Now when all the captains of the forces (d) who [were] in the fields, [even] they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;
(d) Which were scattered abroad for fear of the Chaldeans.
The men would be the old and infirm: the women those whose husbands and protectors had perished in the wars (e. g. Jeremiah 41:10). The word children includes all the inferior members of a household....
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
THE GOVERNORSHIP OF GEDALIAH. The scattered Jewish forces which remained heard of Gedaliah's appointment as governor, and made submission to him at Mizpah. He guaranteed their security, and encouraged...
MEN. Hebrew pi. of _'enosh._ App-14. GOVERNOR. No more attempts to make. king, after Zedekiah's perjury. See Ezekiel 17:15. CHILDREN. young children. POOR. Hebrew "poverty", put by Figure of speech...
_all the captains of the forces_ the various leaders of bands among the Jews, who would keep out of the way during the presence of the Babylonian forces and until they found what was likely to be the...
Abbreviated from 2 Kings 25:23 f....
B. The Program of Gedaliah Jeremiah 40:7-12 TRANSLATION (7) When all the army officers and their men who were in the field heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam over...
Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed u...
40:7 fields, (c-12) Or 'open country,' so ver. 13....
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...
FORCES WHICH _were_ IN THE FIELDS] keeping out of the way until the Babylonian army departed, and they should have learned the nature of the new government: cp. Jeremiah 40:13....
NOW WHEN ALL THE CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES. — A new section of the history begins, ending with the murder of Gedaliah and its sequel. in Jeremiah 41:18. The commanders of the armies that had fought again...
וַ יִּשְׁמְעוּ֩ כָל ־שָׂרֵ֨י הַ חֲיָלִ֜ים אֲש
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...
_Captains, who had fled from Sedecias, and effected their escape. (Josephus, Antiquities x. 11.)_...
It appears by the appointment of one of their own people among the Jews to be Governor, that the King of Babylon meant kindness to the lower orders of the people, though he had slain their king and no...
Mention has been before made of Gedaliah. We have seen that the Prophet was once rescued from death through his kindness, for he interposed for him when almost all with one consent doomed the holy Pro...
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...
NOW WHEN ALL THE CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES WHICH [WERE] IN THE FIELDS,.... Not the captains of the king of Babylon's forces, but the captains of the king of Judah's forces; who either during the siege ha...
Now when all the captains of the forces which [were] in the fields, [even] they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committe...
_Now when all the captains of the forces heard, &c., they came to Gedaliah_ By the taking of Jerusalem the Chaldeans made a complete conquest of Judea; whereupon that part of the Jewish army which had...
Now, when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, the leaders of the Jewish army who had fled to hide themselves in remote and inaccessible places of the land, EVEN THEY AND THEIR MEN...
GEDALIAH MADE GOVERNOR AND THREATENED BY THE JEWS...
7-16 Jeremiah had never in his prophecies spoken of any good days for the Jews, to come immediately after the captivity; yet Providence seemed to encourage such an expectation. But how soon is this h...
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Jeremiah 40:7 captains H8269 armies H2428 fields H7704 men H582 heard H8085 (H8799) king H4428 Babylon H894 Gedaliah
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...
POLITICAL EVENTS IN THE NEW JUDAH - GEDALIAH RE-ESTABLISHES JUDAH BUT IS ASSASSINATED (JEREMIAH 40:7 TO JEREMIAH 41:18). What follows is a description of the events that followed the appointment of Ge...
RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF JUDAH UNDER THE GOVERNORSHIP OF GEDALIAH (JEREMIAH 40:7). Once the news got about that Gedaliah had been appointed governor, that Judah was now populated by ‘the poor of the land',...
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...
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...
2 Kings 25:22; 2 Kings 25:23; 2 Kings 25:4; Ezekiel 33:24;...