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AND HE WAS THERE WHEN ... - These words are altered by some to “and
it came to pass when” etc., and taken to form the opening of
Jeremiah 39....
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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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Zedekiah asks Jeremiah about the future, swearing immunity to him,
whatever his answer (Jeremiah 38:16). Jeremiah urges him to save
himself and the city by surrender to Nebuchadrezzar's princes
(Nebuc...
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ABODE. See the note on Jeremiah 37:16. further date: viz. "in the
tenth day of the month"....
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_of the guard_ See on Jeremiah 32:2....
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F. Questioned by the Princes Jeremiah 38:27-28
TRANSLATION
(27) And all the princes came unto Jeremiah and questioned him; and he
told them according to all the words which the king commanded. Then
t...
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So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that
Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
HE WAS [THERE] WHEN JERUSALEM WAS TAKEN. These words are made the
be...
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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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AND HE WAS, etc.] RV 'And it came to pass when Jerusalem was taken';
the words thus belonging not to what precedes, but to Jeremiah 39....
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וַ יֵּ֤שֶׁב יִרְמְיָ֨הוּ֙ בַּ חֲצַ֣ר
הַ מַּטּ
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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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The poor Prophet is hunted like the partridge upon the mountains. But
though in the midst of foes, yet in no real danger. As he was before
the siege, so through the whole of it; and so in the end. So...
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REFLECTIONS
READER! we peruse this portion of God's holy word to little purpose,
if so be that we do not, under his divine teaching, gather from it the
blessed instructions it holds forth. For what is...
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Some render the last words simply thus, “And it happened that
Jerusalem was taken;” and others, “It happened accordingly that
Jerusalem was taken;_” _but this seems unnatural. Others take the
relative...
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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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SO JEREMIAH ABODE IN THE COURT OF THE PRISON,.... Where he was ordered
to be by the king, before he was cast into the dungeon, and where he
was replaced by Ebedmelech; and which was now confirmed by t...
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So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that
Jerusalem was taken: and he was [there] when Jerusalem was taken.
Ver. 28. _So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison._] Which now
G...
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14-28 Jeremiah was not forward to repeat the warnings, which seemed
only to endanger his own life, and to add to the king's guilt, but
asked whether he feared to do the will of God. The less men fear...
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Thus God hath several ways to hide his people in an evil day; he hid
Josiah from it in the grave; he hid Noah in an ark, Lot in Zoar,
Jeremiah in a prison, which in probability was a safer place for h...
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Jeremiah 38:28 Jeremiah H3414 remained H3427 (H8799) court H2691
prison H4307 day H3117 Jerusalem H3389 taken H3920
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ZEDEKIAH ONCE AGAIN CONSULTS JEREMIAH AND KEEPS HIM SAFELY IN THE
COURT OF THE GUARD UNTIL JERUSALEM IS TAKEN (JEREMIAH 38:14).
This was to be Zedekiah's last consultation with Jeremiah. During it
he...
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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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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 38:28 THE DAY THAT JERUSALEM WAS TAKEN.
Babylon renewed the siege, as Jeremiah had promised (see Jeremiah
37:6). Babylon eventually triumphed
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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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2 Timothy 3:11; 2 Timothy 4:17; 2 Timothy 4:18; Jeremiah 15:20;...