Verse 6
6. :-, is a new discourse, delivered in Josiah's reign. It consists of two parts, the former extending to :-, in which he warns Judah from the example of Israel's doom, and yet promises Israel final restoration; the latter a threat of Babylonian invasion; as Nabopolassar founded the Babylonian empire, 625 B.C., the seventeenth of Josiah, this prophecy is perhaps not earlier than that date (Jeremiah 4:5; Jeremiah 5:14; Jeremiah 6:1; Jeremiah 22:1-30); and probably not later than the second thorough reformation in the eighteenth year of the same reign.
backsliding—literally, "apostasy"; not merely apostate, but apostasy itself, the essence of it (Jeremiah 3:14; Jeremiah 3:22).
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