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John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 34:4

Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah king of Judah,.... Which, though a king, he ought to hearken to; and, besides, what follows was for comfort, being a mitigation of his sentence, and containing in it mercy, as well as judgment:

thus saith the Lord of thee, thou shalt not die by the sword: of the king of Babylon; or a violent death; and therefore fear not to deliver up thyself and city into his hands; which he might be twelfth to do, fearing he would put him to death immediately.

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See also Jeremiah 34:4 in other biblical comments:

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 34:1-7 Jeremiah Warns Zedekiah The besieging army was before the walls of Jerusalem when the prophet is commanded to go to the king and tell him that the city will soon be burned. He announce...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FATE OF JERUSALEM AND OF ZEDEKIAH. In the course of the siege (588- 6), Jeremiah is sent to Zedekiah to tell him that the city will be taken and destroyed, that he will be brought before Nebuchadr...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Prophecy of the burning of the city and the captivity of Zedekiah....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Du. challenges the statement in these _vv_. as not in consonance with the troublous ending of Zedekiah's life in exile. If the text be sound, "in peace" can only mean a natural death, as opposed to on...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    I. AN INCIDENT DURING THE FINAL SIEGE OF JERUSALEM Jeremiah 34:1-22 Chapter 34 contains two messages delivered during the final siege of Jerusalem. The first of these messages is directed to king Zede...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword: THOU SHALT NOT DIE BY THE SWORD, BUT ... IN PEACE - mitigation of Zedekiah's...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH'S EIGHTEENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF ZEDEKIAH). THE FATE OF ZEDEKIAH. THE TREATMENT OF HEBREW SLAVES Early in the campaign of Nebuchadnezzar, whose scheme of conquest included all the region as fa...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THOU SHALT NOT DIE BY THE SWORD. — The tone is one of comparative mildness, the motive apparently being the wish to persuade the king to abandon his useless resistance, and to court the favour of the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַ֚ךְ שְׁמַ֣ע דְּבַר ־יְהוָ֔ה צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּ מֶ֣לֶךְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XI A BROKEN COVENANT Jeremiah 21:1, Jeremiah 34:1, Jeremiah 37:1 "All the princes and peoplechanged their minds and reduced to bondage again all the slaves whom they had set free....

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

    Chapter s thirty-four and thirty-five contain prophecies of the siege. The armies of Nebuchadnezzar were round about Jerusalem, and Jehovah declared to Zedekiah that the king of Babylon would be succe...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    While the Prophet used faithfulness, he forgot not exhortation. It is the duty of ministers to admonish as well as reprove. And never surely was there a servant of the Lord more tender, in his persuas...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here Jeremiah adds some comfort, even that Zedekiah himself would not be slain by the sword, but that he would die in his bed, and, as they commonly say, yield to his fate. It was indeed some mitigati...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    On the occasion of renewed iniquity the prophet announces the certain ruin of the people. Nevertheless Zedekiah, though carried captive to Babylon, should die there in peace. [1] In the succeeding Cha...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword: Ver. 4. _Yet hear the word of the Lord._] A word of comfort. The Lord is good to...

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

    _Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and thou shalt not escape_, &c. This prophecy, which threatened the king in particular, as well as the city and nation in general,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Yet hear the word of the Lord, who was ever ready to show mercy even in the midst of His punishments, O ZEDEKIAH, KING OF JUDAH, THUS SAITH THE LORD OF THEE, THOU SHALT NOT DIE BY THE SWORD, not be su...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    OF THE CAPTIVITY OF ZEDEKIAH...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-7 Zedekiah is told that the city shall be taken, and that he shall die a captive, but he shall die a natural death. It is better to live and die penitent in a prison, than to live and die impenitent...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 34:4 hear H8085 (H8798) word H1697 LORD H3068 Zedekiah H6667 king H4428 Judah H3063 says H559 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SUBSECTION 3 PART 1. JERUSALEM IS SURROUNDED AND JEREMIAH DECLARES THAT THERE IS NO POINT IN HOLDING OUT BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS ABOUT TO BE DESTROYED AND ZEDEKIAH WILL BE CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON TO MEET...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message to Zedekiah concerning the coming captivity. Zedekiah's ineffectual decree. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Zedekiah. CONCLUSION: God's compassion toward us should engag...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 34:2. _Go and speak to Zedekiah._ This revelation was delivered in the tenth year of his reign, and would have saved the land, when all hopes of safety were fled. Jeremiah 34:4. _Thou shalt n...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 34:1 God Judges 1:1 Judah. Having declared Judah and Israel’s current sins (chs....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 34:3 Zedekiah will lose the battle and his freedom. He will go to Babylon with many of his people (Jeremiah 21:7)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES:—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Section I., Jeremiah 34:1, is in subject connected with chap. Jeremiah 32:1. These verses, however, seem slightly to antedate that chapter,...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION This chapter must be taken in connection with Jeremiah 35:1. The whole section consists of three passages, introduced with a superscription in the same form, but otherwise unrelated. It ser...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now we come to a chronologically new set of prophecies, and this is one that Zedekiah threw him in jail for back in the thirty-first chapter, thirty-second chapter. The word which came unto Jeremiah f...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Jeremiah 38:17; Jeremiah 38:20...

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