Verse Jeremiah 37:15. And smote him] Without any proof of the alleged treachery, without any form of justice.
In prison to the house of Jonathan] In Asiatic countries there is an apartment in the houses of the officers of the law, to confine all the accused that are brought before them. Jonathan was a scribe or secretary, and had a prison of this kind in his house.
THE HOUSE - Probably the official residence of the secretary of state....
JEREMIAH AND ZEDEKIAH AND THE FALL OF JERUSALEM (37-39) CHAPTER 37 _ 1. Jeremiah's warning (Jeremiah 37:1) _ 2. Jeremiah's arrest (Jeremiah 37:11) Jeremiah 37:1. To understand more fully
Jeremiah, during the interval in the siege, is leaving the city by a northern gate on private business (perhaps connected with the earlier incident of Jeremiah 32:6 ff.), when he is arrested by the of...
SMOTE. scourged. PUT HIM IN PRISON. Note Jeremiah _'_. prison experiences:. (1) put in on false charge (Jeremiah 37:11); (2) released, but confined in the court of the prison; (3) imprisoned again in...
See introd. summary to ch....
_the princes were wroth with Jeremiah_ These were not the princes who had looked upon the prophet with favour in the reign of Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 26:16; Jeremiah 36:19). Those were now no doubt exiles...
WHEREFORE THE PRINCES, &C.— _And the princes,_ &c. _FOR THEY HAD MADE THAT THE PRISON_— There is nothing extraordinary in making the dwelling-house of a great man a prison, according to either the anc...
II. THE PROPHET CONFINED Jeremiah 37:11 to Jeremiah 38:28 Jeremiah experienced a great deal of suffering at the hands of the national leaders during those last dark days before the fall of Jerusalem....
Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison. THE PRINCES ... PUT HIM IN PRISON IN TH...
1-5. The general position....
THE PRINCES... PUT HIM IN PRISON IN THE HOUSE OF JONATHAN THE SCRIBE. — The house was probably chosen as being under the direct control of one who, as scribe, exercised functions like those of A minis...
וַ יִּקְצְפ֧וּ הַ שָּׂרִ֛ים עַֽל ־יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ...
CHAPTER XII JEREMIAH'S IMPRISONMENT Jeremiah 37:11, Jeremiah 38:1, Jeremiah 39:15 "Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken."-...
This and the two following Chapter s contain the history of the siege up to the fall of the city. In the first part of this chapter Jeremiah was free. Zedekiah occupied the throne, but was disobedient...
Wherefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and beat him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the (h) prison. (h) Because it was a vile and straight...
_Prison. Literally, "lake or pit," (Haydock) such as was used to keep wine. Thus God tries his chosen friends, according to their strength!_...
Falling off to the Chaldeans, had such a thought been entertained, should have been while they were besieging Jerusalem. The thing spoke for itself, that it was both false and absurd. But, Reader! is...
Here Jeremiah pursues the same narrative, and shews how unjustly he was treated, for he found no equity at the hands of the princes any more than in the keeper of the ward. He was no doubt prepared to...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 37 AND 38. Chapter 37 gives us Zedekiah in the same state of disobedience. A show of religion is kept up, and, having a moment of respite which excites some h...
WHEREFORE THE PRINCES WERE WROTH WITH JEREMIAH,.... For attempting to depart the city, and go off to the Chaldeans, as Irijah had suggested to them, and to whom they hearkened; and perhaps would not h...
Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison. Ver. 15. _Wherefore the princes were wroth...
_Wherefore the princes were wroth_ These princes seem to have been much more hostile to the prophet than those that were in the time of Jehoiakim, (see Jeremiah 36:19,) for they proceed here merely up...
Jeremiah's Arrest and Imprisonment...
Wherefore the princes, evidently of a different type from those who had taken his part under Jehoiakim, WERE WROTH WITH JEREMIAH AND SMOTE HIM, apparently without so much as a hearing, AND PUT HIM IN...
11-21 There are times when it is the wisdom of good men to retire, to enter into their chambers, and to shut the doors, Isaiah 26:20. Jeremiah was seized as a deserter, and committed to prison. But i...
These princes seem more fierce against the prophet than those that were in the time of Jehoiakim, for they proceed here upon the captain's information, cause the prophet to be beaten, and send him to...
Jeremiah 37:15 princes H8269 angry H7107 (H8799) Jeremiah H3414 struck H5221 (H8689) put H5414 (H8804) prison...
WHEN SEEKING TO TAKE POSSESSION OF HIS LAND IN BENJAMIN DURING THE LULL IN THE SIEGE JEREMIAH IS FALSELY ACCUSED OF TREACHERY AND THROWN INTO PRISON (JEREMIAH 37:11). Jeremiah's family appears to have...
THE DISOBEDIENCE OF JUDAH AND ITS KING IS HIGHLIGHTED BY THEIR TREATMENT OF THE PROPHET OF YHWH (JEREMIAH 37:1 TO JEREMIAH 38:28). These events once again took place during the reign of Zedekiah, the...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's imprisonment in the days of Zedekiah. CHARACTERS: Zedekiah, Coniah, Nebuchadnezzar, Jeremiah, Jehucal, Zephaniah, Jonathan, Irijah. CONCLUSION: It is no new thing for those who h...
Jeremiah 37:5. _Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt._ The Chaldeans were afraid of them, and raised the siege. But this joy to Jerusalem was of short continuance; the Chaldeans returned after t...
_And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem._ JEREMIAH PERSECUTED After the captivity and death of Jehoiakim, his brother Zedekiah, another son of Josiah, s...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 37:15 ENRAGED. At Jeremiah’s teaching and denial (Jeremiah 36:29)....
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. In the tenth and eleventh year of Zedekiah. Later than chap. 21, for that embassy was sent when Nebuchadnezzar was marching against Jerusal...
EXPOSITION Nothing worthy of relation appears to have happened to Jeremiah till the latter period of the reign of Zedekiah. The first two verses of this chapter form the transition. The embassy to Je...
Now we come to the third part of the book of Jeremiah and this covers the period of Zedekiah the king. These particular prophecies, thirty-seven through thirty-nine, cover from the time that Zedekiah...
2 Chronicles 16:10; 2 Chronicles 18:26; 2 Corinthians 11:23; Acts 12:4;...