Jeremiah 26:16-17
Then <06965> [Then rose.]
Jeremiah 26:24
Ahikam <0296> [Ahikam.]
<05414> [that.]
Jeremiah 34:19
leaders <08269> [princes.]
court officials <05631> [the eunuchs.]
Jeremiah 36:12-19
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.
Jeremiah 36:25
Elnathan <0494> [Elnathan.]
urged <06293> [made.]
<08085> [but.]
Jeremiah 37:14-16
answered <0559> [said.]
lie <08267> [false. Heb. falsehood. or, a lie.]
officials <08269> [the princes.]
put <05414> [put.]
house <01004> [in the.]
prison <01004> [A.M. 3415. B.C. 589. into the dungeon.]
cell <02588> [cabins. or, cells.]
Jeremiah 38:4-6
officials <08269> [the princes.]
<03651> [thus.]
<07965> [welfare. Heb. peace.]
King <04428> [for.]
took <03947> [took.]
cistern ................................. cistern <0953> [into.]
<04428> [Hammelech. or, the king.]
lowered <07971> [and they.]
cistern ................................. cistern <0953> [And in.]
This dungeon, which seems to have belonged to one of Zedekiah's sons, appears to have been a most dreadful place; the horrors of which were probably augmented by the cruelty of the jailor. "The eastern people," observes Sir J. Chardin, "have not different prisons for the different classes of criminals; the judges do not trouble themselves about where the prisoners are confined, or how they are treated, considering it merely as a place of safety; and all that they require of the jailor is, that the prisoner be forthcoming when called for. As to the rest, he is master to do as he pleases; to treat him well or ill; to put him in irons or not; to shut him up close, or hold him in easier restraint; to admit people to him, or to suffer nobody to see him. If the jailor and his servants have large fees, let the person be the greatest rascal in the world, he shall be lodged in the jailor's own apartment, and the best part of it; and on the contrary, if those that have imprisoned a man give the jailor greater presents, or that he has a greater regard for them, he will treat the prisoner with the greatest inhumanity." This adds a double energy to those passages which speak of "the sighing of the prisoner," and to Jeremiah's supplicating that he might not be remanded to the dungeon of Jonathan. (ver. 26; ch. 37:20.)
Ezekiel 22:6
princes <05387> [the princes.]
authority <02220> [power. Heb. arm.]
Ezekiel 22:27
officials <08269> [princes.]
get dishonest <01214> [to get.]
