Where now are your prophets which prophesied unto you Jeremiah in this v. challenges the whole people through their king ("your … you"). For the reference to these prophets cp. Jeremiah 28:2-11.
Verse Jeremiah 37:19. _WHERE_ ARE _NOW YOUR PROPHETS_] _They_ told you that the Chaldeans should _not_ come; I told you they _would_. According to my word the Chaldeans _are come_, and are departed on...
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...
YOUR PROPHETS. Not Jehovah's. From the beginning they had prophesied falsely. See Jeremiah 6:14; Jeremiah 27:16; Jeremiah 28:2....
WHERE ARE NOW YOUR PROPHETS— _"Where are now your false prophets?_ The event surely demonstrates how much they have deceived you. The siege is again renewed, and the city in imminent danger of being t...
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...
Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land? WHERE ARE NOW YOUR PROPHETS? The event has shown them to be li...
1-5. The general position....
WHERE ARE NOW YOUR PROPHETS...? — The failure of the past predictions of the false prophets is urged on the king as a reason why he should not trust them in the present crisis. They had assured him (J...
_וְ_†_אַיֵּה֙_† נְבִ֣יאֵיכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁר ־נִבְּא֥וּ לָכֶ֖ם לֵ...
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...
_Be. Hebrew, "fall prostrate," chap. xxxvi. 7._...
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...
Here Jeremiah, taking confidence, advances to a higher ground; for he reprobates the folly of Zedekiah, because he had given ear to the false prophets and their flatteries. But this he did, that he mi...
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...
WHERE [ARE] NOW YOUR PROPHETS THAT PROPHESIED UNTO YOU,.... Your false prophets, as the Targum; what is become of their prophecies? where is the truth of them, to which general credit has been given?...
Where [are] now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land? Ver. 19. _Where are now your prophets?_] Let them appear now if...
_Moreover Jeremiah said, What have I offended against thee_ What law have I broken? What injury have I done to thee, or thy people, or government, _that ye have put me in prison_ Have put me into the...
Jeremiah's Arrest and Imprisonment...
Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you nor against this land? Since the predictions of the false prophets had been found to be fa...
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...
You now see what kind of prophets they are, who fed you with hopes that the king of Babylon's army should return no more to the siege of the city. I told you they would return, you had other prophets...
Jeremiah 37:19 now H346 prophets H5030 prophesied H5012 (H8738) saying H559 (H8800) king H4428 Babylon H894 come...
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...
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...
2 Kings 3:13; Deuteronomy 32:36; Deuteronomy 32:37; Ezekiel 13:10;...