Jeremiah 26:1--45:5
[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.]
early <07225> [A.M. 3409. B.C. 595. the beginning.]
Lord told <03068 0559> [saith the Lord. or, hath the Lord said.]
Make <06213> [Make.]
put <05414> [put.]
Edom <0123> [Edom.]
envoys <04397> [the messengers.]
masters ... message .... Tell ................ masters <0113 0559> [to say unto their masters, Thus. or, concerning their masters, saying, Thus. the Lord.]
made <06213> [made.]
give <05414> [and have.]
placed .... nations <05414 0776> [I given all.]
servant <05650> [my.]
placed ........................ animals <05414 02416> [and.]
nations ................. nation <01471> [all.]
time <06256> [until.]
many <07227> [many.]
nation ................................... nation <01471> [And it.]
There is a peculiar grandeur, as well as propriety, in this method of predicting Nebuchadnezzar's rapid successes. The God of Israel, declaring himself to be the Lord of armies, and the Creator and Owner of the whole earth, with all its inhabitants and productions, and claiming full sovereignty over his creatures, avows his determination, for reasons he does not deign to assign, to give all the countries of the world to the king of Babylon, whom he calls his servant, because he would accomplish an important part of his most righteous designs. They, therefore, who would escape the most dreadful judgments, must submit to the God of Israel, by submitting to Nebuchadnezzar; they must hearken to the prophets of Israel, and not to their own diviners; and they must observe, that Nebuchadnezzar, his son, and his grandson, would whatever opposition should be made, possess the full dominion of all these countries, till the appointed time was expired; and then, these haughty conquerors would in their turn become the prey of other powerful conquerors; all of which was most exactly fulfilled.
nation ................................... nation <01471> [that nation.]
war <02719> [with the sword.]
listen <08085> [hearken.]
dreams <02472> [dreamers. Heb. dreams.]
prophecies <05012> [they.]
far <07368> [to.]
drive ... out <05080> [I.]
[to bring.]
leave <03240> [those.]
Zedekiah <06667> [Zedekiah.]
Submit <0935> [Bring.]
die <04191> [Why.]
war <02719> [by the sword.]
listen <08085> [hearken.]
prophesying <05012> [they.]
lies <08267> [a lie. Heb. in a lie, or lyingly. that I.]
prophets .............. die <06 05030> [ye.]
articles <03627> [Behold.]
prophesying ........................ prophesying <05012> [for.]
subject <05647> [serve.]
city <05892> [wherefore.]
prophets <05030> [they.]
pray earnestly <06293> [let them.]
pillars <05982> [the pillars.]
carried <01540> [when.]
[Coniah.]
[Jehoiachin.]
carried off <0935> [carried.]
time <03117> [until.]
bring <05927> [then.]
year ....................... year <08141> [the same.]
Hananiah <02608> [Hananiah.]
prophet <05030> [the prophet.]
break <07665> [I.]
years ... over <08141 03117> [two full years. Heb. two years of days.]
everything <03627> [all the.]
Nebuchadnezzar <05019> [that.]
back <07725> [I will bring.]
This was doubtless grateful news to the people, who looked upon Zedekiah only as Nebuchadnezzar's deputy. Hananiah seems to have been more desirous of popular than regal favour; for this prediction could not be altogether agreeable to Zedekiah. But he was evidently a weak as well as a wicked prince, and very generally despised.
Jeconiah <03204> [Jeconiah.]
[Coniah]
[Jehoiachin. captives. Heb. captivity.]
break <07665> [I will break.]
temple <01004> [the house.]
Amen <0543> [Amen.]
make <03068 06965> [the Lord perform.]
prophets <05030> [The prophets.]
As Hosea, Joel, Amos, Isaiah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, and others, all of whom had denounced similar evils against a corrupt people. So that they who opposed Jeremiah also opposed those who preceded him; and it was altogether unprecedented for a true prophet to promise deliverance to a guilty nation, without calling them to repentance.
prophesied <05012> [prophesied.]
prophesied <05012> [which.]
<0227> [then.]
took <03947> [took.]
spoke ............ says <0559> [Thus.]
break <07665> [Even.]
broken <07665> [Thou hast.]
have <06213> [thou shalt.]
By encouraging an unavailing resistance to Nebuchadnezzar.
put ............................ given <05414> [I have put.]
serve .......... serve <05647> [that they.]
put ............................ given <05414> [and I.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
This was a bold speech, in the presence of those priests and people who were prejudiced in favour of the false prophets, who prophesied to them smooth things.
remove <07971> [I will.]
year <08141> [this year.]
counseled <01696> [because.]
rebellion <05627> [rebellion. Heb. revolt.]
Hananiah <02608> [Hananiah.]
seventh month <02320 07637> [the seventh month.]
The prophecy was delivered in the fifth month, (ver. 1,) and Hananiah died in the seventh month; exactly two months after he had delivered his false prophecy, which he declared, in the name of God, would be fulfilled in two years. Here then the true prophet was demonstrated, and the false prophet detected. The death of Hananiah, thus predicted, was God's seal to the words of His prophet, and must have gained his other predictions great credit among the people; though it is evident that it did not induce them to forsake their sins and return to the God of Israel.
<01697> [Cir. A.M. 3407. B.C. 597. Now.]
This transaction is supposed to have taken place in the first or second year of Zedekiah.
letter <05612> [of the letter.]
elders <02205> [the elders.]
Jeconiah <03204> [Jeconiah.]
[Coniah.]
[Jehoiachin. eunuchs. or, chamberlains.]
Shaphan <08227> [Shaphan.]
Gemariah <01587> [Gemariah.]
sent <01540> [whom.]
Marry ....... Find wives ......... get married so <03947 0802> [Take ye.]
Marry ....... Find wives ......... get married so <03947 0802> [take wives.]
<01875> [seek.]
Pray <06419> [pray.]
prophets <05030> [Let.]
dreams <02472> [your dreams.]
lies <08267> [falsely. Heb. in a lie.]
fulfill <06310> [after.]
consideration <06485> [I will.]
know <03045> [I know.]
planned ......... plans <04284> [thoughts.]
future .... hope <0319 08615> [expected end. Heb. end and expectation.]
seek ................ seek <01245 01875> [ye shall.]
heart <03824> [with.]
I ..... available <04672> [I will be.]
Then .... reverse ............................ back <07725> [and I will turn.]
bring <07971> [Behold.]
<08182> [them like.]
make <05414> [will deliver.]
cursed <0423> [to be a curse. Heb. for a curse.]
attention <08085> [hear.]
Dr. Blayney thinks there were two letters written by the prophet to the captives in Babylon, and the first ends with this verse. That having heard, on the return of the embassy, that the captives had received his advices favourably, and because they were deceived by false prophets, who promised them a speedier deliverance, he therefore wrote a second letter, beginning with the fifteenth verse, and going on with the twenty-first, etc. (in which order these verses are read in the Septuagint,) in which he denounces God's judgments on the three chief of those, Ahab, Zedekiah, and Shemaiah.
exiles <01473> [all ye.]
sent <07971> [whom.]
prophesying <05012> [which.]
<03947> [shall be.]
roasted <07033> [roasted.]
done ................. spoken <06213 01696> [and have.]
lies <08267> [lying.]
<03045> [even I.]
Shemaiah <08098> [Shemaiah.]
Nehelamite <05161> [Nehelamite. or, dreamer.]
sent <07971> [Because.]
Zephaniah <06846> [Zephaniah.]
in charge <06496> [officers.]
<0376> [for every.]
prophet <05012> [and maketh.]
made .................................. put <05414> [that thou.]
reprimanded <01605> [therefore.]
to be a prophet <05012> [which.]
Send ................................. send <07971> [Send.]
Shemaiah .... Shemaiah <08098> [Because.]
punish <06485> [punish.]
any <0376> [he shall.]
punish .................. experience <06485 07200> [behold.]
rebellion <05627> [rebellion. Heb. revolt.]
[Cir.A.M. 3417. B.C. 587.]
time <03117> [the days.]
back ...... gave <07725 05414> [that I.]
back <07725> [and I.]
cries <06963> [a voice.]
terror ..... peace <06343 07965> [of fear, and not of peace. or, there is fear, and not peace.]
man <02145> [a man. Heb. a male. every.]
pale <03420> [paleness.]
time <03117> [for.]
There has never <0369> [so.]
time <06256> [it is.]
rescued <03467> [but.]
<07665> [I.]
subjugate <05647> [serve.]
afraid <03372> [fear.]
rescue <03467> [I.]
enjoy peace <08252> [and shall.]
affirm <05002> [I am.]
<06213> [though.]
discipline <03256> [but I.]
plead <01777> [none.]
wounds <04205> [that, etc. Heb. for binding up, or pressing.]
healing <08585> [hast.]
allies <0157> [lovers.]
attacked <05221> [I.]
sin <02403> [because.]
complain <02199> [Why.]
[thy sorrows.]
great <07230> [for the.]
<05927> [For I.]
called <07121> [they.]
restore <07725> [Behold.]
city <05892> [the city.]
former ruins <08510> [heap. or, little hill. the palace.]
Out <03318> [out.]
increase their number <07235> [and I.]
increase their number ............ honor <07235 03513> [I will.]
descendants <01121> [children.]
punish <06485> [and I.]
leader <0117> [nobles.]
ruler <04910> [governor.]
invite <07126> [and I.]
dare <06148> [for.]
dare <06148> [engaged.]
storm .... raging storm <05591> [the whirlwind.]
rage down <01641> [continuing. Heb. cutting. fall. or, remain.]
anger <02740> [fierce.]
come <0319> [in.]
time <06256> [same.]
God <0430> [will.]
clans ... Israel <04940 03478> [of.]
people <05971> [The people.]
find <04672> [found.]
journey <01980> [when.]
far-off <07350> [of old. Heb. from afar. I have.]
everlasting <05769> [an.]
[with loving-kindness have I drawn. or, have I extended loving-kindness unto.]
rebuild .............. built up <01129> [build.]
dear children <01330> [O.]
rebuild .............. built up ...... take up <01129 05710> [again.]
tambourine <08596> [tabrets. or, timbrels.]
plant .......... plant ...... enjoy <05193> [yet.]
hills <02022> [mountains.]
enjoy <02490> [eat. Heb. profane.]
when <03117> [a day.]
mountains <02022> [upon.]
<06965> [Arise.]
Sing <07442> [Sing.]
Lord .......................... Lord <03068> [O.]
remain alive <07611> [remnant.]
bring <0935> [I.]
distant parts <03411> [the coasts.]
Blind <05787> [them the.]
come back <0935> [come.]
praying prayers <08469> [supplications. or, favours. I will.]
smooth <03477> [in a.]
father <01> [for I.]
Ephraim <0669> [Ephraim.]
Proclaim <05046> [declare.]
scattered <02219> [He.]
watch <08104> [and keep.]
rescue <06299> [redeemed.]
overpowered <02389> [stronger.]
come <0935> [Therefore.]
Mount <04791> [the height.]
radiant <05102> [and shall.]
grain <01715> [wheat.]
<05315> [and their.]
grow faint or weary <01669> [and they.]
young women <01330> [shall.]
turn <02015> [for.]
provide <07301> [satiate.]
people <05971> [my people.]
sound <06963> [A.]
Ramah <07414> [Ramah.]
[Rama.]
her <03985> [refused.]
[because.]
Stop <04513> [Refrain.]
heartfelt <06468> [for.]
return <07725> [they.]
heard <08085> [surely.]
Israel <0669> [Ephraim.]
disciplined <03256> [Thou hast.]
calf <05695> [as a.]
come back <07725> [turn.]
Lord <03068> [for.]
after ......... After <0310> [Surely after.]
beat <05606> [I smote.]
ashamed <0954> [I was ashamed.]
<05375> [I did.]
people of Israel <0669> [Is Ephraim.]
even though ................... pity ........ compassion <01767 07355> [for.]
deeply <04578> [my bowels.]
moved <01993> [are troubled. Heb. sound.]
pity ........ compassion <07355> [I will.]
keep in mind <05324> [Set thee.]
took .......... your minds <07896 03820> [set thine.]
Return ....... Return <07725> [turn.]
dear children <01330> [O.]
vacillate <02559> [How.]
unfaithful <07728> [backsliding.]
bring <01254> [created.]
woman <05347> [A woman.]
[nqbh tcwbb gbr <\\See definition 05347\\>,] literally "A female ('one who is only a woman, not a wife, namely a virgin,' says Cocceius) shall encompass a man," or a male child: comp. Job 3:3. Which, together with the addition of a new creation, may well be understood to denote the miraculous conception. Hence the Jews have applied it determinately to the Messiah. In Berashith Rabba, (Parash 89) it is said, that as God punished Israel in a virgin, so would he also heal; and in Midrash Tillim, on Ps. 2, R. Huna, in the name of R. Idi, speaking of the sufferings of the Messiah, says, that when his hour is come, God shall say, "I must create him with a new creation; and so he saith, This day I have begotten thee."
says ...................... say <0559> [As.]
Lord ................................... Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
dwells <05116> [O.]
mountain <02022> [and mountain.]
time <03117> [the days.]
<02232> [that I.]
saw ..................... see <08245> [that like.]
uprooted <05428> [to pluck.]
saw ..................... see <08245> [so.]
time <03117> [the days.]
make <03772> [I.]
people of <01004> [with.]
covenant .................. covenant <01285> [Not.]
when <03117> [in the.]
covenant .................. covenant <01285> [which.]
husband <01166> [although I was. or, should I have continued?]
covenant <01285> [But this shall be the.]
God <0430> [and will.]
teach <03925> [teach.]
know ................ know ..... Lord <03045 03068> [Know the.]
know ................ know <03045> [for they.]
forgive <05545> [for I.]
promises <05414> [which giveth.]
stirs <07280> [which divideth.]
waves <01530> [when.]
Lord ............................................................ Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
fixed ordering <02706> [those.]
cease <07673> [cease.]
heavens <08064> [If.]
reject <03988> [I.]
time <03117> [the days.]
city <05892> [that.]
Tower <04026> [the tower.]
Gate <08179> [the gate.]
valley <06010> [the whole.]
Valley <05158> [the brook.]
[Cedron.]
Valley ...... far north ................. Lord <05158 06438 03068> [unto.]
sacred <06944> [shall be.]
torn down <05428> [it shall.]
tenth <06224> [A.M. 3415. B.C. 589. in the.]
eighteenth <08083> [the eighteenth.]
king ..................... royal <04428> [then.]
The siege had commenced on the tenth month of the preceding year, and continued a year after, ending in the fifth month of the following year; consequently the siege must have lasted eighteen months and twenty-seven days. See 2 Ki 25:18.
Jeremiah <03414> [Jeremiah.]
king .............. courtyard ........ royal <02691 04428> [in the.]
Zedekiah <06667> [Zedekiah.]
prophesying <05012> [Wherefore.]
hand <05414> [Behold.]
dealt <06485> [until.]
fight <03898> [though.]
Hanamel <02601> [Behold.]
Anathoth <06068> [Anathoth.]
entitled <04941> [for.]
courtyard <02691> [court.]
Anathoth <06068> [Anathoth.]
recognized <03045> [Then I.]
said .............................................................. spoken <01697> [that this.]
That it was by His appointment that I was to make this purchase; the whole of which was designed as a symbolical act, to shew the people, that although Judah and Jerusalem should be desolated, and the inhabitants carried captive to Babylon, yet there should be a restoration, when lands and possessions should be again enjoyed by their legal owners, in the same manner as formerly. During the famine that prevailed in the city, Hanameel probably wanted money to purchase bread, and his field would not be thought of much value in such circumstances, which may account for the stipulated sum being so very small; for at 2s. 6d. the shekel, it would only amount to about 2Å“. 2s. 6d.
weighed out <08254> [weighed.]
seven ounces ... silver <08255 03701 07651> [seventeen shekels of silver. or, seven shekels, and ten pieces of silver.]
signed <03789> [I.]
signed ... deed <05612 03789> [subscribed the evidence. Heb. wrote in the book.]
sealed <02856> [and sealed.]
purchase <05749> [and took.]
order of transfer <04687> [according.]
Baruch <01263> [Baruch.]
Neriah <05374> [Neriah.]
presence <05869> [and in.]
Take <03947> [Take.]
Houses <01004> [Houses.]
prayed <06419> [I Prayed.]
Oh <0162> [Ah.]
make <06213> [thou.]
<01697> [there.]
[to hard for thee. or, hid from thee.]
show <06213> [shewest.]
punish <07999> [recompensest.]
great <01419> [the Great.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
great <01419> [Great.]
deeds <05950> [work. Heb. doing.]
see <05869> [for.]
reward <05414> [to give.]
did <07760> [hast set.]
<06213> [and hast.]
brought ..... out <03318> [brought.]
great <02389> [with a strong.]
oath <07650> [which.]
kept ... promise .............. land <0776> [a land.]
took possession <03423> [possessed.]
obey <08085> [but.]
do ........ do <06213> [they have.]
disaster <07451> [therefore.]
ramps <05550> [mounts. or, engines of shot.]
The mounts were huge terraces raised up to plant their engines on; and so formed as to be capable of being moved forwards towards the city. See Note on 2 Sa 20:15.
city .............. make ... city <05892 05414> [the city is.]
<06440> [because.]
threatened <01696> [what.]
said <0559> [thou.]
city ............................ silver <03701 05892> [for. or, though.]
God <0430> [God.]
<01697> [is.]
hand <05414> [Behold.]
set <03341> [and set.]
rooftops <01406> [upon.]
people <01121> [children.]
earliest history <05271> [from.]
city <05892> [this city.]
anger <0639> [a provocation of mine anger. Heb. for my anger. that I.]
do so .......... made .......... kings ................... have done <06213 04428> [they.]
turned <06437> [turned.]
turning <06203> [back. Heb. neck. rising.]
built <01129> [they built.]
Valley .......................... commanded <01516 06680> [which.]
Ben ......... sons ................................... Judah <01121 03063> [to cause.]
saying <0559> [now.]
make <05414> [It.]
regather <06908> [I will gather.]
"This promise," says Jerome, "taken in its full extent was not made good to those that returned from captivity; because they were frequently infested with wars, as well by the kings of Syria and Egypt as by the rest of their neighbours; and they were finally subdued and destroyed by the Romans." God's word cannot fail; therefore there remaineth yet a rest for the ancient people of God.
live <03427> [I will cause.]
give <05414> [I.]
single-minded ....... way <01870 0259> [one way.]
respect <03372> [they may.]
[for every. Heb. all days. for the.]
make <03772> [I will make.]
<07725> [that I.]
stop <0310> [from them. Heb. from after them. but I.]
delight <07797> [Yea, I.]
plant <05193> [and I.]
faithfully <0571> [assuredly. Heb. in truth, or stability.]
bring ............................. bringing <0935> [Like.]
bring ............................. bringing <0935> [so.]
bought <07069> [buy.]
territory <0776> [in the land.]
restore <07622> [for I.]
As an earnest of these promises, houses and lands shall again take a good price in Judah and Jerusalem; and though they now are almost valueless, there shall again be a sufficiency of purchasers. Trade shall revive, for they shall have money enough to buy land with; husbandry shall revive, for those that have money, shall covet to lay it out upon lands; laws shall again have their due course, for they shall subscribe evidences, and seal them.
spoke <01697> [A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. Moreover.]
This was the eleventh year of Zedekiah, Jeremiah being still shut up in prison; but he was now in the court of the prison, where the elders and the king's officers might consult him with the greater ease.
confined <06113> [he.]
do <06213> [the maker.]
Osah, rather, "the Doer of it:" that is, He who is to perform that which He is now about to promise; thus rendered by Dahler; {Voici ce qui dit l'Eternel, qui fait ce qu'il a dit.} "Thus saith the Eternal, who doeth that which he hath said."
Lord ....... Lord .............. Lord <03068> [the Lord. or, Jehovah.]
Call <07121> [Call.]
show <05046> [shew.]
mysterious <01219> [mighty. Heb. hidden.]
torn down <05422> [thrown.]
go out <0935> [come.]
turn my back on <05641> [I have hid.]
will <05927> [I will bring.]
heal the wounds <0724> [health.]
{Aruchah;} not a plaister, as some, or progress, as others; but health, or the healing or closing of a wound, as the cognate Arabic {areekat} signifies, from {araka,} to heal.
show <01540> [and will.]
<07622> [will cause.]
rebuild <01129> [and will.]
fame <08034> [a name.]
nations <01471> [before.]
awe <06342> [fear.]
say ....... saying <0559> [which ye.]
sounds ... joy ... gladness ..... celebrations <08342 06963> [voice of joy.]
sounds ..... gladness ..... celebrations ...................... say <06963 0559> [the voice of them.]
Give thanks .... Lord ........ Lord ............. Lord <03034 03068> [Praise the.]
thank offerings <08426> [sacrifice.]
restore <07725> [For I.]
people ... animals <0120 0929> [without.]
towns <05892> [in all.]
sheep <06629> [shall.]
descendant <06780> [the Branch.]
do <06213> [and he.]
Judah <03063> [shall Judah.]
live <07931> [shall dwell.]
<03072> [The Lord our righteousness. JEHOVAH-tsidkenu.]
David ... never lack <01732 03808 03772> [David shall never want. Heb. There shall not be cut off from]
David.
covenant <01285> [may.]
descendant <01121> [that he.]
From the destruction of Jerusalem to the present time, a period of nearly eighteen hundred years, the Jews have had neither a king nor any form of government whatever; nor has the office of high priest, or priest of any kind offering sacrifice, been exercised among them during the same period. Hence this must be understood of the spiritual David, Jesus Christ, both the king and High Priest of his church, "the Israel of God," (Ga 6:16,) in whom the covenant of royalty with David and his seed, and that of priesthood with Aaron and his seed, have received their full accomplishment; and all the sacrifices of that dispensation were superseded by his "one oblation of himself," the efficacy of which remains for ever.
Levites <03881> [and with.]
stars in the sky <06635> [the host.]
numerous <07235> [so.]
Levites <03881> [the Levites.]
two <08147> [The two.]
surely noticed ....... haven't .............. Israel ... Judah ...... they have little regard ...... ever <05006> [thus.]
covenant <01285> [If my.]
governing <07760> [and if.]
reject .......... refuse <03988> [will I.]
choose ..................... restore <03947 07622> [I will.]
mercy <07355> [and have.]
spoke <01697> [A.M. 3415. B.C. 589. The word.]
This chapter contains two discourses, one concerning the taking of the city, and Zedekiah's captivity and death, ver. 1-7; and the other containing an invective against the inhabitants of Jerusalem for retaining their Hebrew slaves, ver. 8-22; both of which were delivered in the tenth year of Zedekiah.
Nebuchadnezzar <05019> [when.]
kingdoms <04467> [all the kingdoms.]
consisted ......... from <03027> [of his dominion. Heb. the dominion of his hand.]
go <01980> [Go.]
give ..................... hand <05414> [Behold.]
escape ................................ go <04422 0935> [And thou.]
confront <05869> [and thine.]
answer <06310 01696> [he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth. Heb. his mouth shall speak to thy mouth.]
die <04191> [But thou.]
burn <04955> [and with.]
<08313> [so.]
mourn <05594> [and they.]
attacking Jerusalem <03898 03389> [fought against.]
Lachish <03923> [Lachish.]
fortified <04013> [for.]
made <03772> [had.]
grant <07121> [to proclaim.]
Hebrew <05680> [Hebrew.]
keep ..... enslaved <05647> [serve.]
leaders <08269> [when.]
agreed ....................... complied <08085> [then.]
made <03772> [I made.]
when <03117> [in the.]
Every <07093> [At the.]
sold <04376> [been sold. or, sold himself.]
ancestors <01> [but.]
It appears from this and several other passages, that the sabbatical year had been wholly neglected some centuries before the captivity; and the author of the second book of Chronicles (ch. 36:21) assigns this as a reason for the captivity, "that the land might enjoy her sabbaths." Now, if we reckon the seventy years' captivity as a punishment for this neglect, it will follow that the law on this subject had been disregarded for about 490 years.
Recently .......................... made <03117 03772> [ye.]
Recently <03117> [now. Heb. to-day. in proclaiming.]
made <03772> [ye had.]
granted ........................ claimed .... own <07121 08034> [which is called by my name. Heb. whereupon my name is called.]
turned right around ............. took back <07725> [ye turned.]
did not honor <02490> [polluted.]
forced <03533> [and brought.]
freedom <07121> [behold.]
When they proclaimed liberty to their slaves, God restrained the sword from cutting them off; but now having resumed their authority over them, He proclaimed liberty to these dire judgments to seize upon, and destroy them.
die ... war ... by <02719> [to the sword.]
make <05414> [I will.]
<02189> [to be removed. Heb. for a removing.]
violated .................. passed <05674> [have transgressed.]
cut <03772> [when.]
This was the ancient mode of making a covenant. (See on De 29:12 Jos 9:7.)
leaders <08269> [princes.]
court officials <05631> [the eunuchs.]
hand <03027> [and into.]
dead bodies <05038> [and their.]
Zedekiah <06667> [Zedekiah.]
withdrawn <05927> [which are.]
order <06680> [I will command.]
back <07725> [cause.]
They did return, and reinvested the city; and, after an obstinate defence, took it, plundered it, and burnt it to the ground, taking Zedekiah, his princes, and people, captive.
fight <03898> [shall fight.]
make <05414> [and I will.]
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.]
Zedekiah <06667> [A.M. 3406-3416. B.C. 598-588. Zedekiah.]
Jeconiah <03659> [Coniah.]
[Jeconiah.]
[Jehoiachin. made.]
officials <05650> [neither.]
prophet <05030> [the prophet. Heb. the hand of the prophet.]
Zephaniah <06846> [Zephaniah.]
pray <06419> [Pray.]
put <05414> [for.]
Pharaoh <06547> [Pharaoh's.]
This was Pharaoh Hophra, or Apries, as he is called by Herodotus, who succeeded his father Psammis on the throne of Egypt, A.M. 3410, B.C. 594, and reigned twenty-five years. Having entered into a confederacy with Zedekiah, (Eze 17:15,) he marched out of Egypt with a great army to his relief; which caused Nebuchadnezzar to raise the siege of Jerusalem to meet him; during which period the transactions detailed here took place.
withdrew <05927> [they.]
<0559> [Thus.]
Pharaoh <06547> [Pharaoh's.]
deceive <05377> [Deceive.]
yourselves <05315> [yourselves. Heb. your souls.]
defeat <05221> [though.]
wounded <0582 01856> [wounded men. Heb. men thrust through.]
get up <06965> [yet.]
forces ......... army <02428> [that.]
withdrawn <05927> [broken. Heb. made to ascend.]
leave <03318> [went.]
territory <0776> [the land.]
divided ... among <02505 08432> [separate himself thence. or, slip away from thence.]
Gate <08179> [in the.]
Hananiah <02608> [Hananiah.]
deserting <05307> [Thou.]
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.]
questioned him .... asked him <07592> [asked.]
message <01697> [Is there.]
<05414> [thou shalt.]
Where <0346> [Where.]
prophets <05030> [your.]
grant <06440 05307> [be accepted before. Heb. fall before.]
die <04191> [lest.]
courtyard ...................................... courtyard <02691> [into the.]
ordered <05414> [and that.]
bread ............... bread <03899> [until.]
Jeremiah ...................................... Jeremiah <03414> [Thus.]
Shephatiah <08203> [Shephatiah.]
Jehucal <03116> [Jucal.]
[Jehucal. Pashur.]
[Melchiah.]
[Malchijah.]
Now <08085> [heard.]
stay .................... surrender ............ lives <03427 03318 05315> [He.]
lives <05315> [shall have.]
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.)
Ebed Melech <05663> [Ebed-melech.]
An Ethiopian <03569> [Ethiopian.]
court official <05631> [eunuchs.]
royal .............. king <04428> [the king.]
<0582> [these.]
die <04191> [is like to die. Heb. will die. for there]
king <04428> [the king.]
<03027> [with thee. Heb. in thine hand.]
let ... down <07971> [let them.]
Put <07760> [Put.]
pulled <04900> [So.]
Jeremiah ........ Jeremiah <03414> [Jeremiah.]
sent <07971> [sent.]
third <07992> [third. or, principal.]
ask <07592> [I will.]
So .... made .... promise ........ an oath ... promised <07650> [sware.]
<06213> [that made.]
<0582> [of these.]
God who rules over all ... God <0430 06635> [the God of hosts.]
God ....... God ... Israel <0430 03478> [the God of Israel.]
surrender <03318> [If thou.]
surrender <03318> [if thou.]
city <05892> [then.]
afraid <01672> [I.]
torture <05953> [mock.]
obey <08085> [Obey.]
life <05315> [and thy.]
refuse <03986> [if thou.]
what <01697> [this is.]
women <0802> [all.]
saying <0559> [and those.]
Mr. Harmer would render, "and here ({hennah,} or reading {hinneh,} behold,) the women (wont to sing on public occasions) shall say," etc.; observing "that these bitter speeches much better suit the lips of women belonging to the conquering nation, singing before a captive prince, than of his own wives and concubines." This he illustrates by the following extract from Della Valle: When he was at Lar, in Persia, the king of Ormuz was brought thither in triumph; and "this poor unfortunate king entered Lar, with his people, in the morning, music playing, and girls and women singing and dancing before him, according to the custom of Persia, and the people flocking together with a prodigious concourse, and conducting him in a pompous and magnificent manner, particularly with colours displayed, like what the Messenians formerly did to Philopoemen, the general of the Athenians, their prisoner of war, according to the report of Justin."
<0582> [Thy friends. Heb. The men of thy peace.]
misled <05496> [have set.]
feet <07272> [thy feet.]
turned <05472> [they are.]
turned <03318> [they shall.]
city <05892> [shalt cause, etc. Heb. shalt burn, etc.]
told <05046> [and he told.]
what .......... stopped questioning ............ conversation <02790 01697> [left off speaking with him. Heb. were silent from him.]
ninth <08671> [A.M. 3414. B.C. 590. the ninth.]
tenth <06224> [the tenth.]
This was the month Tebeth, (Es 2:16,) which began with the first moon of January; and it was on the 10th of this month that Nebuchadnezzar invested the city.
fourth <07243> [A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. the fourth.]
This was the month Tammuz, which commences with the first moon of July: the siege had lasted just eighteen months.
broke <01234> [was.]
other officers <08269 07611> [all the.]
Nergal-Sharezer .......... Nergal-Sharezer <05371> [Nergalsharezer.]
Nebo-Sarsekim <08310> [Sarsechim.]
These were the principal commanders; but Dr. Blayney thinks that, instead of six persons, we have in reality but three, as the name that follows each is the title of the office. Thus Nergal-Sharezer, who was Samgar-nebo, or keeper, i.e., priest of Nebo; Sarsechim, who was Rab-saris, or chief eunuch; and Nergal-sharezer, who was Rab-mag, or chief magi; as the words {mog} in Persian, {magoos} in Arabic, {magooshai} in Syriac, and [magos <\\See definition 3097\\>,] in Greek, signify; and we learn from Justin and Curtius that the magi attended the king in war.
Zedekiah <06667> [when]
walls <02346> [betwixt.]
[Chaldeans'.]
plains <06160> [in the plains.]
Riblah <07247> [Riblah.]
Hamath <02574> [Hamath.]
sentence <04941 01696> [gave judgment upon him. Heb. spake with him judgments.]
sons put to death ................... put to death <07819 01121> [slew the.]
forced to watch <05869> [before.]
put to death ................ nobles .... put to death <07819 02715> [slew all.]
put out <05786> [he put.]
chains <05178> [chains. Heb. two brasen chains, or fetters.]
burned down <08313> [burned.]
tore <05422> [and brake.]
Nebuzaradan <05018> [Nebuzar-adan.]
captain .... royal guard <02876 07227> [captain of the guard. or, chief marshal. Heb. chief of the executioners, or slaughter-men. and so.]
captive .............. carried <01540> [carried.]
left behind .......... poor <07604 01800> [left of.]
time <03117> [at the same time. Heb. in that day.]
Nebuchadnezzar <05019> [Now.]
Nebuchadnezzar must have frequently heard of Jeremiah's predictions, many of which were now fulfilled, which would dispose him to respect his character and treat him with kindness.
orders <06680> [gave.]
through <03027> [to. Heb. by the hand of.]
look ....... do ....... do <05869 06213> [look well to him. Heb. set thine eyes upon him.]
do anything ...... do <06213 03972> [do him.]
Nebuzaradan <05018> [Nebuzar-adan.]
brought ........................ take <03947> [took.]
over <05414> [committed.]
Ahikam <0296> [Ahikam.]
had ......... confined <06113> [while.]
Ebed-Melech <05663> [Ebed-melech.]
carry out <0935> [Behold.]
<06440> [before thee.]
rescue <05337> [I will.]
<06440> [of whom.]
life <05315> [but.]
trust <0982> [because.]
spoke <01697> [The word.]
This, and the four following chapters, record the events which occurred in Judea from the taking of Jerusalem to the retreat of the remnant of the people to Egypt; and contain several prophecies of Jeremiah concerning them there; which were "the word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord." It appears that Jeremiah, after being freed from prison, continued among the Jews, till he was bound, with others of them, and carried to Ramah; where he was set a liberty in the manner related.
after <0310> [after.]
Ramah <07414> [Ramah.]
<0631> [bound.]
chains <0246> [chains. or, manacles.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
sinned <02398> [because.]
turn to leave ........ Go back <07725> [Go back.]
Ahikam <0296> [Ahikam.]
<03212> [or go.]
gave .... food <05414 0737> [gave him.]
food .... present <04864 0737> [victuals and a reward.]
Rather, "victuals, ({aruchah,} a stated allowance, sufficient for the journey,) and a present," {masse„th.}
went <0935> [Then.]
It has been doubted whether Jeremiah acted prudently in this decision, as the event seems to indicate the contrary, and as it was the evident meaning of all his predictions that the Jews should not prosper in their own country till the expiration of seventy years. But he was evidently influenced by the most unbounded love to his country, for whose welfare he had watched, prayed, and lived; and he now chose rather to share her adversities, her sorrows, her wants, her afflictions, and her disgrace, than to be the companion of princes, and to sit at the table of kings. His patriotism was as unbounded as it was sincere: he only ceased to live for country when he ceased to breathe.
Mizpah <04708> [Mizpah.]
[Mizpeh.]
officers <08269> [all the.]
poorer <01803> [the poor.]
So ........ came <0935> [came.]
Ishmael <03458> [even.]
Johanan <03110> [Johanan.]
Jonathan <03129> [Jonathan.]
Netophathite <05200> [Netophathite.]
Maacathite <04602> [Maachathite.]
oath <07650> [sware.]
afraid <03372> [Fear.]
represent <05975> [serve. Heb. stand before.]
harvest <0622> [gather.]
<07019> [summer.]
Judeans <03064> [all the Jews.]
Johanan <03110> [Johanan.]
Johanan and his companions seem to have acted honestly in this affair. They had received intelligence of designs formed against Gedaliah's life, and consequently against the whole new settlement. Ishmael, being a branch of David's family, was probably displeased that another was preferred above him; and the king of the Ammonites, out of hatred to the Jews, employed him to slay Gedaliah. But Gedaliah, conscious of his own integrity and benevolence, took the portrait of others from his own mind; and therefore believed evil of no man, because he felt none towards any in his own breast. He may be reproached for being too credulous and confiding; but this only serves to shew the greatness of his soul; for a little mind is always suspicious, and ready to believe the worst of every person and thing.
son ......... son <01121> [Ammonites.]
Ishmael <03458> [Ishmael.]
kill <05221> [slay thee? Heb. strike thee in soul. believed.]
<03212> [Let.]
kill ............... kill <05221> [wherefore.]
do <06213> [Thou shalt.]
seventh month <02320 07637> [the seventh month.]
This was the month {Tisri,} answering to the new moon of September, the seventh of the sacred, but the first of the civil year; on the third day of which the Jews keep a fast, in commemoration of the death of Gedaliah, to which the prophet Zechariah refers, ch. 8:19; 39:2; 52:6. 2 Ki 25:3, 8, 25. Zec 7:5; 8:19.
Ishmael <03458> [Ishmael.]
Elishama <0476> [Elishama.]
member ........... Zedekiah's <02233 04428> [of the.]
member <02233> [seed.]
eating <0398> [they did.]
killed <05221> [and smote.]
king <04428> [whom.]
murdered <04191> [after.]
arrived ................................ present <0935> [came.]
Shechem <07927> [Shechem.]
Shiloh <07887> [Shiloh.]
Samaria <08111> [Samaria.]
beards <02206> [their beards.]
All these were signs of deep mourning; which, though forbidden on funeral occasions, were customary, and perhaps counted allowable, on seasons of public calamity, and this mourning was probably on account of the destruction of Jerusalem.
temple <01004> [to the.]
cry <01058> [weeping, etc. Heb. in going and weeping.]
slaughtered <07819> [slew.]
kill ............................... kill <04191> [Slay.]
hidden <04301> [treasures.]
These "treasures hid in the field" were doubtless laid up in subterranean pits, similar to the {mattamores} in Barbary, in which, Dr. Shaw informs us, they deposit the grain when winnowed; two or three hundred of them being sometimes together, and the smallest holding four hundred bushels. The same mode of keeping corn prevails in Syria and the Holy Land.
cistern <0953> [the pit.]
This was probably a large reservoir for receiving rain water, which Asa had caused to be made in the midst of the city, in case of a siege.
<03027 01436> [because of Gedaliah. or, near Gedaliah. Heb. by the hand, or the side of Gedaliah. was it.]
<06440> [for fear.]
people ................. rest .... people <07611 05971> [all the.]
royal <04428> [even.]
Nebuzaradan <05018> [whom.]
son ..... son ................. Ammonites <01121> [to the.]
Johanan <03110> [Johanan.]
fight <03898> [to fight.]
large <07227> [the great.]
people <05971> [that when.]
They appear to have been weary of the tyranny of Ishmael, and glad of an opportunity to abandon him.
escape <04422> [escaped.]
eight <0582 08083> [eight men.]
soldiers <01397> [even.]
<03643> [Chimham.]
<03212> [to go.]
As Johanan and the other princes had taken a decided part against Ishmael, they had no sufficient reason to fear that the Chaldeans would revenge on them the murder of Gedaliah; but perhaps Johanan was unwilling to be superseded in the command which he had rightly assumed, and so used his influence to induce the whole company to take refuge in Egypt; and their old attachment to the Egyptians rendered them more ready to concur in this ruinous measure.
were afraid ... what .... might do <03372> [for they.]
Ishmael <06440 03458> [because.]
king <04428> [whom.]
officers ............... people <08269 05971> [all the.]
Jezaniah <03153> [Jezaniah.]
[Jaazaniah.]
every class <06996> [from.]
went <05066> [came.]
grant <05307 06440> [be accepted before thee. Heb. fall before thee.]
pray <06419> [and pray.]
left out <07604> [left.]
Jeremiah <03414> [Jeremiah.]
The princes seem to have wholly neglected Jeremiah, till on this occasion they wanted his sanction to their purpose of going to Egypt. In order to induce him to favour them, they applied to him with one consent, in the most respectful and plausible manner: they used language to prepossess him with a favourable opinion of them, and to move his compassion; and, in words expressing great humility, they entreated his prayers in their behalf, and that he would enquire of the Lord what he would have them to do. The prophet readily acquiesced; and doubted not but that he should receive an answer from God, which he would unreservedly declare to them; and they called the Lord to witness that they would implicitly follow his directions.
pray <06419> [I will pray.]
as <01697> [whatsoever.]
anything <04513> [I will keep.]
Lord .... true ............... Lord <03068 0571> [The Lord be.]
do <06213> [if we.]
<02896> [it be good.]
well <03190> [that it.]
At this time he was waiting for a revelation from God in answer to the enquiries of the people; who probably thus delayed to make known his will, in order to shew them that Jeremiah did not speak of his own mind, but when and as he was directed. The delay was also suited to give time for consideration, and to retard their rash project; and, as it would render them impatient, it tended to detect their hypocrisy, and to shew more clearly their determined rebellion against God.
Johanan <03110> [Johanan.]
said ..... sent .................... says <0559 07971> [unto.]
stay <03427> [abide.]
build <01129> [then.]
sorrow <05162> [for I.]
afraid .......... fear ..... afraid <03372 03373> [afraid.]
save <03467> [for I.]
go <0935> [we will go.]
hear <08085> [nor hear.]
so determined <07760> [If.]
If ye are determined to go into Egypt, the evils which ye dreaded by staying in your own land shall overtake and destroy you there; "and there shall ye die." God turned the policy of the wicked to their own destruction; for while they thought themselves safe in Egypt, there Nebuchadnezzar destroyed both them and the Egyptians.
wars <02719> [that the sword.]
follow <01692> [follow close. Heb. cleave. there ye.]
<0582> [it be with all the men. Heb. all the men be. they shall.]
survive <08300> [none.]
wrath <0639> [As mine.]
The people had witnessed the tremendous effects of the wrath of God, in the siege and destruction of Jerusalem; and had they not been past feeling, this denunciation must have made their ears tingle, and appalled their very souls.
cursed <0423> [ye shall be.]
see <07200> [and ye shall see.]
go <0935> [Go.]
God knew, that such was their miserable propensity to idolatry, that they would adopt the idolatrous worship of Egypt. Add to which, their going thither for protection was in effect refusing to submit to the king of Babylon, to whom God had decreed the rule of Judah and the neighbouring kingdoms.
sure <03045> [know.]
warn ..... now <05749 03117> [admonished you. Heb. testified against you.]
fatal <08582> [For ye.]
God made known to the prophet their dissimulation; which he shunned not to declare to them.
fatal <05315 08582> [dissembled in your hearts. Heb. have used deceit against your souls.]
Pray <06419> [Pray.]
day <03117> [I have.]
obey <08085> [but.]
sure <03045> [know.]
place <04725> [in the.]
go ... live <0935 01481> [to go and to sojourn. or, to go to sojourn.]
finished <03615> [had made.]
things <01697> [all the words.]
Azariah <05838> [Azariah.]
[Jezaniah. Johanan.]
arrogant <02086> [all the.]
telling <01696> [Thou speakest.]
They had no other colour for their rebellion than flatly to deny that God had spoken what the prophet had declared, the constant method of hypocrites and infidels, who pretend that they are not satisfied of the truth of Divine revelation, when the true cause of their unbelief is, that the commands of God contradict their lusts and appetites.
Baruch <01263> [Baruch.]
wants ... hand ....... so that ... will <05414 04616> [to deliver.]
obey <08085> [obeyed.]
stay <03427> [to dwell.]
Instead <03947> [took.]
royal <04428> [the king's.]
off <05315> [every.]
Jeremiah <03414> [Jeremiah.]
went ............. came <0935> [So.]
Tahpanhes <08471> [Tahpanhes.]
[Tahapanhes.]
[Hanes.]
[Tehaphnehes.]
large <01419> [great.]
pavement <04404> [in the brick-kiln.]
<07971> [I will send.]
servant <05650> [my servant.]
royal tent <08237> [his royal.]
attack <05221> [he shall smite.]
die of disease ... die of disease <04194> [such as are for death.]
temples <01004> [in the.]
clean like ...... lice <05844> [array.]
clean like ...... lice <05844> [putteth.]
sacred pillars <04676> [images. Heb. statues, or standing images. Beth-shemesh. or, the house of the sun.]
temples <01004> [and the.]
spoke <01697> [Cir. A.M. 3433. B.C. 571. The word.]
Dahler supposes this discourse to have been delivered in the seventeenth or eighteenth year after the taking of Jerusalem.
Judeans <03064> [concerning.]
Migdol <04024> [Migdol.]
Tahpanhes <08471> [Tahpanhes.]
{Tahpanhes,} rendered [Taphne] and [Taphnai] by the LXX., is no doubt the [Daphnai] of Herodotus, a royal city of Lower Egypt, situated, according to the Itinerary of Antoninus, sixteen miles south from Pelusium, from which it was called Daphn‘ Pelusic‘. Forster says that there is now a place situated in the vicinity of Pelusium called Safnas, which may be a vestige of the ancient name. It appears to have been the very first town in Egypt, in the road from Palestine, that afforded tolerable accommodation for the fugitives. It was at this place that, according to Jerome and several of the ancients, tradition says the faithful Jeremiah was stoned to death by these rebellious wretches, for whose welfare he had watched, prayed, and suffered every kind of indignity and hardship.
[Tehaphnehes. Noph.]
southern <06624> [Pathros.]
[Pathrusim.]
seen <07200> [Ye have.]
ruins <02723> [a desolation.]
wickedness <07451> [of their.]
gods <0430> [gods.]
sent ............. warning <07971> [I sent.]
disgusting <08441> [this.]
people ........ listen <08085> [they.]
sacrificing <06999> [burn.]
anger <02534> [my fury.]
ruins <02723> [wasted.]
yourselves <05315> [against.]
<03772> [to cut.]
child <05768> [child.]
Judah <03063> [Judah. Heb. the midst of Judah. to leave.]
angry <03707> [ye provoke.]
destroyed <03772> [that ye might cut.]
curses <07045> [a curse.]
forgotten <07911> [ye forgotten.]
wicked ..................... by ........ wives by <07451> [wickedness. Heb. wickedness, or punishments, etc. the wickedness of your.]
shown ... contrition <01792> [are not.]
shown ... contrition <01792> [humbled. Heb. contrite.]
revered <03372> [neither.]
determined <07760> [I will.]
see <03947> [I will take.]
every class <06996> [from the.]
curse <0423> [and they shall be.]
remnant <07611> [So.]
It is evident from ver. 28, that some Jews were to escape the general destruction in Egypt, and to return into their own country, though but a few; and the same thing is implied in the latter clause of this verse. But the former part excludes from the number of those who should escape every individual of those who are properly termed "the remnant of Judah;" those who had willingly and rebelliously "set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to dwell there," on a presumption that they knew better than God how to consult their own restoration. The few, then, who were destined to escape, were to be such as had come into the land of Egypt with Johanan by compulsion, or had previously fled thither, or in some other less offensive manner, and chanced to be there when the storm burst upon them.
come <0935> [which are.]
escape ........................... fugitives <06412 06405> [shall escape.]
<05375> [which they.]
long <05315 05375> [have a desire. Heb. lift up there soul. for none.]
wives ............ wives .............. people <0582 0802 05971> [all the.]
listen <08085> [we.]
vowed <01697> [whatsoever.]
Queen ... Heaven <08064 04446> [queen of heaven. or, frame of heaven.]
As the Sun was worshipped, not only under the name of {baal shamayim,} "Lord of heaven," but also by that of {Molech,} or King; it is likely also that the Moon was adored as {melecheth hashshamayim,} "the Queen of heaven." So the Orphic hymn addressed to the Moon begins [Klythi thea BASILEIA,] Hear, goddess Queen. And Homer, in his Hymn to the Moon, addresses her, [Chaire, anassa, thea] All hail, Queen, goddess. In Epiphanius, we find some women of Arabia, towards the end of the fourth century, had set up another queen of heaven, the Virgin Mary, too well known since under that name and character, whom they likewise worshipped as a goddess, by holding stated assemblies every year to her honour, and by offering a cake of bread in her name; whence these heretics were called Collyridians, from the Greek [kollyris,] a cake.
do .................................... did <06213> [as we.]
ancestors <01> [our fathers.]
towns <05892> [in the cities.]
plenty <07646> [then.]
food <03899> [victuals. Heb. bread.]
have been .......... wars <02637> [we have.]
sacrifice <06999> [we burned.]
But <01107> [without.]
husbands <0582> [men. or, husbands.]
streets <02351> [and in.]
Lord <03068> [did.]
could <03201> [could.]
land <0776> [your land.]
sacrificed <06999> [ye have burned.]
followed <01980> [nor walked.]
statutes <02708> [nor in his statutes.]
decrees <05715> [nor in his testimonies.]
disaster <07451> [therefore.]
Listen <08085> [Hear.]
Judah <03063> [all Judah.]
women <0802> [Ye and.]
carry out ..................... Carry ... out <06213> [We will.]
fulfill <06965> [ye will.]
swear <07650> [I have sworn.]
name .................... name <08034> [that my name.]
Lord ................... Lord ................................................. Lord God <03068 0136 03069> [The Lord God.]
see <08245> [will watch.]
<08552> [shall be.]
<04962> [a small.]
know <03045> [shall know.]
[mine, or theirs. Heb. from me or them.]
<0226> [a sign.]
threats <01697> [my words.]
hand .......................... handed <05414> [I will.]
hand .......................... handed <05414> [as I.]
Baruch <01263> [A.M. 3397. B.C. 607. Baruch.]
writing down in <03789> [when.]
fourth <07243> [in the.]
Baruch <01263> [unto.]
hopeless <0188> [Woe.]
added <03254> [added.]
worn out <03021> [I fainted.]
planted <05193> [that which.]
looking ......... look <01245> [seekest.]
looking ......... look <01245> [seek.]
bring <0935> [I will bring.]
life <05315> [thy life.]
