Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Jeremiah 37:4
We shall read afterward, Jeremiah 37:15, that he was imprisoned; and we have heard, Jer 32, of two revelations he had while he was in prison; but as yet he walked at liberty.
We shall read afterward, Jeremiah 37:15, that he was imprisoned; and we have heard, Jer 32, of two revelations he had while he was in prison; but as yet he walked at liberty.
Verse Jeremiah 37:4. _NOW JEREMIAH CAME IN AND WENT OUT_] After the siege was raised, he had a measure of liberty; he was not _closely confined_, as he afterwards was. See Jeremiah 37:16....
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 37, 38. FORTUNES OF JEREMIAH DURING THE SIEGE (588- 586). JEREMIAH 37:1. Zedekiah, made vassal-king in place of his nephew, Jehoiachin (in 597) sends Jehucal (Jeremiah 38:1) and Zephaniah (J...
_came in and went out_ WAS STILL COMING IN AND GOING OUT, was still free, had not suffered arrest. That was immediately to follow....
I. THE PROPHET CONSULTED Jeremiah 37:3-10 In 589 B.C. Zedekiah foolishly rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar his overlord. Jerusalem had to pay the inevitable consequences. In 588 B.C. the armies of Babyl...
Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison. JEREMIAH ... THEY HAD NOT PUT HIM INTO PRISON. He was no longer in the prison court, as he had been (; ); w...
1-5. The general position....
JEREMIAH CAME IN AND WENT OUT AMONG THE PEOPLE. — The statement is made in reference to the event narrated in Jeremiah 37:15. He was free when the king’s message came to him: it was his answer to that...
וְ יִרְמְיָ֕הוּ בָּ֥א וְ יֹצֵ֖א בְּ תֹ֣וךְ
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....
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...
Now Jeremiah came (d) in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison. (d) That is, was out of prison and free....
There is somewhat very singular in this relation of Jeremiah's freedom. Surely the boldness, and faithfulness of the Prophet, must have been very galling to the king and his people. But God's fear was...
But Jeremiah tells us that he was then at liberty, coming in and going out _among the people _It may be that he had been in prison, but that after the rage of the king and of the people had cooled, he...
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...
NOW JEREMIAH CAME IN AND WENT OUT AMONG THE PEOPLE,.... Was at full liberty, and could go out of the city, and come in, when he pleased; or go into any part of it, and converse with the people, and pr...
Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison. Ver. 4. _Jeremiah came in and went out._] He was yet at liberty; as the saints have some halcyons times, yet...
_Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah_ This man came in the place of Pashur, who, together with Zephaniah, brought the former message from Zedekiah; _saying, Pray now unto the Lord our God for u...
A PROPHECY CONCERNING THE OUTCOME OF THE SIEGE...
Now, Jeremiah came in and went out among the people, he was at that time unhampered in his movements; FOR THEY HAD NOT PUT HIM INTO PRISON, he was not in ward in the prison court, where he had been co...
1-10 Numbers witness the fatal effects of other men's sins, yet heedlessly step into their places, and follow the same destructive course. When in distress, we ought to desire the prayers of minister...
Jeremiah 37:4 Jeremiah H3414 coming H935 (H8804) going H3318 (H8802) among H8432 people H5971 put H5414 ...
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...
A SUMMARY OF THE POLITICAL SITUATION AT THIS STAGE (JEREMIAH 37:1). The political situation at this stage can be summed up in a few words. Jerusalem was under siege because Zedekiah, Jehoiakim's uncle...
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...
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...
Jeremiah 32:2; Jeremiah 32:3; Jeremiah 37:15...