The Chosen Key Word in this Chapter is “Tabrets” it comes from the Hebrew Word “toph” which means “tambourines, timbrels.”
Jeremiah delivers a beautiful promise of restoration and an entirely new kind of covenant. Welcome to Bible Life Basics Chapter Reviews, I am Chris and this is Jeremiah 31.
Jeremiah declares that at that time He will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be His people, describing how the Lord has appeared of old to him, saying, “Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee,” promising to build Israel again, and she shall be built, and shall again be adorned with her “tabrets,” “toph” in Hebrew, and shall go forth in the dances of those who make merry.
Jeremiah describes a coming day when watchmen upon the mount of Ephraim shall cry, arise, and let us go up to Zion, to the Lord our God, describing how the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he, comparing Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are not, yet promising there is hope in her end, that her children shall come again to their own border.
Jeremiah delivers this chapter’s central, magnificent promise, “Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah… I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people… for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more,” this new covenant promise later fulfilled through Christ and quoted extensively in the New Testament book of Hebrews, closing with God’s promise that as long as the ordinances of sun, moon, and stars continue, Israel shall not cease from being a nation before Him forever.
Jeremiah’s magnificent new covenant promise, God’s law written not on external tablets but on the heart itself, offers one of the Old Testament’s clearest anticipations of genuine, internal transformation rather than mere external compliance with rules. This chapter’s tender declaration, I have loved you with an everlasting love, therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you, reveals the genuine, personal affection underlying God’s persistent commitment to His people despite their repeated failures.
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