Jeremiah 29:1--32:44
<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.
