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Jeremiah 31:24

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

The ideal of outward life exhibited by the prophets is still the agricultural and pastoral. Jeremiah puts this more forcibly than the Authorized Version represents. Instead of, And there shall dwell in Judah, etc; he says, And there shall dwell therein (viz.

in the land) Judah and all his cities together as husbandmen, and they shall go about with flocks, i.e. they shall attend to their ancient pursuits without let or hindrance from invaders (comp. Isaiah 32:20).

"Go about" (literally, break up) is the regular word for the periodical journeying of the nomad life.

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