It took me a little over 15 minutes top read this introduction to Jeremiah. Repeatedly, through out the start of his prophesying Jeremiah uses physical terms of marriage to describe how God has view the conduct of the people of Judah. Adultery, divorce, marriage all describe in very human terms what God was experiencing. In 3:1 God says that Israel is trying to walk between the marriages to two husbands. She divorce her first husband (the idolatry of Egypt?) to marry another (the true God of Israel) only to leave him and remarry the first (idolatry). Thus the inheritance is defiled. God call has always been faithful to His people. His call is that His people remain faithful to Him.
Stuart
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