And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, [that] this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Ver. 1. _And it came to pass in the fourth year._] This whole chapter is historical and narrative, as also are some others besides this. _Historias lege, n... [ Continue Reading ]
_Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day._ Ver. 2. Take thee a roll _a_ of a book,] _i.e., _ A volume. _as _ I... [ Continue Reading ]
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin. Ver. 3. _It may be that the house of Judah will hear, &c._] See here the utility of the Holy Scriptures, and t... [ Continue Reading ]
_Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book._ Ver. 4. Then Jeremiah calIed Baruch, … and _a_ Baruch wrote from the mouth.] _Dictantis ab ore pependit._ Jeremiah, it seemeth... [ Continue Reading ]
_And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I [am] shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:_ Ver. 5. _I am shut up._] Or, I am detained, or restrained; haply by some legal pollution that he had contracted, as by touching a dead carcase, &c.; or by some bodily infirmity, or by the lying in wait... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities. Ver. 6. _Therefore go thou, and read in the... [ Continue Reading ]
It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great [is] the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people. Ver. 7. _It may be they will present their supplication._] Heb., Their supplication will fall before... [ Continue Reading ]
And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD'S house. Ver. 8. _And Baruch the son of Neriah did according, &c._] _Nihil de sua saliva admiscens._ He faithfully performed the prophet Jeremiah's comman... [ Continue Reading ]
And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, [that] they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem. Ver. 9. _They proclaimed a fast._] Haply for... [ Continue Reading ]
Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house, in the ears of all the people. Ver. 10. _Then Baruch read in the book._] He read with a coura... [ Continue Reading ]
When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD, Ver. 11. _When Micaiah the son of Gemariah had heard._] With what affection he heard the book read by Baruch is uncertain. We have many Herodian hearers before us a second time - such, I mean... [ Continue Reading ]
Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, [even] Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes. Ver. 12. Then... [ Continue Reading ]
Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people. Ver. 13. _Then Micaiah declared unto them._] See Jeremiah 36:11 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them. Ver. 14. _There... [ Continue Reading ]
And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read [it] in their ears. Ver. 15. _And they said, Sit down now_] _a_ This was some courtesy and token of good respect to Baruch. These princes were not all out so bad as their king. _ a_ _Reverenter sedere iusserunt._ - _Oeco... [ Continue Reading ]
_Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words._ Ver. 16. _They were afraid, both one and other,_] _a_ _Expavescunt et sese mutuo respiciunt; _ they were afraid, and looked one upon... [ Continue Reading ]
_And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?_ Ver. 17. _Tell us, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?_] _Praeposteram movent interrogationem; _ they put an odd question, saith one, when they should rather have bethought themselves of... [ Continue Reading ]
Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote [them] with ink in the book. Ver. 18. _And Baruch answered them._] Answerably _a_ to the question they asked him. Jer 36:17 _Dignum patella operculum._ And I wrote them with ink in the book.] The use, then... [ Continue Reading ]
_Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be._ Ver. 19. _Go hide thee, thou and Jeremiah._] This was well, but not all. They draw not Baruch before the king to answer what he had done; but why do they not take him to the king with his roll, a... [ Continue Reading ]
And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king. Ver. 20. _And they went in to the king._] God by his providence so disposed it, that both king and princes, whether they would or not, should... [ Continue Reading ]
So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king. Ver. 21. _So the king sent Jehudi._] See on Jeremiah 36:14 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and [there was a fire] on the hearth burning before him. Ver. 22. _Now the king sat in the winter house._] There sat he, in that his stately and sumptuous palace built by iniquity, Jer 22:13-14 _curans cuticulam ad focum,_ keeping himself warm... [ Continue Reading ]
And it came to pass, [that] when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast [it] into the fire that [was] on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that [was] on the hearth. Ver. 23. _When Jehudi had read three or four leaves._] Vespasian is said to... [ Continue Reading ]
_Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, [neither] the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words._ Ver. 24. _Yet they were not afraid._] _Ne paulum quidem perculsi sunt._ The king and his servants, those court parasites, were not stirred at all at such a Bible bonfire, but... [ Continue Reading ]
Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them. Ver. 25. _Nevertheless Elnathan._] Who had before been active for the king in apprehending and slaughtering the prophet Uriah, Jer 26:22 but now haply touche... [ Continue Reading ]
But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them. Ver. 26. _But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech._] Or, The king's son, whom he might empl... [ Continue Reading ]
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, Ver. 27. _Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah._] Jehoiakim took an ill course to free himself from trouble, as he counted it, by burning the... [ Continue Reading ]
Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned. Ver. 28. _Take thee again another roll._] _Revertere, accipe._ God's ministers must be steadfast and unweariable, always abounding in the work of the Lord,... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? Ver. 29. _And thou shalt say to Jehoiaki... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. Ver. 30. _He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David,_] _i.e., _ None to make any reckonin... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not. Ver. 31. _And I will punish him and his seed._] See on Jere... [ Continue Reading ]
_Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words._ Ver. 32. _Then took Jeremiah._... [ Continue Reading ]