It is difficult to say what object Baalis can have had in murdering Gedaliah. As an ally of Zedekiah Jeremiah 27:3, he may have had a spite against the family of Ahikam for opposing, as most probably they did at Jeremiah’s instigation, the league proposed Jeremiah 27. Ishmael’s motive was envy and spite at seeing a subject who had always opposed the war now invested with kingly power, in place of the royal family.
Verse Jeremiah 40:14. _BUT GEDALIAH THE SON OF AHIKAM BELIEVED THEN NOT._] The account given of this man proves him to have been a person of uncommon greatness of soul. Conscious of his own integrity...
III. AFTER THE FALL OF JERUSALEM (40-45) Chapter S 40-41 The Treachery in the Land and the Flight to Egypt _ 1. Jeremiah's choice (Jeremiah 40:1) _ 2. Gedaliah and Ishmael's deed (Jeremiah 40:7; J
GEDALIAH'S PERIL. Johanan warns Gedaliah of his danger from Ishmael, another of the newly-submitted leaders (Jeremiah 41:1), alleged to be an agent of the king of Ammon (Jeremiah 27:3). Gedaliah refus...
SLAY THEE. strike thy soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
See introd. summary to section....
_Baalis the king of the children of Ammon_ It is easier to see the motives of Ishmael than those of his instigator Baalis. The former no doubt felt aggrieved that he, although of royal birth (Jeremiah...
BAALIS, THE KING OF THE AMMONITES— The king of the Ammonites had concerted this matter with Ishmael, with a design to make the Jews, who still remained in their own country, his vassals. See chap. Jer...
1. _The plot revealed_ (Jeremiah 40:13-16) TRANSLATION (13) Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the officers of the army which was in the field came unto Gedaliah at Mizpah. (14) And they said unt...
And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not. BAALIS - ca...
Ishmael felt aggrieved that he, though of royal birth (see Jeremiah 41:1), had been set aside in favour of Gedaliah. The instigation by Baalis may have arisen through designs of conquest....
GEDALIAH AS GOVERNOR (586 B.C.) Jeremiah 40:7 to Jeremiah 43:6 are briefly summarised in 2 Kings 25:22. The account in the book of Kings mentions merely the accomplished results; while here the proces...
DOST THOU CERTAINLY KNOW THAT BAALIS... — The king of the Ammonites so named appears from Jeremiah 27:3 to have been in alliance with Zedekiah; and Ishmael, as belonging to the royal house of Judah, s...
וַ יֹּאמְר֣וּ אֵלָ֗יו הֲ יָדֹ֤עַ תֵּדַע֙ כִּ֞
CHAPTER XIII GEDALIAH Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 41:1; Jeremiah 52:1 "Then arose Ishmael ben Nethani
Chapter s forty and forty-one, which contain the prophecies of Jeremiah after the fall of Jerusalem, constitute his last messages to the chosen people. These fall into two parts-first, prophecies agai...
And said to him, Dost thou certainly know that (g) Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not. (g) For unde...
_Baalis. Queen. (Grotius) --- The Ammonites sought the entire ruin of the Jews._...
We have here the information of a conspiracy: but the accomplishment is not related in this Chapter. In the succeeding one it is. Alas! neither mercies nor judgments; the fear of death nor of hell, fi...
They therefore came and _said, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah _was suborned by the king of Ammon It may have been that the king of Ammon had hoped to be the king of Judea, or to have all that land...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 39 THROUGH 44. After this, chapter 39 and the following Chapter s give us the history of the confusion and iniquity that reigned among the remnant who were no...
AND SAID UNTO HIM, DOST THOU CERTAINLY KNOW,.... Not that they thought he did know, or that the thing was so flagrant that he must know it; but that he might be assured of the truth of it, from the in...
And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not. Ver. 14. _That...
_Johanan the son of Kareah came to Gedaliah_, &c. They had been with him before, Jeremiah 40:8, but now they come to discover to him a conspiracy formed against his life. _And said, Dost thou certainl...
GEDALIAH MADE GOVERNOR AND THREATENED BY THE JEWS...
and said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis, the king of the Ammonites, who may have harbored plans to put himself into possession of the entire country by one bold stroke, HATH SENT ISHMA...
TO SLAY THEE?: _ Heb._ to strike thee in soul?...
7-16 Jeremiah had never in his prophecies spoken of any good days for the Jews, to come immediately after the captivity; yet Providence seemed to encourage such an expectation. But how soon is this h...
DOST THOU, for dost thou not; for not is plainly understood, as the sense makes evident. Whether this _Baalis_ be a proper name of the KING OF THE AMMONITES, or, as some think, an appellative name, si...
Jeremiah 40:14 said H559 (H8799) certainly H3045 (H8800) know H3045 (H8799) Baalis H1185 king H4428 Ammonites...
GEDALIAH RECEIVES AND REJECTS A WARNING ABOUT ISHMAEL'S INTENTIONS (JEREMIAH 40:13). The loyal former resistance commanders learned of Ishmael's plottings, and came to Gedaliah and warned him of Ishma...
POLITICAL EVENTS IN THE NEW JUDAH - GEDALIAH RE-ESTABLISHES JUDAH BUT IS ASSASSINATED (JEREMIAH 40:7 TO JEREMIAH 41:18). What follows is a description of the events that followed the appointment of Ge...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah discharged. The Jews under Gedeliah as Governor. Ishmael's design against Gedeliah. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Nebuzaradan, Gedeliah, Ishmael, Johanan, Seraiah, Jezaniah, Baalis. C...
Jeremiah 40:1. _The word which came to Jeremiah bound in chains._ This word is found in Jeremiah 42:9; and the intervening history is a parenthesis of Ishmael's treason. Jeremiah was now about seventy...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 40:13 Apparently the former soldiers (vv. Jeremiah 40:7) appreciated GEDALIAH. They warned him of a plot against his...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—A purely historical chapter, of events following the city’s ruin. It records the out-gleaming of a ray of hope upon the appalling gloom which had befallen the land, in t...
EXPOSITION The first of a series of chapters (40-45.) describing Jeremiah's fortunes and ministry after the fall of Jerusalem. JEREMIAH 40:1 The liberation of Jeremiah. JEREMIAH 40:1 THE WORD THAT...
Now as we come into the fourth part of the book of Jeremiah, these are the prophecies of Jeremiah to the people after Zedekiah was carried away and the remnant of the people who stayed here in the lan...
1 Corinthians 13:5; 1 Samuel 11:1; 2 Samuel 10:1; Amos 1:13;...