So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison. Ebed-melech prudently put him there, to be out of the way of his enemies.
CHAPTER 38 _ 1. Jeremiah in the dungeon and his rescue (Jeremiah 38:1) _ 2. Jeremiah with Zedekiah: His last appeal (Jeremiah 38:14) Jeremiah 38:1. Jeremiah is next accused of high treason. Th
Four of the princes (Jeremiah 37:15) hear Jeremiah (confined in the guard-court, Jeremiah 37:21) foretelling the fall of the city and advising individual surrender (_cf._ Jeremiah 21:9 f.). They denou...
REMAINED. See note on Jeremiah 37:18....
See introd. summary to section....
_court of the guard_ See on Jeremiah 32:2....
D. Rescued by Ebed-melech Jeremiah 38:7-13 TRANSLATION (7) And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian. one of the eunuchs attached to the household if the king, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon. No...
1-3. The removal of Jeremiah from the prison was favourable to the publication of his message. Hence the alarm of the princes....
וַ יִּמְשְׁכ֤וּ אֶֽת ־יִרְמְיָ֨הוּ֙ בַּֽ חֲבָלִ֔ים...
Under these circumstances he continued to foretell the victory of the Chaldeans, with the result that the anger of the princes was stirred up against him, and he was cast into a most loathsome dungeon...
So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the (g) court of the prison. (g) Where the king had set him before to be at more liberty, as in (Jeremia...
See how the Lord raiseth instruments, from the most unexpected quarters, for the deliverance of his people. Here was a stranger, and a Gentile, prompted to fly to the rescue of one of the Lord's proph...
_A FRIEND IN NEED_ ‘They drew up Jeremiah with cords.’ Jeremiah 38:13 I. THE DUNGEON. (1) Jeremiah, because he spoke the unpopular truth, though he knew it must give offence, was thrown into a dun...
We here see that the Prophet was rescued from death, not however that he might be set at liberty, and sent home, for that would not have been for his benefit, as he would have been taken again by the...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 37 AND 38. Chapter 37 gives us Zedekiah in the same state of disobedience. A show of religion is kept up, and, having a moment of respite which excites some h...
SO THEY DREW UP JEREMIAH WITH CORDS,.... The men that were with Ebedmelech, as many as were necessary; he overlooking, directing, and encouraging: AND HE TOOK HIM OUT OF THE DUNGEON; alive, according...
So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison. Ver. 13. _So they drew up Jeremiah with cords._] And God was not unrighteous...
_Then the king commanded_, &c. The king, who a little while ago durst do nothing against the princes, has now his heart wonderfully and suddenly changed, and will have Jeremiah released in defiance of...
So they drew up Jeremiah with cords and took him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison, still under arrest, but no longer in danger of slow death by starvation. God m...
JEREMIAH CAST INTO A PIT...
1-13 Jeremiah went on in his plain preaching. The princes went on in their malice. It is common for wicked people to look upon God's faithful ministers as enemies, because they show what enemies the...
The sense of these verses is obvious. Ebed-melech having received a commission from the king, presently puts it in execution, only because the dungeon was deep, and full of mire, and the prophet possi...
Jeremiah 38:13 pulled H4900 (H8799) Jeremiah H3414 ropes H2256 lifted H5927 (H8686) dungeon H953 Jeremiah H3414
JEREMIAH'S EXPERIENCES IN THE COURT OF THE GUARD (JEREMIAH 38:1). But even the fact that Jeremiah was in the court of the guard did not prevent him from further maltreatment by those who saw him as a...
JEREMIAH IS SEEN AS A TRAITOR AND IS THRUST INTO A WELL FILLED WITH DEEP MUD WHICH WAS IN THE COURT OF THE GUARD, WHERE HE WOULD HAVE DIED HAD HE NOT BEEN RESCUED BY EBEDMELECH, A SUDANESE (JEREMIAH 3...
Jeremiah 38 Ropes and rags. I. Help always comes from above. Jeremiah found it so. It was useless to try to climb out of the dungeon, it was only to fall deeper into the mire. "Salvation is of the L...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's imprisonment, continued. His private conference with the king. CHARACTERS: Shephatiah, Gedaliah, Jucal, Pashur, Jeremiah, Zedekiah, Malchiah, Ebed-melech, Jonathan. CONCLUSION: G...
Jeremiah 38:7. _Ebed-melech the Ethiopian,_ the king's chamberlain. It seems to have been a new name given him on his promotion to office; but God gave him long life for preserving the life of Jeremia...
_Ebed-melech the Ethiopian._ EBED-MELECH THE ETHIOPIAN A slave from the Soudan, an eunuch in the household of Zedekiah, King of Judah, is by the side of the great Jeremiah, a humble servant yet an e...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 38:11 EBED-MELECH continues to prove resourceful on Jeremiah’s behalf. ⇐...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—CHRONOLOGICAL NOTES as on preceding chapter. Personal Allusions. Jeremiah 38:1. “_Shephatiah_,” never elsewhere mentioned. “_Gedaliah_,” possibly son of “Pashur” the vio...
CONTINUATION. EXPOSITION The object of the princes being frustrated (for in the "court of the guard" Jeremiah had perfect freedom and opportunity of speech), the princes resolve upon a more effectua...
Now we come to the third part of the book of Jeremiah and this covers the period of Zedekiah the king. These particular prophecies, thirty-seven through thirty-nine, cover from the time that Zedekiah...
1 Kings 22:27; Acts 23:35; Acts 24:23; Acts 28:16; Acts 28:30;...