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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
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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...
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GOETH FORTH. Some codices add "and falleth".
LIFE. soul....
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_He that abideth, etc_.] The _v_. is substantially identical with
Jeremiah 21:9, and Co. following Du. considers that it is a later
insertion in this place, on the ground that while such advice under...
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HE SHALL HAVE HIS LIFE FOR A PREY— As a spoil gained from the enemy;
snatched out of the flames, and saved from the carnage. The beginning
of the next verse should be rendered, _For thus saith the Lor...
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C. Imprisoned by the Princes Jeremiah 38:1-6
TRANSLATION
(1) And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur,
and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur, the son of Malchiah heard
th...
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1-3. The removal of Jeremiah from the prison was favourable to the
publication of his message. Hence the alarm of the princes....
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HE THAT GOETH FORTH] i.e. submits: so Jeremiah 38:17....
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THUS SAITH THE LORD. — The words carry us back to Jeremiah 21:9, and
in any chronological arrangement of the book the one chapter would
follow the other. It is obvious that to all who did not recognis...
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כֹּה֮ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָה֒ הַ יֹּשֵׁב֙ בָּ
†...
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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...
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Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the
sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth
to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for (b...
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_Safe. Hebrew, "a booty," chap. xxi. 9. --- Septuagint, "like a thing
found." (Calmet) --- The Hebrew idiom implies that he shall most
surely live. Voluntary offerings prevent eternal misery.
(Worthin...
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I again and again detain the Reader to remark the faithfulness of
Jeremiah. Never surely was there a more conscientious preacher. Let
the Reader connect this view of Jeremiah with his ordination, and...
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We have seen elsewhere that the Prophet had before said the same; it
was not, then, a new thing, for he had thirty years before that time
dearly pronounced the same in the Temple, and it was then writ...
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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...
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THUS SAITH THE LORD, HE THAT REMAINETH IN THIS CITY,.... Of Jerusalem;
that does not go out of it, and surrender himself to the Chaldeans;
but continues in it fighting against them:
SHALL DIE BY THE...
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Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the
sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth
to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a...
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_Thus saith the Lord, He that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live_
This had been the constant tenor of this prophet's prophecies. The
crime of which he was now accused, seems to lie in this, that...
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Thus saith the Lord, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the
sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, 21:9; BUT HE THAT GOETH
FORTH TO THE CHALDEANS SHALL LIVE, since Jehovah had now defin...
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JEREMIAH CAST INTO A PIT...
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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...
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As to what is JEREMIAH 38:3, it is no more than had for some time been
the constant tenor of this prophet's prophecies. The crime seemeth to
lie in this, that in such a time of extreme danger he shoul...
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Jeremiah 38:2 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 remains H3427 (H8802) city
H5892 die H4191 (H8799) sword...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's imprisonment, continued. His private conference
with the king.
CHARACTERS: Shephatiah, Gedaliah, Jucal, Pashur, Jeremiah, Zedekiah,
Malchiah, Ebed-melech, Jonathan.
CONCLUSION: G...
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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...
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_The words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people._
UNPATRIOTIC IN APPEARANCE
Rays of hope had arisen in the clouded sky of the, nation. An Egyptian
army was on its way to the city. Thus, it wa...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 38:2 This is a summary of Jeremiah’s
message concerning Jerusalem for all 10 years of Zedekiah’s reign.
See Jeremiah 27:1....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ezekiel 14:21; Ezekiel 5:12; Ezekiel 6:11; Ezekiel 7:15; Jeremiah 21