Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 37:17
Verse Jeremiah 37:17. Is there any word from the Lord?] Is there any farther revelation?
There is: - thou shalt be delivered] What bold faithfulness! And to a king, in whose hands his life now lay.
Verse Jeremiah 37:17. Is there any word from the Lord?] Is there any farther revelation?
There is: - thou shalt be delivered] What bold faithfulness! And to a king, in whose hands his life now lay.
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...
IS THERE... THERE IS = Does there exist....... There does exist. Hebrew. _yesh_... _yesh_. See notes on Proverbs 8:21; Proverbs 18:24. and Luke 7:25....
See introd. summary to ch....
_asked him secretly_ This shews us that the prophet was as unpopular as ever. It also points to Zedekiah's moral weakness, as dreading the interference of the princes in the matter. Cp. Jeremiah 38:5;...
B. Summoned by the King Jeremiah 37:16-21 TRANSLATION (16) When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon vaults and had remained there several days, (17) Zedekiah the king sent and had him brought; and the...
Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delive...
1-5. The general position....
SECRETLY] dreading in his weakness the interference of the princes....
THEN ZEDEKIAH THE KING SENT, AND TOOK HIM OUT... — The king seems to have been at once better than his counsellors, and afraid of them. He regrets the severity of the prophet’s treatment, and hopes th...
וַ יִּשְׁלַח֩ הַ מֶּ֨לֶךְ צִדְקִיָּ֜הוּ וַ יּ
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...
We have here a most interesting relation, in which Jeremiah appears most delightful indeed. Neither stripes, nor prisons, can make the faithful servants of the Lord less faithful: yea the exercises of...
From these words we learn, that King Zedekiah, though he had not obeyed good and wise counsels, nor even God and his truth, was not yet one of the worst, for of his own self he called the Prophet to h...
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...
THEN ZEDEKIAH THE KING SENT AND TOOK HIM OUT,.... After Jeremiah had been in prison for some time; and the Chaldean army being returned, and having renewed their siege, the king is frightened; and kno...
Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there [any] word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be deliv...
_Then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out_ When the vain hopes with which they had fed themselves, and on the ground of which they had re-enslaved their servants, were all vanished away, then they...
Jeremiah's Arrest and Imprisonment...
then Zedekiah, the king, sent and took him out; and the king asked him secretly in his house, probably because he was ashamed to be seen by his courtiers, AND SAID, IS THERE ANY WORD FROM THE LORD? an...
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...
IS THERE ANY WORD FROM THE LORD? that is, Hath God revealed any thing to thee, concerning what will be the issue of the return of the Chaldean army to the siege of the city? What needed Zedekiah to ha...
Jeremiah 37:17 Zedekiah H6667 king H4428 sent H7971 (H8799) took H3947 (H8799) king H4428 asked H7592 ...
AFTER HAVING SPENT SOME TIME IN PRISON JEREMIAH WAS SUMMONED TO APPEAR BEFORE KING ZEDEKIAH WHO SECRETLY SOUGHT HIS COUNSEL, GIVING JEREMIAH THE OPPORTUNITY TO APPEAL AGAINST HIS SITUATION. AS A RESUL...
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...
_Is there any word from the Lord?_ .. . There is. IS THERE ANY WORD FROM THE LORD? The man who asked this momentous question belonged to the class of solemn triflers. He came with the right question...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 37:17 Desperate for good news (Jeremiah 21:1), ZEDEKIAH sends for...
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...
1 Kings 14:1; 1 Kings 22:16; 2 Kings 3:11; Ezekiel 12:12; Ezek
Is there — Hath God revealed any thing to thee, concerning the issue of the return of the Chaldean army....