_JEREMIAH SENDETH A LETTER TO THE CAPTIVES IN BABYLON, TO BE QUIET THERE, AND NOT TO BELIEVE THE DREAMS OF THEIR PROPHETS, AND THAT THEY SHALL RETURN WITH GRACE AFTER SEVENTY YEARS. HE FORETELLETH THE DESTRUCTION OF THE REST FOR THEIR DISOBEDIENCE: HE SHEWETH THE FEARFUL END OF AHAB AND ZEDEKIAH, TW... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THESE ARE THE WORDS— Neither the year nor the cause of this deputation are precisely known; but it is thought to have been at the beginning of Zedekiah's reign. By the _residue of elders_ some understand the remnant of the members of the sanhedrin, carried away captive in the third year of the r... [ Continue Reading ]
YE SHALL GO AND PRAY UNTO ME— _Ye shall pray unto me more and more._... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL GATHER YOU FROM ALL THE NATIONS, &C.— Though this prophesy has its primary completion in the restoration of the Jews under Cyrus; yet, like many others of the same kind, it can have its full completion only in that general restoration of the Jews so frequently spoken of.... [ Continue Reading ]
AHAB—AND—ZEDEKIAH— Two false prophets, who seduced the Jews at Babylon. The rabbies, followed by many interpreters, believe that there were the two persons who attempted to seduce Susanna. See Jeremiah 29:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
ROASTED IN THE FIRE— This horrid punishment was frequent in the East, especially among the Chaldeans, as appears from Daniel 3:6 and Amos 2:1 and was often practised in the persecution of the Christians in Dioclesian's time. Under Antiochus Epiphanes, the seven brethren were tried by this torture. S... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD HATH MADE THEE PRIEST— Shemaiah directs the words of his letter to Zephaniah, as being סגן _segan,_ or next in order to the high priest; and tells him that God had appointed him to supply the place of the high priest, who was probably absent at that time. His name was either Azariah or Sera... [ Continue Reading ]