saith the LORD. [is] Jehovah's oracle.
from. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and from", thus forming the Figure of speech Polysyndeton. App-6.
life. soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
he shall not spare. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:50).
Verse Jeremiah 21:7. _NEBUCHADREZZAR_] This name is spelt as above in _twenty-six_ places of this book; and in _ten_ places it is spelt _Nebuchadnezzar_, which is the common orthography. The differen...
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...
The Hebrew form of the _v_. is evidently an expansion. The LXX read "from the famine into the hand of those that seek, etc.," omitting the intermediate words. _the pestilence_ This would be a natural...
I WILL DELIVER ZEDEKIAH— See the execution of these menaces in chap. 52: and 2 Kings 25. We may just observe, that Zedekiah himself was not slain, but carried to Babylon, where he died, though his son...
2. _The answer of the prophet_ (Jeremiah 21:3-7) TRANSLATION (3) But Jeremiah said unto them, Thus shall you say to Zedekiah: Thus says the LORD God of Israel: I am about to turn back the weapons of...
And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, int...
21:7 and (a-18) Or 'that is.'...
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...
HE SHALL SMITE THEM WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD. — The words were bold words for the prophet to utter while the king was still on the throne, and urged on by his princes to defy the power of the Chaldæ...
וְ אַחֲרֵי ־כֵ֣ן נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֡ה אֶתֵּ֣ן אֶת
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...
_To them. This was verified, chap. lii., and 4 Kings xxiv._...
The Lord's answer by the Prophet is such as one might expect, most alarming and awful! Reader! how blessed is it to know the Lord, in order to a proper confidence in him. Sweet is that promise to this...
He then adds, _And afterwards, _that is, when the pestilence had in a great measure consumed them; _I will give, _or _deliver_, he says, _Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his servants, into the hand of...
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 AFTERWARDS, SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... After there should be so great a mortality among men and beasts: I WILL DELIVER ZEDEKIAH KING OF JUDAH, AND HIS SERVANTS; the king himself shall not escape; th...
_And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, int...
_Behold, I will turn back the weapons_, &c. Instead of doing execution upon your enemies, they shall hurt yourselves, and be the occasion of your own destruction. God will as visibly appear against yo...
ZEDEKIAH'S QUESTION AND ITS ANSWER...
And afterward, saith the Lord, I will deliver Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, the inhabitants in general, AND SUCH AS ARE LEFT IN THIS CITY FROM THE PESTILENCE, FROM THE SWO...
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...
AFTERWARD; after that many of the people of this city shall be destroyed, some by the enemy assaulting and skirmishing with them; others by the famine that shall be amongst them through a want of vict...
Jeremiah 21:7 afterward H310 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 deliver H5414 (H8799) Zedekiah H6667 king H4428 Judah...
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...
_He shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy._ NO MERCY IN WAR The exploits of Surrey in Scotland are thus recorded in a letter of Wolsey: “The Earl of Surrey so devastated and destroy...
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 ...
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...
2 Chronicles 36:17; 2 Chronicles 36:17; 2 Kings 25:18; 2 Kings 25:5;...