon them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 31:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2The people which were left of the sword - Those of the ten tribes that had escaped death by the sword of the Assyrians. Found grace in the wilderness - The place of their exile; a wilderness, compared to their own land. - Dahler. See Isaiah 40:3;Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2The people which were left of the sword - A promise of the restoration of the ten tribes to their land. The wilderness - Either the desert which lay between Assyria and Palestine; or more probably an allusion to the wilderness of Mount Sinai. Found grace rest - Rather, “shall certainly find grace; I will go to give Israel rest.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2The Lord sent his message to those who would survive the destruction when Jerusalem fell in 586 BC.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. Upon the grace manifested to Israel "in the wilderness" God grounds His argument for renewing His favors to them now in their exile; because His covenant is "everlasting" (Jr 31:3), and changes not. The same argument occurs in Ho 13:5, 9, 10; 14:4, 5, 8. Babylon is fitly compared to the "wilderness," as in both alike Israel was as a stranger far from his appointed "rest" or home, and Babylon is in Is 40:3 called a "desert" (compare Jr 50:12). I went to…Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Jeremiah 31
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
Darby Bible — 1889 — Public Domain
Commentaries