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Jeremiah 38:11
under the treasury to a room under the treasury, a sort of lumber-room.
old cast clouts and old rotten rags worn out pieces of torn and ragged garments, to ease the pressure of the ropes.
under the treasury to a room under the treasury, a sort of lumber-room.
old cast clouts and old rotten rags worn out pieces of torn and ragged garments, to ease the pressure of the ropes.
Verse Jeremiah 38:11. _WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF THE KING - AND TOOK THENCE_] The eastern kings had their wardrobes always well furnished; as garments were a usual present to ambassadors, c. I cannot thi...
OLD CAST CLOUTS ... - Rags of torn garments and rags of worn-out garments....
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
Four of the princes (Jeremiah 37:15) hear Jeremiah (confined in the guard-court, Jeremiah 37:21) foretelling the fall of the city and advising individual surrender (_cf._ Jeremiah 21:9 f.). They denou...
OLD CAST. cast-off clothes. CLOUTS. patches. Ang. -Sax. _clut =_. patch....
D. Rescued by Ebed-melech Jeremiah 38:7-13 TRANSLATION (7) And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian. one of the eunuchs attached to the household if the king, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon. No...
So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jerem...
1-3. The removal of Jeremiah from the prison was favourable to the publication of his message. Hence the alarm of the princes....
UNDER THE TREASURY... — This was obviously what we should call the “lumber-room” of the palace. Nothing could show the acuteness of the prophet’s sufferings more vividly than the precautions which the...
וַ יִּקַּ֣ח ׀ עֶֽבֶד־מֶ֨לֶךְ אֶת ־הָ אֲנָשִׁ֜ים...
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...
See how the Lord raiseth instruments, from the most unexpected quarters, for the deliverance of his people. Here was a stranger, and a Gentile, prompted to fly to the rescue of one of the Lord's proph...
Here Jeremiah goes on with the history of his deliverance. The courage of Ebedmelech ought ever to be noticed by us, for he went immediately to the holy Prophet. And it is said, that he _took _from so...
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...
SO EBEDMELECH TOOK THE MEN WITH HIM,.... The thirty men, as the king ordered: as soon as ever he had got the grant, he immediately set about the work, and lost no time to save the prophet's life: AND...
So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremia...
_Then the king commanded_, &c. The king, who a little while ago durst do nothing against the princes, has now his heart wonderfully and suddenly changed, and will have Jeremiah released in defiance of...
So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went into the house of the king under the treasury, to a room which was evidently used for storage purposes, AND TOOK THENCE OLD CAST CLOUTS AND OLD ROTTEN RAG...
JEREMIAH CAST INTO A PIT...
1-13 Jeremiah went on in his plain preaching. The princes went on in their malice. It is common for wicked people to look upon God's faithful ministers as enemies, because they show what enemies the...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Jeremiah 38:11 Ebed-Melech H5663 took H3947 (H8799) men H582 him H3027 went H935 (H8799) house H1004 king...
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...
JEREMIAH IS SEEN AS A TRAITOR AND IS THRUST INTO A WELL FILLED WITH DEEP MUD WHICH WAS IN THE COURT OF THE GUARD, WHERE HE WOULD HAVE DIED HAD HE NOT BEEN RESCUED BY EBEDMELECH, A SUDANESE (JEREMIAH 3...
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...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's imprisonment, continued. His private conference with the king. CHARACTERS: Shephatiah, Gedaliah, Jucal, Pashur, Jeremiah, Zedekiah, Malchiah, Ebed-melech, Jonathan. CONCLUSION: G...
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...
_Ebed-melech the Ethiopian._ EBED-MELECH THE ETHIOPIAN A slave from the Soudan, an eunuch in the household of Zedekiah, King of Judah, is by the side of the great Jeremiah, a humble servant yet an e...
A BUNDLE OF RAGS Old cast clouts and old rotten rags. Jeremiah 38:11. This is an odd text, is it not? what you might call a good-for-nothing text. Well, let us see if we can't find some good even i...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 38:11 EBED-MELECH continues to prove resourceful on Jeremiah’s behalf. ⇐...
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...
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...
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 38:6...