Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 21:8
Compare the marginal reference; but here the alternative is a life saved by desertion to the enemy, or a death by famine, pestilence, and the sword within the walls.
Compare the marginal reference; but here the alternative is a life saved by desertion to the enemy, or a death by famine, pestilence, and the sword within the walls.
Verse Jeremiah 21:8. _BEHOLD, I SET BEFORE YOU THE WAY OF LIFE, AND THE WAY_ _OF DEATH._] Meaning _escape_ or _destruction_ in the _present_ instance. This is explained in the next verse....
CHAPTER 21 The Prophetic Warning _ 1. Zedekiah's inquiry (Jeremiah 21:1) _ 2. Jehovah's answer through Jeremiah (Jeremiah 21:3) Jeremiah 21:1. It has been said that this chapter is historical
THE OUTCOME OF THE SIEGE (588 B.C.). Zedekiah, apparently at an early stage of the siege of Jerusalem (whilst Jeremiah 37:3 refers to a similar, but later, incident) sends envoys, Pashhur (not the sam...
I SET BEFORE YOU, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 30:19). LIFE... DEATH. Note the' _Introversion_ in Jeremiah 21:9, "die... live"....
_the way of life and the way of death_ Somewhat similar expressions in Deut. (Deuteronomy 30:15; Deuteronomy 30:19, or, more probably, the words of Deuteronomy 11:26, though the language there is a le...
See introd. note to section. Owing to such advice Jeremiah was later charged with lack of patriotism, and in fact with treachery (Jeremiah 37:13 ff., Jeremiah 38:2 ff.)....
3. _The advice to the people_ (Jeremiah 21:8-10) TRANSLATION (8) And unto this people you shall say, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am setting before you the way of life and the way of death. (9) The...
And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death. I SET BEFORE YOU THE WAY OF LIFE, AND THE WAY OF DEATH - "life," if ye surr...
JEREMIAH'S TWELFTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF ZEDEKIAH DURING THE SIEGE). ZEDEKIAH'S ROLL This chapter commences a new division of the book extending to the end of Jeremiah 24. We pass from the time of Jehoi...
THE WAY OF LIFE, AND THE WAY OF DEATH. — The words are not unlike those of Deuteronomy 11:26; Deuteronomy 30:15; Deuteronomy 30:19, but there is something like a solemn irony in their application here...
וְ אֶל ־הָ עָ֤ם הַ זֶּה֙ תֹּאמַ֔ר
CHAPTER XI A BROKEN COVENANT Jeremiah 21:1, Jeremiah 34:1, Jeremiah 37:1 "All the princes and peoplechanged their minds and reduced to bondage again all the slaves whom they had set free....
The final series before the fall of Jerusalem consists of messages delivered to Zedekiah (21-27). The occasion of these was, in the first place, Zedekiah's deputation to the prophet. The scourge which...
And to this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the (c) way of life, and the way of (d) death. (c) By yielding yourselves to Nebuchadnezzar. (d) By resisting him....
_Death; the former if they submit, the latter if they fight, ver. 9. (Calmet) --- God's grace is ever ready, that sinners may be converted. (Worthington)_...
As with the priest, so with the people was the prediction of the prophet; see Isaiah 24:1. And what an awful state is that nation in, where corruption is universal?...
God here declares that he proposed to the _people the way of life and the way of death_, in order that they might surely know that all who remained in the city would soon meet with death, and that tho...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21, 22, AND 23. On the occasion of Zedekiah's request to Jeremiah to know if the Lord would interfere in favour of the people against Nebuchadnezzar, the Spir...
AND UNTO THE PEOPLE THOU SHALT SAY, THUS SAITH THE LORD,.... These are the words, not of the prophet to the messengers of the king, ordering or advising them what they each of them should say to the p...
And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death. Ver. 8. _Behold, I will set before you the way of life and the way of death._...
_And unto this people thou shalt say_, &c. By the civil message which the king sent to Jeremiah it appeared that both he and the people began to have respect for him; but the reply which God obliged h...
A MESSAGE TO JUDAH AND ITS KING...
And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death, putting it up to their own choice and laying the responsibility of their decisi...
1-10 When the siege had begun, Zedekiah sent to ask of Jeremiah respecting the event. In times of distress and danger, men often seek those to counsel and pray for them, whom, at other times, they de...
I tell you the way that you should take if you would save your lives, and the course which if you take you will certainly lose your lives....
Jeremiah 21:8 say H559 (H8799) people H5971 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 set H5414 (H8802) before...
ZEDEKIAH APPEALS TO JEREMIAH AS A LAST RESORT, ONLY TO LEARN THAT THERE IS NO HOPE OF INTERVENTION BY YHWH WHOSE WILL IS BEING DONE (JEREMIAH 21:1). As we have seen these verses form an inclusio along...
CONTENTS: Message to King Zedekiah. Babylonian captivity foretold. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Zedekiah, Pashur, Zephaniah, Nebuchadnezzar. CONCLUSION: If God be for us, none can be against us, but i...
Jeremiah 21:1. _Pashur the son of Melchiah,_ a different person from the Pashur named in the preseding chapter, who was son of Immer. Jeremiah 21:8. _I set before you the way of life, and the way of d...
_I set before you the way of life, and the way of death._ GOD’S MESSAGE OF LIFE AND DEATH I. It is God’s prerogative to mark the path in which He would have us go for both worlds. 1. In His written...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 21:1 Jeremiah’s Confrontations. Having solidified his relationship with God, Jeremiah confronts his enemies and their beliefs. He opposes kings ...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 21:8 Jerusalemites have two choices: surrender to Babylon and LIVE, or fight Babylon and DIE....
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Beginning of Zedekiah’s reign. _Vide_ Notes, and especially _Personal Allusions_ to chap. 1. _Usher_ dates the chapter B.C. 589; _Hales_ B....
EXPOSITION The chapter falls into three parts, two of which seem to be in some sort of connection, while the third is isolated. First comes a warning to the messengers of Zedekiah of the unfortunate i...
Jeremiah chapter 21. Now the book of Jeremiah is not written in a consecutive kind of an order. This particular prophecy Jeremiah dates. They're just the prophecies of Jeremiah at particular times in...
Deuteronomy 11:26; Deuteronomy 30:15; Deuteronomy 30:19; Isaiah 1:19;...
Behold — I tell you the way you should take, if you would save your lives....