We cannot sufficiently admire the faithfulness of the Prophet, in following up the will of the Lord. Times were dangerous, but Jeremiah considered, that there was but the more reason to be conscientious. Though a prison was before him, and into it he knew he should be sent, yet whether men would hear, or whether they would forbear, he dared be honest. Ezekiel 2:5.
CHAPTER XXXIV _This chapter contains two prophecies: the first, delivered_ _during the siege of Jerusalem, predicts to Zedekiah the taking_ _and burning of the city, with his own peaceful death and...
PEOPLE - Peoples, i. e., tribes, races, under the rule of one man....
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...
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...
THE TWENTY-SEVENTH PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH (see book comments for Jeremiah). The word. This chapter is Ch. Jeremiah 32:1, told over again more fully. NEBUCHADNEZZAR. Not that he was necessarily present...
The narrative portion of the work which we may ascribe to Baruch here recommences after a partial suspension. As Jeremiah was still at liberty (Jeremiah 34:6), his utterance must have preceded the tem...
Prophecy of the burning of the city and the captivity of Zedekiah....
THE WORD, &C.— We do not know exactly at what time this happened; but we know that it was in the 11th year of Zedekiah, and during the interval between the raising of the siege of Jerusalem by Nebucha...
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...
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem...
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...
XXXIV. (1) WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF BABYLON... — The prophecy that follows is probably a fuller statement of that in Jeremiah 32:3, and delivered shortly before it, being referred to there as the c...
הַ דָּבָ֛ר אֲשֶׁר ־הָיָ֥ה אֶֽל ־יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ...
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....
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...
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when (a) Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusale...
_Came, in the 11th year of Sedecias, before the Chaldeans returned to their siege, chap. xxxvii. 4._...
It is no wonder, nor ought it to be deemed useless, that the Prophet so often repeats the same things, for we know how great was the hardness of the people with whom he had to do. Here, then, he tells...
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...
THE WORD WHICH CAME UNTO JEREMIAH FROM THE LORD,.... This prophecy came to Jeremiah, and was delivered by him, when he was at liberty, and before his imprisonment, and was the occasion of it, as appea...
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem,...
_The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadnezzar, &c., fought against Jerusalem_ The siege was begun in the ninth year of Zedekiah, the tenth month and tenth day of the month, whi...
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, literally, "all the kingdoms of the country...
OF THE CAPTIVITY OF ZEDEKIAH...
HIS DOMINION: _ Heb._ the dominion of his hand...
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...
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 34 The captivity of Zedekiah and the city, JEREMIAH 34:1. The princes and people by solemn covenant, according to the law, dismiss their bond-servants, but the Babylonians leaving the...
Jeremiah 34:1 word H1697 Jeremiah H3414 LORD H3068 Nebuchadnezzar H5019 king H4428 Babylon H894 army H2428 kingdoms H44
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
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...
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...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 34:1 God Judges 1:1 Judah. Having declared Judah and Israel’s current sins (chs....
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,...
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 36:12; 2 Kings 25:1; Daniel 2:37; Daniel 2:38; Daniel