George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 38:6
Mire, up to the neck; so that he would soon have been smothered. (Josephus, Antiquities x. 10.)
Mire, up to the neck; so that he would soon have been smothered. (Josephus, Antiquities x. 10.)
Verse Jeremiah 38:6. _SO JEREMIAH SUNK IN THE MIRE._] Their obvious design was, that he might be stifled in that place....
THE DUNGEON - The cistern. Every house in Jerusalem was supplied with a subterranean cistern, so well constructed that the city never suffered in a siege from want of water. So large were they that wh...
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...
DUNGEON. See note on Jeremiah 37:16. HAMMELECH. the king. See note on Jeremiah 36:26. PRISON. house of detention. SUNK IN THE MIRE. To be preferred to the moral sinking of Zedekiah in J
_the dungeon of Malchijah_ mg. _pit_; a cistern for storage of water; see on Jeremiah 6:7. The depth and wretchedness of this place of confinement are shewn by the means employed to place Jeremiah in...
THEN TOOK THEY JEREMIAH— It is commonly thought that Jeremiah, during his abode in this loathsome place, composed the melancholy meditations inserted in the third chapter of his Lamentations. See Lame...
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...
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no wa...
38:6 dungeon (a-10) As ch. 37.16, and so throughout. Hammelech, (b-16) See Note, ch. 36.26....
1-3. The removal of Jeremiah from the prison was favourable to the publication of his message. Hence the alarm of the princes....
DUNGEON] RM 'pit,'or cistern. It is conjectured that Psalms 69 may have been composed by Jeremiah on this occasion. 7-13. Jeremiah is rescued by Ebed-melech....
THE DUNGEON OF MALCHIAH THE SON OF HAMMELECH. — Literally, _the pit,_ or _cistern._ The LXX. agrees with the marginal reading in describing him as “a son of the king.” The same phrase is so translated...
וַ יִּקְח֣וּ אֶֽת ־יִרְמְיָ֗הוּ וַ יַּשְׁלִ֨כוּ...
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...
What an awful character was Zedekiah! Surely he had strong convictions of the truth, but like another Felix, though he trembled under the word, yet he consents to execute the preacher. Acts 24:25....
HERE is narrated the extreme presumption as well as cruelty of the princes; for they cast the holy Prophet into a pit, where he sank in the mire. It was a proof of hardened impiety not to spare so exc...
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...
THEN TOOK THEY JEREMIAH,.... Having the king's leave, or at least no prohibition from him; they went with proper attendants to the court of the prison, and took the prophet from thence: AND CAST HIM...
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon [there was] no...
_Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah_ A place of much the same nature with that mentioned Jeremiah 37:16, but in another prison. _And they let down Jeremiah with cords_ I...
Then took they Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon, a pit formerly used as a cistern, OF MALCHIAH, THE SON OF HAMMELECH, THAT WAS IN THE COURT OF THE PRISON; AND THEY LET DOWN JEREMIAH WITH CORDS,...
JEREMIAH CAST INTO A PIT...
OF HAMMELECH: Or, of the king...
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...
CAST HIM INTO THE DUNGEON OF MALCHIAH THE SON OF HAMMELECH, THAT WAS IN THE COURT OF THE PRISON; a place much of the same nature with that of which we read JEREMIAH 37:16, but in another prison. It sh...
Jeremiah 38:6 took H3947 (H8799) Jeremiah H3414 cast H7993 (H8686) dungeon H953 Malchiah H4441 kings H4428 son...
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'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...
THEN TOOK THEY (_ See Scofield) - (Jeremiah 37:11). _...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 38:6 Unlike in Jeremiah 37:20, Jeremiah cannot avoid imprisonment in a CISTERN. Cisterns were dug out of rock, had a small opening, and sprea
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...
2 Corinthians 4:8; 2 Corinthians 4:9; Acts 16:24; Genesis 37:24;...