Bible Strands
Jeremiah 33:24
“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Jeremiah between declarations of national restoration and the declaration of His covenant with the natural order. The prophet is instructed to observe the prevailing public doubt regarding God's commitment to Israel.
The words — רָאִ֗יתָ (ra.'I.ta) = have you seen/noticed; שְׁתֵּ֣י (she.Tei) = two. The text uses these terms to frame the question about observing the people's claim that God rejected His chosen families.
The thread — The theme of enemies mocking or questioning God's relationship with Israel appears in Psalms 44:13 and Psalms 83:4, while Nehemiah 4:2 records similar public derision directed at the Jewish community.
Why it lands — The text demands a clear-eyed assessment of popular skepticism before affirming God's unbroken covenant. It asks the reader to anchor confidence in divine faithfulness rather than shifting public opinion.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the Lord hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
Cross-references
- Nehemiah 4:2 before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”
- Psalms 44:13 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
- Psalms 83:4 saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
- Esther 3:6 And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.
- Psalms 71:11 saying, “God has forsaken him; pursue him and seize him, for there is no one to rescue him.”
- Psalms 94:14 For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.
- Psalms 123:3 Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.
- Jeremiah 30:17 But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
- Jeremiah 33:21 then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.
- Lamentations 2:15 All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”