_JEREMIAH, BY PROMISES AND THREATENINGS, EXHORTETH TO REPENTANCE: HE IS THEREFORE APPREHENDED AND ARRAIGNED: HIS APOLOGY: HE IS ACQUITTED IN JUDGMENT BY THE EXAMPLE OF MICAH, AND BY THE CARE OF AHIKAM._ _Before Christ 609._... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE BEGINNING OF THE REIGN OF JEHOAKIM— This prophesy is prior in time to that in the preceding chapter. That was delivered in the fourth year of king Jehoiakim; and this at the beginning, or some time in the first year of his reign. See Calmet.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAND IN THE COURT, &C.— The great court, where both men and women worshipped when they brought no sacrifice; for when they did so, they were to carry it into the inner-court, called _The court of Israel._ Jeremiah frequently spoke in the temple, because of the great concourse of people in that plac... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN WILL I MAKE THIS HOUSE LIKE SHILOH— "I will forsake it, as I have forsaken Shiloh." See ch. Jeremiah 7:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PROPHETS, &C.— The prophets, as is manifest from many passages in Scripture, were an order of men among the Jews devoted to sacred literature, and qualified by their attainments in religious knowledge to advise and instruct the people, who came to consult them in cases of doubt and difficulty. T... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THE PRINCES OF JUDAH— That is, the king's counsellors or chief officers of the state, who were also members of the Sanhedrin. By the _prophets,_ mentioned in these verses, are meant the false prophets, who were extremely irritated against Jeremiah. The intelligent reader will observe a great si... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT KNOW YE FOR CERTAIN— This is Jeremiah's justification of himself. He reduces all to the proof that God had sent him; and his adversaries were able to make no reply. "If God hath sent me, you can have nothing to say against me." It is upon this that he is declared innocent, Jeremiah 26:16. _This... [ Continue Reading ]
MICAH THE MORASTHITE— The village of _Morasthus_ or _Maresa,_ was in the tribe of Judah. Micah was the author of that prophesy which we have now among the twelve minor prophets. The Jews supposed his prophesy to have been fulfilled in the utter destruction of the second temple by Titus, when Terenti... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE WAS ALSO A MAN—URIJAH— The discourse of the elders being finished, a history of those times is here added, and, as many think, by Jeremiah; hence it was plain in how great danger he was under a wicked king. Others think that this example of Urijah was produced by the enemies of Jeremiah, to co... [ Continue Reading ]
AHIKAM— _Ahikam_ was an ancient prince of Judah, who bore a considerable employment under Josiah. Compare 2 Kings 22:12. _Gedaliah_ was his son; see Exodus 25:22 who, as well as his father, had a great regard for Jeremiah. See ch. Jeremiah 39:14 Jeremiah 40:5. REFLECTIONS.—1st, They who would be fa... [ Continue Reading ]