Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 40:2
Verse Jeremiah 40:2. The Lord thy God hath pronounced] I know that thou art a true prophet, for what thou hast predicted from thy God is come to pass.
Verse Jeremiah 40:2. The Lord thy God hath pronounced] I know that thou art a true prophet, for what thou hast predicted from thy God is come to pass.
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
JEREMIAH 40-44. The next five Chapter s continue the biography of Jeremiah, including connected events, after the capture of Jerusalem. JEREMIAH 40:1. RELEASE OF JEREMIAH. This paragraph is possibly...
THE GUARD. See note on Jeremiah 39:9. SAID. Nebuzar-adan takes all the credit to himself. Compare Jeremiah 39:11. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. EVIL. calamity. Hebrew. _ra'a._ App-44....
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN TRAGEDY BEYOND TRAGEDY Jeremiah 40:1 to Jeremiah 45:5 Chapter s 40-44 are a continuation of the narrative begun in chapter 37 which was interrupted briefly by the oracle to Ebed-me...
And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place. THE LORD THY GOD HATH PRONOUNCED THIS EVIL UPON THIS PLACE. The Babylonia...
GEDALIAH AS GOVERNOR (586 B.C.) Jeremiah 40:7 to Jeremiah 43:6 are briefly summarised in 2 Kings 25:22. The account in the book of Kings mentions merely the accomplished results; while here the proces...
וַ יִּקַּ֥ח רַב ־טַבָּחִ֖ים לְ יִרְמְיָ֑הוּ ו
CHAPTER XIII GEDALIAH Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 41:1; Jeremiah 52:1 "Then arose Ishmael ben Nethani
Chapter s forty and forty-one, which contain the prophecies of Jeremiah after the fall of Jerusalem, constitute his last messages to the chosen people. These fall into two parts-first, prophecies agai...
(a) And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place. (a) From (Jeremiah 40:2-42:7) it seems to be as a parenthesis and separate...
It is blessed to trace the Lord's providences over the Lord's people. Here was Jeremiah enjoying more freedom and happiness from the appointment of enemies, than he had from professed friends. I pray...
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...
AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD TOOK JEREMIAH,.... When he mustered his prisoners, to his great surprise he found the prophet among them, whom he took out from them, and set him free; though, before he d...
And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place. Ver. 2. _And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah._] Took him and loosed h...
_The captain of the guard said, The Lord thy God hath pronounced this evil_, &c. Although each of the Gentile or heathen nations worshipped its peculiar god or gods, yet they did not reject or deny th...
And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said unto him, The Lord, thy God, hath pronounced this evil upon this place, for the Chaldean general was evidently familiar with the prophecies concerni...
JEREMIAH SET FREE...
1-6 The captain of the guard seems to glory that he had been God's instrument to fulfil, what Jeremiah had been God's messenger to foretell. Many can see God's justice and truth with regard to others...
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Jeremiah 40:2 captain H7227 guard H2876 took H3947 (H8799) Jeremiah H3414 said H559 (H8799) LORD H3068 God...
THE DELIVERANCE OF JEREMIAH AND THE TEMPORARY RESTORATION OF JUDAH (JEREMIAH 40:1). The passage and section opens with the now familiar ‘the word which came to Jeremiah from YHWH ---' (compare and con...
THE COMMENCEMENT OF JUDAH'S RESTORATION IS THWARTED BY THE ASSASSINATION OF GEDALIAH THE GOVERNOR AND BY THE REFUSAL OF THE PEOPLE TO LISTEN TO JEREMIAH AS THEY TAKE REFUGE IN EGYPT (JEREMIAH 40:1 TO...
SECTION 2 (JEREMIAH 26:1 TO JEREMIAH 45:5 CONTINUED). As we have previously seen this Section of Jeremiah from Jeremiah 26:1 to Jeremiah 45:
CONTENTS: Jeremiah discharged. The Jews under Gedeliah as Governor. Ishmael's design against Gedeliah. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Nebuzaradan, Gedeliah, Ishmael, Johanan, Seraiah, Jezaniah, Baalis. C...
Jeremiah 40:1. _The word which came to Jeremiah bound in chains._ This word is found in Jeremiah 42:9; and the intervening history is a parenthesis of Ishmael's treason. Jeremiah was now about seventy...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 40:2 Nebuzaradan recognizes the truth of Jeremiah’s preaching about Jerusalem’s fall. As Nebuchadnezzar ordered (Jeremiah 39:11), Nebuzaradan offered...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—A purely historical chapter, of events following the city’s ruin. It records the out-gleaming of a ray of hope upon the appalling gloom which had befallen the land, in t...
EXPOSITION The first of a series of chapters (40-45.) describing Jeremiah's fortunes and ministry after the fall of Jerusalem. JEREMIAH 40:1 The liberation of Jeremiah. JEREMIAH 40:1 THE WORD THAT...
Now as we come into the fourth part of the book of Jeremiah, these are the prophecies of Jeremiah to the people after Zedekiah was carried away and the remnant of the people who stayed here in the lan...
1 Kings 9:8; 1 Kings 9:9; 2 Chronicles 7:20; Deuteronomy 29:24;...