What does Jeremiah 37:9 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves,b saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart."
Jeremiah’s answer here is even more unfavorable than that which is given in Jeremiah 21:4. So hopeless is resistance that the disabled men among the Chaldaeans would alone suffice to capture the city...
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 these Chap...
JEREMIAH 37, 38. FORTUNES OF JEREMIAH DURING THE SIEGE (588- 586). JEREMIAH 37:1. Zedekiah, made vassal-king in place of his nephew, Jehoiachin (in 597) sends Jehucal (Jeremiah 38:1) and Zephaniah (J...
YOURSELVES. your own souls. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
B. Jeremiah's Response Jeremiah 37:6-10 TRANSLATION (6) Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, saying, (7) Thus says the LORD God of Israel: Thus shall you say unto the king of Ju...
Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart. DECEIVE NOT YOURSELVES - Hebrew, 'your souls.'...
37:9 yourselves, (a-6) Lit. 'your souls.'...
1-5. The general position....
DECEIVE NOT YOURSELVES... — Literally, _Deceive not your souls._ The words indicate that the king and his counsellors had buoyed themselves up with expectations of deliverance. The chariots and horses...
כֹּ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה אַל ־תַּשִּׁ֤אוּ נַפְשֹֽׁתֵיכֶם֙ לֵ אמֹ֔ר הָלֹ֛ךְ יֵלְכ֥וּ מֵ עָלֵ֖ינוּ הַ כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים
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." Jeremiah...
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...
_Tent. So easy it is for God to destroy by few as well as by many! (Haydock)_...
Who but must admire the Prophet upon this occasion. Oh! for a portion of the same Almighty Spirit, to be imparted to all that minister in holy things, and especially in a time of prevailing corruption...
The Prophet confirms the former verse, and it was indeed necessary that this should be added, for though Zedekiah might not have divested himself of all anxiety and fear, he must yet have been moved b...
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...
THUS SAITH THE LORD, DECEIVE NOT YOURSELVES,.... Or, "your souls"; with a false opinion, a vain persuasion and belief of the departure of the Chaldeans never to return; which they would have confirmed...
Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart. Ver. 9. _Deceive not yourselves._] As far too many do, _qui praesumendo sper...
_Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return_ They shall be discomfited by the Chaldeans, and forced to retreat without affording you any assistance: see 2 Kings 24:7. _And the Chald...
A PROPHECY CONCERNING THE OUTCOME OF THE SIEGE...
SELVES: _ Heb._ souls...
1-10 Numbers witness the fatal effects of other men's sins, yet heedlessly step into their places, and follow the same destructive course. When in distress, we ought to desire the prayers of ministers...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Jeremiah 37:9 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 deceive H5377 (H8686) yourselves H5315 saying H559 (H8800) Chaldeans H3778 surely H1980 (H8800) depart H3212 (H8799) depart H3212 (H8799) Deceive - Obadiah...
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...
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...
_Thus saith the Lord, Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart._ THE PUNISHMENT OF EVIL The great teaching of the text is that we must not...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 37:5 EGYPT marched against Babylon c. 588 B.C., drawing the Babylonians away from JERUSALEM. But God’s WORD for Zedekiah is that Babylon will COME BACK. Believing anything el...
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...
2 Thessalonians 2:3; Ephesians 5:6; Galatians 6:3; Galatians 6:7; James 1:22; Matthew 24:4; Matthew 24:5; Obadiah 1:3...