the men of war that remain Cp. Jeremiah 38:22. The expression may indicate that many had gone over to the Chaldaeans, a fact which is also implied in Jeremiah 38:19. Doubtless also a considerable number had gone into exile already, and to them we must add those who had fallen in the siege.
Verse Jeremiah 38:4. _LET THIS MAN BE PUT TO DEATH_] And they gave their reasons plain enough: but the _proof_ was wanting....
FOR THUS ... - Because he makes the men of war dispirited. No doubt this was true. Jeremiah, however, did not speak as a private person, but as the representative of the government; the temporal ruler...
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...
WELFARE. peace....
C. Imprisoned by the Princes Jeremiah 38:1-6 TRANSLATION (1) And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur, the son of Malchiah heard th...
Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, i...
1-3. The removal of Jeremiah from the prison was favourable to the publication of his message. Hence the alarm of the princes....
LET THIS MAN BE PUT TO DEATH. — The hatred of the princes of Judah becomes more bitter than ever, and they seek to overcome the king’s lingering reverence for the prophet. In the reign of Jehoiakim th...
וַ יֹּאמְר֨וּ הַ שָּׂרִ֜ים אֶל ־הַ מֶּ֗לֶךְ
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...
Therefore the princes said to the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war (c) that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people,...
What an awful character was Zedekiah! Surely he had strong convictions of the truth, but like another Felix, though he trembled under the word, yet he consents to execute the preacher. Acts 24:25....
Now the princes add, _Die let this man, because in this manner, _or therefore, that is, on account of his bad counsel, _he weakens the hands of the men of war, etc_. Here _hand _is to be taken for val...
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...
THEREFORE THE PRINCES SAID UNTO THE KING,.... The four princes mentioned in Jeremiah 38:1, having heard what Jeremiah said to the people, laid the case before the king, and addressed him upon it in th...
Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in...
_Thus saith the Lord, He that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live_ This had been the constant tenor of this prophet's prophecies. The crime of which he was now accused, seems to lie in this, that...
Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death; for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in...
JEREMIAH CAST INTO A PIT...
WELFARE: _ Heb._ peace...
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...
The prophet now seemeth under sad circumstances, the princes seek his life, though for delivering no other doctrine than he had been preaching for twenty years; their pretence was, his discouraging an...
Jeremiah 38:4 princes H8269 said H559 (H8799) king H4428 man H376 death H4191 (H8714) thus H3651 weakens...
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'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...
LET THIS MAN See (Jeremiah 26:11). The fundamental reason why the prophetic warnings of the Old and New Testaments are unwelcome to an unreasoning optimism....
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...
_The words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people._ UNPATRIOTIC IN APPEARANCE Rays of hope had arisen in the clouded sky of the, nation. An Egyptian army was on its way to the city. Thus, it wa...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 38:4 Unlike in Jeremiah 26:16, the OFFICIALS think Jeremiah should die. They believe his words undermine the war effort. Ironically, though h
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...
1 Kings 18:17; 1 Kings 18:18; 1 Kings 21:20; 2 Chronicles 24:21;...