Jeremiah 24
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But an even greater “good” was yet to come: “I will give them a heart to know me,” says the Lord (verse 7). The law would be written on their hearts (Jeremiah 31:33). This was something new—a new covenant (Jeremiah 31:31). No longer would people be told simply to obey the law; they would be given a new heart, a new power to obey it. This promise, of course, was fulfilled when the Holy Spirit came to dwell within believers following the death of Jesus. It’s the Holy Spirit who makes it possible to obey God’s law—and who makes it a joy to do so.
With the people cured of idolatry and having new hearts to know the Lord, they would then truly become His people (verse 7), and He would be their God (Leviticus 26:12; Jeremiah 31:33).
8–10 In these verses the Lord describes the fate of those who stayed in Jerusalem. Recall that Jeremiah received this vision eleven years before the city’s fall. Those who stayed thought that they were the lucky ones, and that it was the exiles who were unlucky! They soon found out differently. The destruction described in verse 10 took place in 586 B.C. And six hundred years later, in 70 A.D., Jerusalem and its people were again destroyed, this time by the Roman army.