24:7 I will give them a heart to know. The Lord’s answer to His people’s inability to maintain the covenant relationship is for He Himself to intervene and create in them a new capacity for knowing Him.

they shall be my people and I will be their God. Use of the basic covenant formula (32:38; Lev. 26:12) shows that this answer is nothing less than a new covenant. The theology introduced here is developed at 31:31–34.