Go to, yet shall not see Babylon, (Ezechiel xii. 13.) his eyes being put out, chap. xxxii. 4. (Calmet) See 4 Kings xxv. 7. (Worthington) --- Paine objects this as a false prophecy, though it was verified so terribly. Daniel, &c., would not neglect to bury the king. (Watson)
Verse Jeremiah 34:3. _THOU SHALT NOT ESCAPE_] This, however, he had attempted, but was taken in his flight. See Jeremiah 39:4; Jeremiah 52:7, c....
CHAPTER 34:1-7 Jeremiah Warns Zedekiah The besieging army was before the walls of Jerusalem when the prophet is commanded to go to the king and tell him that the city will soon be burned. He announce...
THE FATE OF JERUSALEM AND OF ZEDEKIAH. In the course of the siege (588- 6), Jeremiah is sent to Zedekiah to tell him that the city will be taken and destroyed, that he will be brought before Nebuchadr...
THINE EYES SHALL BEHOLD, &C. See note on Jeremiah 32:4....
_thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon_ Cp. Jeremiah 32:4. There is no reason to doubt, with Du., that the blinding of Zedekiah, as related in Jeremiah 52:11; 2 Kings 25:7, after his...
Prophecy of the burning of the city and the captivity of Zedekiah....
I. AN INCIDENT DURING THE FINAL SIEGE OF JERUSALEM Jeremiah 34:1-22 Chapter 34 contains two messages delivered during the final siege of Jerusalem. The first of these messages is directed to king Zede...
And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to m...
JEREMIAH'S EIGHTEENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF ZEDEKIAH). THE FATE OF ZEDEKIAH. THE TREATMENT OF HEBREW SLAVES Early in the campaign of Nebuchadnezzar, whose scheme of conquest included all the region as fa...
THINE EYES SHALL BEHOLD.. THE KING, etc.] i.e. at Riblah, before being blinded and carried to Babylon: see Jeremiah 39:7; Jeremiah 52:9, and cp. Jeremiah 32:4;...
GO AND SPEAK TO ZEDEKIAH... — See Notes on Jeremiah 32:3....
וְ אַתָּ֗ה לֹ֚א תִמָּלֵט֙ מִ יָּדֹ֔ו כִּ֚י
CHAPTER XI A BROKEN COVENANT Jeremiah 21:1, Jeremiah 34:1, Jeremiah 37:1 "All the princes and peoplechanged their minds and reduced to bondage again all the slaves whom they had set free....
Chapter s thirty-four and thirty-five contain prophecies of the siege. The armies of Nebuchadnezzar were round about Jerusalem, and Jehovah declared to Zedekiah that the king of Babylon would be succe...
We cannot sufficiently admire the faithfulness of the Prophet, in following up the will of the Lord. Times were dangerous, but Jeremiah considered, that there was but the more reason to be conscientio...
As Zedekiah saw the people still doing their duty he despised his enemy; for as the city was very strongly fortified, he hoped to be able to preserve it a little time longer. Hence was the false hope...
On the occasion of renewed iniquity the prophet announces the certain ruin of the people. Nevertheless Zedekiah, though carried captive to Babylon, should die there in peace. [1] In the succeeding Cha...
AND THOU SHALT NOT ESCAPE OUT OF HIS HAND,.... Though he would, and did attempt to do it, Jeremiah 52:8; BUT SHALL SURELY BE TAKEN, AND DELIVERED INTO HIS HAND; he was taken on the plains of Jericho,...
And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mo...
_Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and thou shalt not escape_, &c. This prophecy, which threatened the king in particular, as well as the city and nation in general,...
and thou shalt not escape out of his hand, as he afterwards attempted to do, 2 Kings 25:4, BUT SHALT SURELY BE TAKEN AND DELIVERED INTO HIS HAND; AND THINE EYES SHALL BEHOLD THE EYES OF THE KING OF BA...
OF THE CAPTIVITY OF ZEDEKIAH...
HE SHALL SPEAK WITH THEE MOUTH TO MOUTH: _ Heb._ his mouth shall speak to thy mouth...
1-7 Zedekiah is told that the city shall be taken, and that he shall die a captive, but he shall die a natural death. It is better to live and die penitent in a prison, than to live and die impenitent...
We had all this JEREMIAH 32:3,4. SEE POOLE ON "JEREMIAH 32:3", SEE POOLE ON "JEREMIAH 32:4"....
Jeremiah 34:3 escape H4422 (H8735) hand H3027 surely H8610 (H8800) taken H8610 (H8735) delivered H5414 ...
SECTION 2 (JEREMIAH 26:1 TO JEREMIAH 45:5). (CONTINUED). As we have previously seen this Section of Jeremiah from Jeremiah 26:1 to Jeremiah
SUBSECTION 3 PART 1. JERUSALEM IS SURROUNDED AND JEREMIAH DECLARES THAT THERE IS NO POINT IN HOLDING OUT BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS ABOUT TO BE DESTROYED AND ZEDEKIAH WILL BE CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON TO MEET...
CONTENTS: Message to Zedekiah concerning the coming captivity. Zedekiah's ineffectual decree. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Zedekiah. CONCLUSION: God's compassion toward us should engag...
Jeremiah 34:2. _Go and speak to Zedekiah._ This revelation was delivered in the tenth year of his reign, and would have saved the land, when all hopes of safety were fled. Jeremiah 34:4. _Thou shalt n...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 34:1 God Judges 1:1 Judah. Having declared Judah and Israel’s current sins (chs....
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 34:3 Zedekiah will lose the battle and his freedom. He will go to Babylon with many of his people (Jeremiah 21:7)....
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES:—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Section I., Jeremiah 34:1, is in subject connected with chap. Jeremiah 32:1. These verses, however, seem slightly to antedate that chapter,...
EXPOSITION This chapter must be taken in connection with Jeremiah 35:1. The whole section consists of three passages, introduced with a superscription in the same form, but otherwise unrelated. It ser...
Now we come to a chronologically new set of prophecies, and this is one that Zedekiah threw him in jail for back in the thirty-first chapter, thirty-second chapter. The word which came unto Jeremiah f...
2 Kings 25:4; 2 Kings 25:5; 2 Kings 25:6; 2 Kings 25:7; Ezekiel 12:13
Did Zedekiah see the King of Babylon or not? PROBLEM: Jeremiah declared here to King Zedekiah: “your eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon … and you shall go to Babylon.” However, 2 Kings 25...