Jeremiah 23:22

23:22 But if they had stood in my inner circle, ¹ 

they would have proclaimed my message to my people.

They would have caused my people to turn from their wicked ways

and stop doing the evil things they are doing.

Jeremiah 34:10

34:10 All the people and their leaders had agreed to this. They had agreed to free their male and female slaves and not keep them enslaved any longer. They originally complied with the covenant and freed them. ² 

Jeremiah 26:7

26:7 The priests, the prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah say these things in the Lord’s temple.

Jeremiah 26:10

26:10 However, some of the officials ³  of Judah heard about what was happening ⁴  and they rushed up to the Lord’s temple from the royal palace. They set up court ⁵  at the entrance of the New Gate of the Lord’s temple. ⁶ 

Jeremiah 37:5

37:5 At that time the Babylonian forces ⁷  had temporarily given up their siege against Jerusalem. ⁸  They had had it under siege, but withdrew when they heard that the army of Pharaoh had set out from Egypt. ⁹ )

Jeremiah 6:10

6:10 I answered, ¹⁰ 

“Who would listen

if I spoke to them and warned them? ¹¹ 

Their ears are so closed ¹² 

that they cannot hear!

Indeed, ¹³  what the Lord says is offensive to them.

They do not like it at all. ¹⁴ 

Jeremiah 40:7

A Small Judean Province is Established at Mizpah

40:7 Now some of the officers of the Judean army and their troops had been hiding in the countryside. They heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam to govern ¹⁵  the country. They also heard that he had been put in charge over the men, women, and children from the poorer classes of the land who had not been carried off into exile in Babylon. ¹⁶ 

[23:22]  ¹ tn Or “had been my confidant.” See the note on v. 18.

[34:10]  ² tn Heb “And they complied, [that is] all the leaders and all the people who entered into the covenant that they would each let his male slave and his female slave go free so as not to hold them in bondage any longer; they complied and they let [them] go.” The verb “they complied” (Heb “they hearkened”) is repeated at the end after the lengthy description of the subject. This is characteristic of Hebrew style. The translation has resolved the complex sentence by making the relative clauses modifying the subject independent sentences describing the situational background before mentioning the main focus, “they had complied and let them go.”

[26:10]  ³ sn These officials of Judah were officials from the royal court. They may have included some of the officials mentioned in Jer 36:12-25. They would have been concerned about any possible “illegal” proceedings going on in the temple.

[26:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “these things.”

[26:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “they sat” or “they took their seats.” However, the context is one of judicial trial.

[26:10]  ⁶ tn The translation follows many Hebrew mss and ancient versions in reading the word “house” (= temple) here. The majority of Hebrew mss do not have this word. It is, however, implicit in the construction “the New Gate of the Lord.”

[37:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “the Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for the rendering “Babylonian.” The word “forces” is supplied in the translation here for the sake of clarity.

[37:5]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[37:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “And the army of Pharaoh had set out from Egypt and the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard a report about them and they went up from besieging them.” The sentence has been restructured and reworded to give greater emphasis to the most pertinent fact, i.e., that the siege had been temporarily lifted. The word “temporarily” is not in the text but is implicit from the rest of the context. It is supplied in the translation here to better show that the information in vv. 4-5 is all parenthetical, providing a background for the oracle that will follow. For the meaning “given up their siege against” (Heb “had taken themselves away from against”) see BDB 749 s.v. עָלָה Niph.1.c(2); 759 s.v. עַל IV.2.b.

[6:10]  ⁵ tn These words are not in the text but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[6:10]  ⁶ tn Or “To whom shall I speak? To whom shall I give warning? Who will listen?” Heb “Unto whom shall I speak and give warning that they may listen?”

[6:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “are uncircumcised.”

[6:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “Behold!”

[6:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “They do not take pleasure in it.”

[40:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “set him over/ made him overseer over.” See BDB 823-24 s.v. פָּקִיד Hiph.1 and compare usage in Gen 39:4-5.

[40:7]  ⁷ sn Compare Jer 39:10.