Then follows a confirmation, Given up shall be this city into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and they shall take it The Prophet shews the reason why he exhorted the Jews to flee, because the city would at length be taken. This is substantially what he says.
Verse Jeremiah 38:3. _THIS CITY SHALL SURELY BE GIVEN_] This was a testimony that be constantly bore: he had the authority of God for it. He knew it was true, and he never wavered nor equivocated....
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...
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...
_THUS SAITH THE LORD, THIS CITY SHALL SURELY BE GIVEN INTO THE HAND OF THE KING OF BABYLON'S ARMY, WHICH SHALL TAKE IT._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
1-3. The removal of Jeremiah from the prison was favourable to the publication of his message. Hence the alarm of the princes....
כֹּ֖ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה הִנָּתֹ֨ן תִּנָּתֵ֜ן הָ...
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...
I again and again detain the Reader to remark the faithfulness of Jeremiah. Never surely was there a more conscientious preacher. Let the Reader connect this view of Jeremiah with his ordination, and...
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...
THUS SAITH THE LORD, THIS CITY SHALL SURELY BE GIVEN INTO THE HAND OF THE KING OF BABYLON'S ARMY,.... When those found in it should be put to the sword, or carried captive: this the prophet declares w...
Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it. Ver. 3. _Thus saith the Lord._] And as long as the Lord saith so, I must say so...
_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...
JEREMIAH CAST INTO A PIT...
Thus saith the Lord, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it. Sayings of this kind were the gist of Jeremiah's proclamation to the soldiers and...
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 38:3 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 city H5892 surely H5414 (H8736) given H5414 (H8735) hand...
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...
_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 38:2 This is a summary of Jeremiah’s message concerning Jerusalem for all 10 years of Zedekiah’s reign. See Jeremiah 27:1....
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 21:10; Jeremiah 32:3...