THE PRINCES - Not the noblemen trained in the days of Josiah and Jeremiah’s friends Jeremiah 26:16, but those described in Jeremiah 24:8. They assumed that the accusation was true; they first scourged...
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...
PRINCES. Named in Jeremiah 38:1. none of whom had been favourable to Jeremiah in the days of Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 26:16)....
See introd. summary to ch....
II. THE PROPHET CONFINED Jeremiah 37:11 to Jeremiah 38:28 Jeremiah experienced a great deal of suffering at the hands of the national leaders during those last dark days before the fall of Jerusalem....
_THEN SAID JEREMIAH, IT IS FALSE; I FALL NOT AWAY TO THE CHALDEANS. BUT HE HEARKENED NOT TO HIM: SO IRIJAH TOOK JEREMIAH, AND BROUGHT HIM TO THE PRINCES._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
1-5. The general position....
IRIJAH TOOK JEREMIAH, AND BROUGHT HIM TO THE PRINCES. — These were probably, as a body, identical with those named in Jeremiah 36:12, but the party opposed to the prophet were now apparently stronger...
וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר יִרְמְיָ֜הוּ שֶׁ֗קֶר אֵינֶ֤נִּי נֹפֵל֙...
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...
_Beat him, as a traitor and fugitive. --- Prison, very deep, ver. 19. (Calmet)_...
Falling off to the Chaldeans, had such a thought been entertained, should have been while they were besieging Jerusalem. The thing spoke for itself, that it was both false and absurd. But, Reader! is...
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...
THEN SAID JEREMIAH, [IT IS] FALSE,.... Or a "falsehood" k; as undoubtedly it was; I FALL NOT AWAY TO THE CHALDEANS; for the Chaldean army was gone from the city; nor did Jeremiah like so well to be w...
Then said Jeremiah, [It is] false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. Ver. 14. _Then said Jeremiah, It is false._]...
_When he was in the gate of Benjamin_ The gate leading toward the country of Benjamin; _Irijah, the son of Hananiah_ Probably of that Hananiah whose death Jeremiah had foretold, Jeremiah 28:17; _took...
Jeremiah's Arrest and Imprisonment...
Then said Jeremiah, feeling a just resentment on account of the unjust accusation which was brought against him, IT IS FALSE; I FALL NOT AWAY TO THE CHALDEANS. BUT HE HEARKENED NOT TO HIM; SO IRIJAH T...
FALSE: _ Heb._ falsehood or lie...
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...
Though Jeremiah, as the Lord's prophet, faithfully revealed the will of God, that the Chaldeans should take the city, to warn the people (if possible) to prevent it by solemn addresses unto God, or at...
Jeremiah 37:14 Jeremiah H3414 said H559 (H8799) False H8267 defecting H5307 (H8802) Chaldeans H3778 listen H8085
WHEN SEEKING TO TAKE POSSESSION OF HIS LAND IN BENJAMIN DURING THE LULL IN THE SIEGE JEREMIAH IS FALSELY ACCUSED OF TREACHERY AND THROWN INTO PRISON (JEREMIAH 37:11). Jeremiah's family appears to have...
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...
1 Peter 3:16; 1 Peter 4:14; Jeremiah 40:4; Luke 6:22; Luke 6:23;...