Hébreux 8:9

9 Non une alliance comme celle que je fis avec leurs pères, au jour où les prenant par la main, je les tirai du pays d'Égypte; car ils n'ont pas persévéré dans mon alliance, et je les ai abandonnés, dit le Seigneur.

Hébreux 8:9 Meaning and Commentary

Hebrews 8:9

Not according to the covenant that I made with their
fathers
The ancestors of the Jews at Mount Sinai:

in the day when I took then, by the hand to lead them out of the
land of Egypt;
which is mentioned, not only to observe the time when the former covenant was made with the Israelites, which was just upon their deliverance out of Egypt; but also to show their weakness and inability to have delivered themselves, and the tenderness of God towards them; they were like children, they could not help themselves when God took them by the hand, and brought them forth with an outstretched arm; and likewise to expose their ingratitude, and vindicate his conduct towards them:

because they continued not in my covenant;
though they promised, at the reading of it, that all that the Lord had said, they would hear and do; but their hearts were not right with God, and they were not steadfast in his covenant, and therefore their carcasses fell in the wilderness:

and I regarded them not, saith the Lord;
the words in ( Jeremiah 31:32 ) are very differently rendered in our translation, "although I was an husband unto them": and so it becomes an aggravation of their sin of ingratitude, in not continuing in his covenant: in the margin it is rendered interrogatively, "should I have continued an husband unto them?" that is, after they had so treated him, no; as if he should say, I will not behave towards them as such; I will reject them, and disregard them. The Chaldee paraphrase is just the reverse of the apostle's translation, "and I was well pleased with them": some render them, "I ruled over them", as a lord over his servants, in a very severe manner. Others, observing the great difference there is between the Hebrew text, and the apostle's version, have supposed a different Hebrew copy from the present, used by the Septuagint, or the apostle, in which, instead of (ytleb) , it was read either (ytlxb) , or (ytleg) ; but there is no need of such a supposition, since Dr. Pocock ^F7 has shown, that (leb) , in the Arabic language, signifies to loath and abhor, and so to disregard; and Kimchi ^F8 relates it as a rule laid down by his father, that wherever this word is used in construction with (b) , it is to be taken in an ill part, and signifies the same as (ytlxb) , "I have loathed"; in which sense that word is used in ( Zechariah 11:8 ) and so here, I have loathed them, I abhorred them, I rejected them, I took no care of them, disregarded them, left their house desolate, and suffered wrath to come upon them to the uttermost.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Not. Miscell. in Port. Mesis, p. 9.
F8 In Jer. xxxi. 32. & Sepher Shorashim, rad. (leb)

Hébreux 8:9 In-Context

7 En effet, si la première alliance avait été sans défaut, il n'y aurait pas eu lieu d'en établir une seconde.

8 Car en leur adressant des reproches, Dieu dit aux Juifs: Voici, les jours viendront, dit le Seigneur, que je traiterai une alliance nouvelle avec la maison d'Israël, et avec la maison de Juda;

9 Non une alliance comme celle que je fis avec leurs pères, au jour où les prenant par la main, je les tirai du pays d'Égypte; car ils n'ont pas persévéré dans mon alliance, et je les ai abandonnés, dit le Seigneur.

10 Or, voici l'alliance que je traiterai avec la maison d'Israël, après ces jours-là, dit le Seigneur, je mettrai mes lois dans leur esprit, et je les écrirai sur leur cœur. Je serai leur Dieu, et ils seront mon peuple;

11 Et aucun n'enseignera plus ni son prochain ni son frère, en disant: Connais le Seigneur; parce que tous me connaîtront, depuis le plus petit d'entre eux jusqu'au plus grand;