Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 38:5
All real power was in their hands, and as they affirmed that Jeremiah’s death was a matter of necessity, the king did not dare refuse it to them.
All real power was in their hands, and as they affirmed that Jeremiah’s death was a matter of necessity, the king did not dare refuse it to them.
Verse Jeremiah 38:5. _HE_ IS _IN YOUR HAND_] Ye have power to do as you please; I must act by your counsel. Poor weak prince! you respect the prophet, you fear the cabal, and you sacrifice an innocent...
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...
_the king is not he, etc_.] The LXX, perhaps rightly, make this clause a comment of the narrator ("For the king was not able … against them")....
FOR THE KING IS NOT HE, &C.— _Nor is it proper for the king to deny you any thing._ Houbigant. Nothing can give a higher idea of the weakness and pusillanimity of Zedekiah than this passage....
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...
Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you. THE KING IS NOT HE THAT CAN DO ANYTHING AGAINST YOU. Zedekiah was a weak prince, a...
1-3. The removal of Jeremiah from the prison was favourable to the publication of his message. Hence the alarm of the princes....
וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ הַ מֶּ֣לֶךְ צִדְקִיָּ֔הוּ הִנֵּה...
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...
Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he [is] in your hand: for the king [is] not [he that] can do [any] (d) thing against you. (d) In which he grievously offended in that not only would he not hear t...
_Lawful. This is a compliment, or Sedecias complains indirectly that they had only left him the name of king. He grieved at the treatment of the prophet. (Calmet)_...
What an awful character was Zedekiah! Surely he had strong convictions of the truth, but like another Felix, though he trembled under the word, yet he consents to execute the preacher. Acts 24:25....
Zedekiah doubtless knew that wrong was done to the holy Prophet; for though he wished him to remain as he was, yet he knew that the Prophet had not threatened the people from ill-will or a hostile min...
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 ZEDEKIAH THE KING SAID, BEHOLD, HE [IS] IN YOUR HAND,.... In your power, to do with him as you please. This is either a grant of the king, allowing them to do as they thought fit; or a declaratio...
Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he [is] in your hand: for the king [is] not [he that] can do [any] thing against you. Ver. 5. _Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand._] _O nihil...
_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...
Then Zedekiah, the king, weakly yielding to the demand of his counselors, especially since he seems to have harbored a secret grudge against the prophet on his own account, SAID, BEHOLD, HE IS IN YOUR...
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...
HE IS IN YOUR HAND; that is, in your power, either by the established law against false prophets, or else I yield up my power to you, I surrender him into your hands. But neither of these seemeth very...
Jeremiah 38:5 Zedekiah H6667 king H4428 said H559 (H8799) hand H3027 king H4428 can H3201 (H8799) nothing...
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...
_For the king is not he that can do anything against you._ ZEDEKIAH WEAKENED AND RUINED THROUGH FEAR OF MAN Zedekiah was one of those unfortunate characters, frequent in history, like our own Charles...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 38:5 Zedekiah gives Jeremiah to his opponents, but God has promised to protect his life (Jeremiah 1:17)....
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...
1 Samuel 15:24; 1 Samuel 29:9; 2 Samuel 19:22; 2 Samuel 3:39; Jo
For the king — I see I am as it were no king. I can do nothing against you, you will do what you please....