Jeremiah 3:8 meaning and explanation
She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.
Jeremiah 3:8, Berean Standard Bible
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The LORD is speaking through Jeremiah in the days of King Josiah. Israel, the northern kingdom, had already been carried off by Assyria, and the LORD describes her exile as a certificate of divorce, the legal release a husband could give an unfaithful wife.
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