Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Jeremiah 37:16
When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon and into the cabins, or underground vaults, and Jeremiah had remained there many days, in this unjust imprisonment,
When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon and into the cabins, or underground vaults, and Jeremiah had remained there many days, in this unjust imprisonment,
Verse Jeremiah 37:16. _ENTERED INTO THE DUNGEON, AND INTO THE CABINS_] The dungeon was probably a deep pit; and the cabins or _cells_, niches in the sides, where different malefactors were confined. S...
DUNGEON - literally, house of a cistern or pit, and evidently underground. In this cistern-like excavation were several cells or arched vaults, in one of which with little light and less ventilation J...
JEREMIAH AND ZEDEKIAH AND THE FALL OF JERUSALEM (37-39) CHAPTER 37 _ 1. Jeremiah's warning (Jeremiah 37:1) _ 2. Jeremiah's arrest (Jeremiah 37:11) Jeremiah 37:1. To understand more fully
Jeremiah, during the interval in the siege, is leaving the city by a northern gate on private business (perhaps connected with the earlier incident of Jeremiah 32:6 ff.), when he is arrested by the of...
WHEN, &C.. For Jeremiah [actually] entered, &c, DUNGEON. house of the pit. Hebrew. _bor._ See notes on Genesis 21:19 ("well"). Isaiah 14:19 ("pit"). CABINS. cells. REMAINED. abode. Note the Figure o...
_dungeon house_ lit. as mg. _house of the pit_. Cp. Jeremiah 38:6. _cells_ The Heb. word is found here only and seems to denote a room with a vaulted roof. _many days_ during which time the Chaldaea...
See introd. summary to ch....
WHEN JEREMIAH WAS ENTERED, &C.— _But Jeremiah was brought into a deep and secret dungeon._ Houbigant. From comparing this place with ch. Jeremiah 38:6 it seems likely that _the dungeon_ was a deep pit...
B. Summoned by the King Jeremiah 37:16-21 TRANSLATION (16) When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon vaults and had remained there several days, (17) Zedekiah the king sent and had him brought; and the...
When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; THE DUNGEON ... THE CABINS. The prison consisted of a pit (the "dungeon") with vaulted c...
37:16 dungeon (c-7) Lit. 'house of the pit,' as Exodus 12:29 ; or 'cistern,' Isaiah 36:16 . see ch. 41.9 and Genesis 37:20 ....
1-5. The general position....
CABINS] RV 'cells.'...
כִּ֣י בָ֧א יִרְמְיָ֛הוּ אֶל ־בֵּ֥ית הַ בֹּ֖ור
CHAPTER XII JEREMIAH'S IMPRISONMENT Jeremiah 37:11, Jeremiah 38:1, Jeremiah 39:15 "Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken."-...
This and the two following Chapter s contain the history of the siege up to the fall of the city. In the first part of this chapter Jeremiah was free. Zedekiah occupied the throne, but was disobedient...
We have here a most interesting relation, in which Jeremiah appears most delightful indeed. Neither stripes, nor prisons, can make the faithful servants of the Lord less faithful: yea the exercises of...
The particle כי, _ki, _is to be taken here as an adverb of time, as I think, though interpreters have not observed this, _When Jeremiah_, he says, _came into the house of the pit _or dungeon, or of th...
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...
WHEN JEREMIAH WAS ENTERED INTO THE DUNGEON,.... Or, "into the house of the pit" l; a dungeon, like a pit or ditch, dark, dirty, or dismal: AND INTO THE CABINS; or "cells" m; into a place more inward...
_When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;_ Ver. 16. _When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon._] _a_ Heb., Into a place or house o...
_When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon_ Hebrew אל בית הבור, _into the house of the pit, ditch_, or _lake; and into the cabins_ Or, _cells_, as החניות signifies. “From comparing this place with ch...
CABINS: Or, cells...
11-21 There are times when it is the wisdom of good men to retire, to enter into their chambers, and to shut the doors, Isaiah 26:20. Jeremiah was seized as a deserter, and committed to prison. But i...
The Hebrew words which we translate DUNGEON signify the _house of the lake_; they certainly signify some pit, or deep hole, or place in the prison, where were some cells or apartments, in which they w...
Jeremiah 37:16 Jeremiah H3414 entered H935 (H8804) dungeon H1004 H953 cells H2588 Jeremiah H3414 remained H3427 ...
AFTER HAVING SPENT SOME TIME IN PRISON JEREMIAH WAS SUMMONED TO APPEAR BEFORE KING ZEDEKIAH WHO SECRETLY SOUGHT HIS COUNSEL, GIVING JEREMIAH THE OPPORTUNITY TO APPEAL AGAINST HIS SITUATION. AS A RESUL...
THE DISOBEDIENCE OF JUDAH AND ITS KING IS HIGHLIGHTED BY THEIR TREATMENT OF THE PROPHET OF YHWH (JEREMIAH 37:1 TO JEREMIAH 38:28). These events once again took place during the reign of Zedekiah, the...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's imprisonment in the days of Zedekiah. CHARACTERS: Zedekiah, Coniah, Nebuchadnezzar, Jeremiah, Jehucal, Zephaniah, Jonathan, Irijah. CONCLUSION: It is no new thing for those who h...
Jeremiah 37:5. _Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt._ The Chaldeans were afraid of them, and raised the siege. But this joy to Jerusalem was of short continuance; the Chaldeans returned after t...
_And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem._ JEREMIAH PERSECUTED After the captivity and death of Jehoiakim, his brother Zedekiah, another son of Josiah, s...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 37:16 DUNGEON CELLS. The phrase refers to either a cell in a cistern (see note on 38:6) or a vaulted room underground. Either option indicates a damp, unhealthy place....
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. In the tenth and eleventh year of Zedekiah. Later than chap. 21, for that embassy was sent when Nebuchadnezzar was marching against Jerusal...
EXPOSITION Nothing worthy of relation appears to have happened to Jeremiah till the latter period of the reign of Zedekiah. The first two verses of this chapter form the transition. The embassy to Je...
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...
Genesis 40:15; Jeremiah 38:10; Jeremiah 38:6; Lamentations 3:53;...
The dungeon — The Hebrew words signify some pit, or deep hole, where were some cells or apartments, in which they were wont to keep those whom they judged great malefactors....