Jeremiah 25:1-3
fourth <07243> [A.M. 3398. B.C. 606. in the.]
first <07224> [the first.]
Nebuchadnezzar was associated with his father Nabopollasar two years before the death of the latter; and from this time the Jewish computation of Nebuchadnezzar's reign begins; that is, from the end of the third year of Jehoiakim; and therefore, according to them, the fourth year of Jehoiakim was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar. But the Babylonians date the commencement of his reign two years later, that is, on the death of his father; which computation is followed by Daniel, who wrote in Chaldee.
twenty-three ..... thirteenth <07969> [thirteenth.]
again <07925> [rising.]
Jeremiah 26:1-24
[A.M. 3394. B.C. 610.]
stand <05975> [Stand.]
courtyard <02691> [court.]
This was the great outer court, where the people assembled for the purpose of religious worship on ordinary occasions, when they brought no sacrifices; but when they offered a sacrifice, they were to bring it into the inner court, or that of the priests.
word <01697> [all the words.]
single <01639> [diminish.]
attention <08085> [so.]
forgo <05162> [that I.]
[See on ch.]
obey <08085> [If.]
<05414> [which.]
servants <05650> [my.]
must .............. sent <07971> [whom. See on ch.]
do ............. make <05414> [will I. See on ch.]
curses <07045> [a curse.]
priests <03548> [the priests.]
prophesy <05012> [Why.]
people <05971> [And all.]
claim ................... temple <08034 01004> [in the.]
officials <08269> [the princes.]
entrance <06607> [in the entry. or, at the door. the new.]
said <0559> [saying.]
man ...... die <0376 04941 04194> [This man is worthy to die. Heb. The judgment of death is for this man. for he.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
correct <03190> [amend. See on ch.]
forgo <05162> [repent.]
power <03027> [As for.]
deem fair ... proper <02896 03477 05869> [as seemeth good and meet unto you. Heb. as it is good and right in your eyes.]
<05414> [ye shall.]
truth <0571> [for of. See on ver.]
Then <06965> [Then rose.]
Micah <04320> [Micah.]
Zion <06726> [Zion.]
Josephus relates that Titus, after he had taken Jerusalem, ordered his soldiers to demolish it, except three of the largest and most beautiful towers, and the western wall of the city; all the rest was levelled, so that they who had never before seen it, could scarcely persuade themselves it had been inhabited. The Jewish writers also inform us, that Turnus Rufus, whom Titus had left in command, ploughed up the very foundations of the temple. When Dr. Richardson visited this sacred spot in 1818, he found one part of Mount Zion supporting a crop of barley, and another undergoing the labour of the plough: the soil turned up consisted of stone and lime mixed with earth, such as is usually met with in foundations of ruined cities. It is nearly a mile in circumference; is highest on the west side, and, towards the east, falls down in broad terraces on the upper part of the mountain as it slopes down toward the brook Kidron.
[See on]
Jerusalem <03389> [Jerusalem. See on ch.]
mount <02022> [the mountain.]
reverence <03373> [did he.]
Lord ... seek ... Lord's ...... Lord <03068 02470> [besought the Lord. Heb. besought the face of the Lord. and the Lord. See on ver.]
we <0587> [Thus.]
Kiriath Jearim <07157> [Kirjath-jearim.]
king .............. king sought <04428 01245> [the king sought.]
fear <03372> [he was.]
<0582> [men.]
Achbor <05907> [Achbor.]
executed <05221> [who.]
thrown <07993> [and cast.]
common people <05971 01121> [common people. Heb. sons of the people.]
Ahikam <0296> [Ahikam.]
<05414> [that.]
Jeremiah 35:1--36:32
spoke <01697> [A.M. 3397. B.C. 607. The word.]
This discourse was probably delivered in the fourth year of Jehoiakim's reign, when the king of Babylon made war against him.
when <03117> [in the.]
temple <01004> [the house.]
one <0259> [into one.]
room .............. room ............... room <03957> [into the chamber.]
one <0376> [a man.]
temple officers <08269> [the princes.]
doorkeepers <08104> [the keeper.]
doorkeepers <05592> [door. Heb. threshold, or vessel.]
Have <08354> [Drink.]
Jonadab <03122> [Jonadab.]
drink ....................... drink <08354> [Ye shall.]
Jonadab, a man of fervent zeal for the pure worship of God, and who lived about three hundred years before this time, (2 Ki 10:15, 16, etc.) had probably practised these rules himself; and having trained up his children to habits of abstemiousness, he enjoined them and their posterity to adhere to them. In these regulations he seems to have had no religious, but merely a prudential view, as is intimated in the reason annexed to them "that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers." And this would be the natural consequence of observing these rules; for their temperate mode of living would very much contribute to preserve health and prolong life; and they would avoid giving umbrage, or exciting the jealousy or envy of the Jews, who might have been provoked, by their engaging and succeeding in the principal business in which they themselves were engaged, agriculture and vine-dressing to expel them their country; by which they would have been deprived of the religious advantages they enjoyed. In 1 Ch 2:55, they are termed scribes, which intimates that they were engaged in some kind of literary employments.
[all.]
[that ye.]
time <03117> [all.]
Nebuchadnezzar <05019> [when.]
get up ... go to <0935> [Come.]
learn <03947> [Will.]
orders <01697> [words.]
over and over again <07925> [rising.]
obeyed ..................... obeyed <08085> [but ye.]
sent ....................................................... gave <07971 05414> [I have.]
<07725> [Return.]
live in <03427> [ye shall dwell.]
pay <05186> [ye have.]
<0559> [Therefore.]
God having, by the conduct of the Rechabites, convicted the Jews of ingratitude and rebellion, He now proceeds to pass sentence against them.
bring <0935> [Behold.]
threatened ............ spoke <01696> [because.]
obeyed <08085> [Because.]
Jonadab <03122> [Jonadab, etc. Heb. There shall not a man be cut off from]
Jonadab the son of Rechab to stand, etc.
serve <05975> [stand.]
scroll <04039> [a roll.]
Write <03789> [write.]
Israel <03478> [against Israel.]
nations <01471> [against all.]
since .......... reign ..... now <03117> [from the days.]
people <01004> [may be.]
hear <08085> [hear.]
<07725> [they may.]
forgive <05545> [that I.]
Baruch ................... Baruch <01263> [Baruch.]
wrote <03789> [wrote.]
Baruch is supposed to have been a disciple of Jeremiah; and being a ready scribe, he was employed by the prophet as his amanuensis.
scroll <04039> [upon.]
Read <07121> [and read.]
told <01697> [the words.]
fast <06685> [upon.]
then <05307> [It may.]
then .... ask .... for mercy <08467 05307> [they will present their supplication. Heb. their supplication shall fall. and will.]
great <01419> [for.]
So <06213> [did.]
Lord ...... scroll ....... Lord <05612 03068> [in the.]
fifth <02549> [A.M. 3398. B.C. 606. in the fifth.]
observe <07121> [they.]
came ........................... fifth <02549 0935> [came.]
read <07121> [Then.]
entrance of the room <03957> [in the chamber.]
Gemariah <01587> [Gemariah.]
Shaphan <08227> [Shaphan.]
royal secretary <05608> [the scribe.]
entrance <06607> [entry. or, door.]
Shaphan <08227> [Shaphan.]
Elishama <0476> [Elishama.]
Elnathan <0494> [Elnathan.]
Gemariah <01587> [Gemariah.]
Hananiah <02608> [Hananiah.]
Nethaniah <05418> [Nethaniah.]
Cushi <03570> [Cushi.]
bring ...................... carrying <03947> [took.]
read .......... read <07121> [and read.]
alarm <06342> [they were.]
<05046> [We.]
<05046> [Tell.]
dictated <07121> [He.]
ink <01773> [with ink.]
{Baddeyo} is rendered by some, after him; but {deyo} (in Chaldee and Syriac {deyootha,} and in Welsh {du,}) certainly denotes ink; whence are derived the Arabic {dawat} and {deweet,} and Persian {deeveet,} an ink-holder; the Syriac {dayowo}, and Persian {div,} the devil. So the Alexandrian copy of the LXX. has [en melani,] and Vulgate {atramento,} "with ink." Perhaps the princes supposed that Baruch had written this roll from memory; and that it was rather to be considered as his composition, than the substance of Jeremiah's prophecies; and they might ask this apparently frivolous question in order to allay the alarms excited by considering it as the word of God. But Baruch, with great simplicity, so answered their question, as to shew that he only acted as Jeremiah's amanuensis, and wrote verbatim what he had dictated.
Jehudi .................... he <03065> [Jehudi.]
Jehudi .................... he <03065> [And Jehudi.]
A warm apartment suited to the season of the year, (December, when snow is often upon the ground in Palestine,) in which was a pan or brazier ({ach,} or {ikhkh,} as it is pronounced in Arabic) of burning charcoal; for we learn from Bp. Pococke, and Dr. Russel, that this was the mode in which the Orientals warmed their apartments.
cut ... off <07167> [he cut.]
alarm <06342> [they.]
tear <07167> [nor rent.]
Elnathan <0494> [Elnathan.]
urged <06293> [made.]
<08085> [but.]
<04429> [Hammelech. or, the king. to take.]
royal ....................... Lord <04428 03068> [but.]
burned <08313> [Thou hast.]
write <03789> [Why.]
King ........................ king <04428> [The king.]
occupy <03427> [He shall.]
dead body <05038> [and his.]
day ..... night <03117 03915> [in the.]
Sir J. Chardin observes, "In the Lower Asia, in particular, the day is always hot; and as soon as the sun is fifteen degrees above the horizon, no cold is felt in the depth of winter itself. On the contrary, in the height of summer the nights are as cold as at Paris in the month of March. It is for this reason that in Persia and Turkey they always make use of furred habits in the country, such only being sufficient to resist the cold of the nights. I have travelled in Arabia, and in Mesopotamia, (the theatre of the adventures of Jacob,) both in winter and in summer, and have found the truth of what the Patriarch said, "That he was scorched with the heat in the day, and stiffened with cold in the night." (Ge 31:40.) This contrariety in the qualities of the air in twenty-four hours is extremely great in some places, and not conceivable by those that have not felt it; one would imagine that he had passed in a moment from the violent heats of summer to the depth of winter. Thus it had pleased God to temper the heat of the sun by the coldness of night, without which the greatest part of the East would be barren, and a desert."
punish <06485> [punish. Heb. visit upon.]
bring <0935> [will bring.]
heed <08085> [but.]
<03947> [took.]
wrote <03789> [who.]
several other <03254> [there.]
scroll .......................... messages <01992 01697> [like words. Heb. words as they.]
Jeremiah 36:2
scroll <04039> [a roll.]
Write <03789> [write.]
Israel <03478> [against Israel.]
nations <01471> [against all.]
since .......... reign ..... now <03117> [from the days.]
Jeremiah 24:1-9
Lord <03068> [A.M. 3406. B.C. 598. Lord.]
two <08147> [two.]
after <0310> [after.]
metal workers <04525> [smiths.]
One basket ................. other basket <0259 01731> [One basket.]
ripened early <01073> [first ripe.]
The {boccore,} or figs of the early sort; perhaps those which are ripe about six weeks before the full season, which are reckoned a great dainty. See Note on Isa 28:4.
bad-looking <07451> [naughty.]
The winter fig, probably, then in its crude or unripe state.
bad <07455> [they were so bad. Heb. for badness.]
see <07200> [What.]
consider <05234> [I acknowledge.]
exiles <01546> [them that are carried away captive. Heb. the captivity. for.]
<07760> [For I will.]
restore <07725> [and I will bring.]
build <01129> [I will build.]
give <05414> [I will give.]
people <05971> [and they.]
return <07725> [for they.]
bad <07451> [as.]
<05414> [So will.]
live <03427> [and them.]
<02189> [to be removed. Heb. for removing, or vexation.]
object of reproach <02781> [to be a.]
curses <07045> [a curse.]
Jeremiah 24:2
One basket ................. other basket <0259 01731> [One basket.]
ripened early <01073> [first ripe.]
The {boccore,} or figs of the early sort; perhaps those which are ripe about six weeks before the full season, which are reckoned a great dainty. See Note on Isa 28:4.
bad-looking <07451> [naughty.]
The winter fig, probably, then in its crude or unripe state.
bad <07455> [they were so bad. Heb. for badness.]
Jeremiah 36:5-8
Read <07121> [and read.]
told <01697> [the words.]
fast <06685> [upon.]
then <05307> [It may.]
then .... ask .... for mercy <08467 05307> [they will present their supplication. Heb. their supplication shall fall. and will.]
great <01419> [for.]
So <06213> [did.]
Lord ...... scroll ....... Lord <05612 03068> [in the.]
