See 1Ki 15:22; 2 Chronicles 16:6.
by the side of Gedaliah With the slightest possible change in the consonants of the MT. we may accept an almost certain correction, and read (with LXX) "was a great cistern" (tank for the storage of water). Cp. the tragic story of the "well" at Cawnpore in the Indian mutiny.
Verse Jeremiah 41:9. _NOW THE PIT - WAS IT WHICH ASA THE KING HAD MADE FOR FEAR_ _OF BAASHA_] See 1 Kings 15:22. Asa made this cistern as a reservoir for water for the supply of the place; for he bui...
BECAUSE OF GEDALIAH - By the side “of Gedaliah.” Ishmael now cast beside Gedaliah’s body those of the pilgrims....
III. AFTER THE FALL OF JERUSALEM (40-45) Chapter S 40-41 The Treachery in the Land and the Flight to Egypt _ 1. Jeremiah's choice (Jeremiah 40:1) _ 2. Gedaliah and Ishmael's deed (Jeremiah 40:7; J
ISHMAEL'S DEEDS AND FLIGHT. Eighty pilgrims from N. Israel to Jerusalem, mourning its fall, and carrying offerings (Jeremiah 17:26), were met by Ishmael and enticed into Mizpah. There he killed them a...
THE PIT: or, cistern. Not mentioned elsewhere, but see 1 Kings 15:22 and 2 Chronicles 16:6. BECAUSE OF. besides. WAS IT. By regrouping the letters, this reads "[was]. large pit which", &c....
NOW THE PIT, &C.— בור _bor,_ signifies a basin, cistern, or reservoir; a large pit for receiving rain water, which Asa, who built and fortified Mizpah at the time he was at war with Baasha king of Isr...
3. _The massacre of the pilgrims_ (Jeremiah 41:4-9) TRANSLATION (4) And it came to pass on the day after the murder of Gedaliah, while no man yet knew of it, (5) eighty men from Shechem, Shiloh and S...
Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son o...
41:9 pit (a-3) As ch. 37.16. of (b-23) Or 'because of.'...
PLOT AGAINST GEDALIAH AND ITS RESULTS (586 B.C.) 1-10. Ishmael murders Gedaliah and others, and carries off captives....
BECAUSE OF] RV 'by the side of,'i.e. their bodies placed by his. ASA.. BAASHA] see 1 Kings 15:22. 11-18. Johanan rescues the captives and they start for Egypt....
BECAUSE OF GEDALIAH. — Literally, _by the hand of Gedaliah; i.e.,_ by using his name to entrap the unsuspecting pilgrims. WHICH ASA THE KING HAD MADE FOR FEAR OF BAASHA... — See 1 Kings 15:22; 2 Chron...
וְ הַ בֹּ֗ור אֲשֶׁר֩ הִשְׁלִ֨יךְ שָׁ֤ם יִשְׁמ
CHAPTER XIII GEDALIAH Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 41:1; Jeremiah 52:1 "Then arose Ishmael ben Nethani
Johanan's story proved to be true, and by the basest treachery Ishmael, with a handful of men, murdered Gedaliah and a number of others, and carried away the rest captive, intending to take them to th...
Now the pit into which Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, [was] that which Asa the king had (f) made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: [and] Ishma...
Was there ever a monster of iniquity further gone in the lust of human blood / than this Ishmael? The Prophet doth not fail to tell us that he was of the seed royal! Oh! how disgraceful, had he been o...
The Prophet tells us by the way that the trench was made by King Asa, when he fortified the city against the attack of Baasha, as it is related in the sixteenth chapter of Second Chronicles. For Baash...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 39 THROUGH 44. After this, chapter 39 and the following Chapter s give us the history of the confusion and iniquity that reigned among the remnant who were no...
NOW THE PIT WHEREIN ISHMAEL HAD CAST ALL THE DEAD BODIES,.... Not only of those seventy men of Samaria, c. but OF THE MEN WHOM HE HAD SLAIN BECAUSE OF GEDALIAH because of their attachment to him: or,...
Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, [was] it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: [and] Ishmael the so...
_Now the pit was it which Asa had made_, &c. The word בור, here and elsewhere rendered _pit_, frequently signifies, _a cistern, basin_, or, _reservoir;_ a large place made for receiving rain-water; wh...
ISHMAEL SLAYS GEDALIAH...
Now, the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, literally, "at the hand of Gedaliah," that is, next to Gedaliah, whom he had first cast into...
because of Gedaliah: Or, near Gedaliah: _Heb._ by the hand or by the side of Gedaliah...
1-10 Those who hate the worshippers of God, often put on the appearance of piety, that they may the easier hurt them. As death often meets men where they least expect it, we should continually search...
OLBHeb; The word which we translate BECAUSE OF dyb signifieth _in the hand of Gedaliah_, which hath given critics a scope to vary in their notion of it, and to translate it, _in the power of, by occas...
Jeremiah 41:9 pit H953 Ishmael H3458 cast H7993 (H8689) bodies H6297 men H582 slain H5221 (H8689) because...
ISHMAEL CONTINUES HIS BLOODTHIRSTY SLAUGHTER AND SEEKS TO ESCAPE TO AMMON (JEREMIAH 41:4). Having carried out his bloodbath Ishmael now learned of a party of pilgrims who were approaching Mizpah, comi...
CONTENTS: Gedeliah slain, and many Jewish captives released by Johanan. CHARACTERS: Ishmael, Gedeliah, Asa, Nebuzaraden, Johanan. CONCLUSION: God sometimes permits bloody work to be done for the com...
Jeremiah 41:1. _In the seventh month,_ two months after the city had been taken, and the temple burned. Ishmael and his ten companions, who had held high commissions under Zedekiah, were feasted by th...
_Then arose Ishmael._ DEVILS INCARNATE 1. If ever there was such a one, this Ishmael was of whom these verses tell. His atrocities remind us of the Indian Mutiny, its leader, and the well at Cawnpor...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—Only three months after Jerusalem was captured by the Chaldeans: “in the _seventh month_” (Jeremiah 41:1, comp. chap. Jeremiah 32:2) See notes...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 41:1 Assassination of Gedaliah and other Jews. JEREMIAH 41:1 IN THE SEVENTH MONTH; _i.e._ two months after the destruction of Jerusalem and the appointment of Gedaliah. It seems...
Tonight let's turn to Jeremiah chapter 41 as we continue our study through the Bible. Now, these are prophecies that Jeremiah made to the people after Nebuchadnezzar had come and carried away king Zed...
1 Kings 15:17; 1 Samuel 13:6; 1 Samuel 14:11; 1 Samuel 14:22;...