Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 38:10
Thirty men - So large a number suggests that Zedekiah expected some resistance. (Some read “three” men.)
Thirty men - So large a number suggests that Zedekiah expected some resistance. (Some read “three” men.)
Verse Jeremiah 38:10. _TAKE FROM HENCE THIRTY MEN_] The king was determined that he should be rescued by force, if the princes opposed....
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...
THIRTY. The king knew the danger. No need to suppose that "thirty" is. copyist's error for "three"!...
See introd. summary to section....
_thirty men_ The construction of the Heb. numeral is irregular, and we should read THREE, as under the circumstances a more likely number for this duty....
D. Rescued by Ebed-melech Jeremiah 38:7-13 TRANSLATION (7) And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian. one of the eunuchs attached to the household if the king, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon. No...
Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die. TAKE FROM, HENCE ... WITH THEE -...
1-3. The removal of Jeremiah from the prison was favourable to the publication of his message. Hence the alarm of the princes....
THIRTY] possibly a copyist's error for 'three.'The two words resemble each other much more closely in Hebrew than in English. 14-28. The king again asks the prophet's advice. Result....
TAKE FROM HENCE THIRTY MEN. — The number seems a large one for the purpose, especially when we consider that the men were sent from a post from which they could ill be spared, but the king may have wi...
וַ יְצַוֶּ֣ה הַ מֶּ֔לֶךְ אֵ֛ת עֶֽבֶד־מֶ֥לֶךְ...
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...
See how the Lord raiseth instruments, from the most unexpected quarters, for the deliverance of his people. Here was a stranger, and a Gentile, prompted to fly to the rescue of one of the Lord's proph...
We here see, what I have already said, that; the Prophet’s deliverance was wholly from above. The king, smitten with fear, had lately given over the holy Prophet to the cruelty of his princes; and had...
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 THE KING COMMANDED EBEDMELECH THE ETHIOPIAN,.... Being affected with the case of the prophet; and repenting of the leave he had given the princes to do with him as they pleased, gave orders as fo...
Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die. Ver. 10. _Then the king commanded E...
_Then the king commanded_, &c. The king, who a little while ago durst do nothing against the princes, has now his heart wonderfully and suddenly changed, and will have Jeremiah released in defiance of...
JEREMIAH CAST INTO A PIT...
Then the king commanded Ebed-melech, the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, a sufficiently large squad under his command to protect Jeremiah in case some of the princes or their...
WITH THEE: _ Heb._ in thine hand...
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...
There are several guesses why the king commandeth Ebed-melech to take THIRTY MEN for the doing of that for which three or four were sufficient. I think they judge best who think it was to guard him ag...
Jeremiah 38:10 king H4428 commanded H6680 (H8762) Ebed-Melech H5663 Ethiopian H3569 saying H559 (H8800) Take H3947
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...
_Ebed-melech the Ethiopian._ EBED-MELECH THE ETHIOPIAN A slave from the Soudan, an eunuch in the household of Zedekiah, King of Judah, is by the side of the great Jeremiah, a humble servant yet an e...
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...
Esther 5:2; Esther 8:7; Proverbs 21:1; Psalms 75:10...
Thirty men — Probably the king commanded Ebed — melech to take thirty men to guard him against any opposition....