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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 41:7

Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them. — The purpose of the new murder does not appear at first sight. The very presence of the devout mourners may have roused him to bitterness. Their recognition of Gedaliah may have seemed the act of traitors to their country. Possibly also the act may have been one of vindictive retaliation for the murder of his kinsmen (Jeremiah 52:10), or have been perpetrated for the sake of plunder.

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See also Jeremiah 41:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 41:7. _SLEW THEM_] He kept the murder of Gedaliah secret, and no doubt had a band of his assassins lodged in Mizpah; and he decoyed these fourscore men thither that he might have stren...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE PIT - the cistern, and in Jeremiah 41:9....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them_ See on Jeremiah 41:2....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SLEW THEM, AND CAST THEM INTO THE MIDST OF THE PIT— This _pit_ was the cavern or ditch which Asa cast up against the walls of Mizpah, when he rebuilt and fortified it against the attempts of Baasha; s...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him. ISHMAEL ... SLEW...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    41:7 pit. (a-38) As ch. 37.16....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PLOT AGAINST GEDALIAH AND ITS RESULTS (586 B.C.) 1-10. Ishmael murders Gedaliah and others, and carries off captives....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PIT] RV 'cistern.'...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְהִ֕י כְּ בֹואָ֖ם אֶל ־תֹּ֣וךְ הָ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XIII GEDALIAH Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 41:1; Jeremiah 52:1 "Then arose Ishmael ben Nethani

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Into. Literally, "slew them about the," &c. (Haydock) --- The pit was not full of water, but had been intended by Asa for a reservoir, (ver. 9., and 3 Kings xv. 20.; Calmet) when he built Maspha. (Wo...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here Jeremiah relates another circumstance in the nefarious conduct of Ishmael, that by flatteries he enticed simple men, who feared no evil, and while pretending kindness, slew them. The slaughter wa...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND IT WAS [SO], WHEN THEY CAME INTO THE MIDST OF THE CITY,.... Where Gedaliah's house was, to which he invited them; and as they went in, he shut up the court, as Josephus h says, and slew them, as i...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And it was [so], when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, [and cast them] into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that [were] with him. Ver. 7. _Ishm...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ISHMAEL SLAYS GEDALIAH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, still without the slightest suspicion regarding the ruse employed by Ishmael, THAT ISHMAEL, THE SON OF NETHANIAH, SLEW THEM, murdered them in...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    When he had thus enticed them into Mizpah, he and his followers slay them, and throw their dead bodies into a pit, with the assistance of those bloody men that were with him....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 41:7 came H935 (H8800) midst H8432 city H5892 Ishmael H3458 son H1121 Nethaniah H5418 killed H7819 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 15:28; 1 Kings 15:29; 1 Kings 16:10; 2 Kings 11:1; 2 Kin

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