Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 41:8
Treasures - Hidden stores; which would be of great value to Ishmael in his retreat back to Baalis.
Treasures - Hidden stores; which would be of great value to Ishmael in his retreat back to Baalis.
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
ISHMAEL'S DEEDS AND FLIGHT. Eighty pilgrims from N. Israel to Jerusalem, mourning its fall, and carrying offerings (Jeremiah 17:26), were met by Ishmael and enticed into Mizpah. There he killed them a...
TREASURES. hidden [treasures, or stores]....
Jeremiah 41:4-18. Ishmael commits further massacres and carries off captives The section may be summarized as follows. (i) Jeremiah 41:4. The following day eighty pilgrims arrive. Ishmael goes weepi...
_we have stores hidden_ In the East it is to this day a common custom to use "wells or cisterns for grain. In them the farmers store their crops of all kinds after the grain is threshed and winnowed....
WE HAVE TREASURES IN THE FIELD— Dr. Shaw tells us that in Barbary, when the grain is winnowed, they lodge it in _mattamores_ or _subterraneous repositories;_ two or three hundred of which are sometime...
3. _The massacre of the pilgrims_ (Jeremiah 41:4-9) TRANSLATION (4) And it came to pass on the day after the murder of Gedaliah, while no man yet knew of it, (5) eighty men from Shechem, Shiloh and S...
But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among th...
PLOT AGAINST GEDALIAH AND ITS RESULTS (586 B.C.) 1-10. Ishmael murders Gedaliah and others, and carries off captives....
TREASURES] RV 'stores hidden.'Dry cisterns, covered with a deep layer of earth, are commonly used for this purpose in the East....
BUT TEN MEN WERE FOUND AMONG THEM. — The stores which formed the purchase-money by which the ten saved their lives represented probably the produce of the previous year, which, after the manner of the...
וַ עֲשָׂרָ֨ה אֲנָשִׁ֜ים נִמְצְאוּ ־בָ֗ם וַ יּ
CHAPTER XIII GEDALIAH Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 41:1; Jeremiah 52:1 "Then arose Ishmael ben Nethani
Johanan's story proved to be true, and by the basest treachery Ishmael, with a handful of men, murdered Gedaliah and a number of others, and carried away the rest captive, intending to take them to th...
_Field. It was usual to cover them up carefully. (Chardin.) --- Avarice sometimes will set bounds to cruelty, when nothing else will. (Worthington)_...
Was there ever a monster of iniquity further gone in the lust of human blood / than this Ishmael? The Prophet doth not fail to tell us that he was of the seed royal! Oh! how disgraceful, had he been o...
We here see that the barbarity of Ishmael was connected with avarice, he was indeed inflamed with ferocious madness when he slew simple and innocent men; but when the hope of gain was presented to him...
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...
BUT TEN MEN WERE FOUND AMONG THEM, THAT SAID UNTO ISHMAEL, SLAY US NOT,.... They begged for their lives, using what follows as an argument to prevail upon him: FOR WE HAVE TREASURES IN THE FIELD, OF...
But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among the...
_And Ishmael went forth to meet them, weeping all along as he went_ As if he sympathized with them, and bewailed, as they did, the desolations of Jerusalem. He appears to have been a complete hypocrit...
But ten men were found among them, the eighty who fell into Ishmael's trap, THAT SAID UNTO ISHMAEL, SLAY US NOT, FOR WE HAVE TREASURES IN THE FIELD, OF WHEAT, AND OF BARLEY, AND OF OIL, AND OF HONEY,...
ISHMAEL SLAYS GEDALIAH...
1-10 Those who hate the worshippers of God, often put on the appearance of piety, that they may the easier hurt them. As death often meets men where they least expect it, we should continually search...
He slew seventy of them, but ten of them pleading for their lives, urged that they had estates in the country, both of corn, oil, and honey. His covetousness prevailed over his cruelty, he spared thei...
Jeremiah 41:8 ten H6235 men H582 found H4672 (H8738) said H559 (H8799) Ishmael H3458 kill H4191 ...
ISHMAEL CONTINUES HIS BLOODTHIRSTY SLAUGHTER AND SEEKS TO ESCAPE TO AMMON (JEREMIAH 41:4). Having carried out his bloodbath Ishmael now learned of a party of pilgrims who were approaching Mizpah, comi...
CONTENTS: Gedeliah slain, and many Jewish captives released by Johanan. CHARACTERS: Ishmael, Gedeliah, Asa, Nebuzaraden, Johanan. CONCLUSION: God sometimes permits bloody work to be done for the com...
Jeremiah 41:1. _In the seventh month,_ two months after the city had been taken, and the temple burned. Ishmael and his ten companions, who had held high commissions under Zedekiah, were feasted by th...
_So he forbare, and slew them not among their, brethren._ SIN HINDERED BY SIN Ishmael would have killed these men but for his greed of the wealth they had. It is satisfactory to think he never gaine...
_Then arose Ishmael._ DEVILS INCARNATE 1. If ever there was such a one, this Ishmael was of whom these verses tell. His atrocities remind us of the Indian Mutiny, its leader, and the well at Cawnpor...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—Only three months after Jerusalem was captured by the Chaldeans: “in the _seventh month_” (Jeremiah 41:1, comp. chap. Jeremiah 32:2) See notes...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 41:1 Assassination of Gedaliah and other Jews. JEREMIAH 41:1 IN THE SEVENTH MONTH; _i.e._ two months after the destruction of Jerusalem and the appointment of Gedaliah. It seems...
Tonight let's turn to Jeremiah chapter 41 as we continue our study through the Bible. Now, these are prophecies that Jeremiah made to the people after Nebuchadnezzar had come and carried away king Zed...
Job 2:4; Mark 8:36; Mark 8:37; Matthew 16:26; Matthew 6:25;...
He forebare — His covetousness prevailed over his cruelty....