Jeremiah 38:1
PASHUR] see on Jeremiah 20:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
PASHUR] see on Jeremiah 20:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
1-3. The removal of Jeremiah from the prison was favourable to the publication of his message. Hence the alarm of the princes.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE THAT GOETH FORTH] i.e. submits: so Jeremiah 38:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
DUNGEON] RM 'pit,'or cistern. It is conjectured that Psalms 69 may have been composed by Jeremiah on this occasion. 7-13. Jeremiah is rescued by Ebed-melech.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIRTY] possibly a copyist's error for 'three.'The two words resemble each other much more closely in Hebrew than in English. 14-28. The king again asks the prophet's advice. Result.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE THIRD ENTRY] Probably referring to some passage between the Temple and the palace.... [ Continue Reading ]
WILT THOU NOT HEARKEN UNTO ME?] RV 'Thou wilt not hearken unto me.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THE KING OF BABYLON'S PRINCES] Nebuchadnezzar was probably himself at Riblah: see Jeremiah 39:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY MOCK ME] for not surrendering sooner as they had done.... [ Continue Reading ]
The women of the harem shall join in the reproaches, saying, Thy friends have persuaded thee against thy better judgment, and then deserted thee. 24-26. Zedekiah's weakness is again conspicuous.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE WAS, etc.] RV 'And it came to pass when Jerusalem was taken'; the words thus belonging not to what precedes, but to Jeremiah 39.... [ Continue Reading ]