Jeremiah 39:1-8
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.]
Jeremiah 51:34-35
King <04428> [the king.]
drove .... out <03322> [he hath made.]
swallowed <01104> [swallowed.]
violence <02555> [The violence. Heb. My violence.]
relatives <07607> [flesh. or, remainder. inhabitant. Heb. inhabitress.]
Jeremiah 52:1-2
twenty-one .............. eleven <0259> [A.M. 3406-3416. B.C. 598-588. one.]
[begin to reign. Heb. reigned. Libnah.]
did .......... done <06213> [he did.]
Jehoiakim <03079> [according.]
Jeremiah 24:1--25:30
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.]
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.]
servants <05650> [all.]
Urijah the son of Shemaiah, and Huldah the prophetess, lived about this time. Zephaniah also prophesied during part of the time; and it is probable that Habakkuk was contemporary with them.
again <07925> [rising.]
have ... listened ... paid attention <08085> [ye.]
turn <07725> [Turn.]
as <05704> [for.]
angry <03707> [that ye.]
send <07971> [I.]
Nebuchadnezzar <05019> [Nebuchadrezzar.]
land .... inhabitants ..... nations <0776 03427 01471> [against.]
horror <08047> [an astonishment. See on ch.]
put an end .... sounds ........ glad celebration ................ sound <06 06963> [take from. Heb. cause to perish from.]
sounds ... joy ...... glad celebration ................ sound <08342 06963> [voice of mirth.]
sounds ........ glad celebration ................ sound <06963> [the sound.]
Sir J. Chardin remarks, that in the East, every where in the morning may be heard the noise of the mills, which often awakens people; for they generally grind every day just as much as may be necessary for the day's consumption. Where, then, the noise of the mill is not heard in the morning, nor the light of the candle seen in the evening, there must be an utter desolation.
seventy <07657> [seventy.]
This prophecy was delivered in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, and began to be accomplished immediately; and it was exactly seventy years from this time to the proclamation of Cyrus for the return of the Jews.
seventy <07657> [when.]
punish <06485> [that I.]
punish <06485> [punish. Heb. visit upon. See on ch.]
everlasting <05769> [perpetual.]
prophesied <05012> [hath. See on ch.]
many <07227> [many.]
repay <07999> [I.]
Take <03947> [Take.]
nations <01471> [all.]
nations <01471> [and made.]
Jerusalem <03389> [Jerusalem.]
did <05414> [to make.]
already becoming <03117> [as it.]
Pharaoh <06547> [Pharaoh.]
<06153> [the mingled.]
Uz <05780> [Uz.]
Philistines <06430> [Philistines.]
Ashkelon <0831> [Ashkelon.]
[Askelon, Gaza. remnant.]
Edom <0123> [Edom.]
Moab <04124> [Moab.]
<01121> [the.]
Tyre <06865> [Tyrus.]
Sidon <06721> [Zidon.]
coastlands along ... sea <05676 03220 0339> [isles which are beyond the sea. or, region by the sea side.]
Dedan <01719> [Dedan.]
short .... temples <06285 07112> [in the utmost corners. Heb. cut off into corners, or having the corners of the hair polled.]
Arabia <06152> [Arabia.]
<06153> [the mingled. See on ver.]
Zimri <02174> [Zimri.]
[Zimran. Elam.]
Media <04074> [Medes.]
kings ...................................... king <04428> [all the kings.]
kings ...................................... king <04428> [and the.]
drink <08354> [drink.]
Drink <08354> [Drink.]
<06440> [because.]
refuse <03985> [if.]
drink ................ must drink <08354> [Ye.]
bring <02490> [I begin.]
call ... own .................. proclaiming <07121 08034> [which is called by my name. Heb. upon which my name is called.]
avoid ... punished ...... unpunished <05352> [Ye shall.]
call .................... proclaiming <07121> [I will.]
roar ................... roar mightily <07580> [roar.]
holy <06944> [his holy.]
<06030> [give.]
Jeremiah 25:2
Jeremiah 36:1-23
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.]
Isaiah 47:6
angry <07107> [wroth.]
defiled <02490> [I have polluted.]
placed <07760> [thou didst.]
old people <02205> [upon.]
Daniel 6:24
gave <0858> [and they brought.]
den ................. den ........ crushed <01358 0581 01855> [them.]
This savage act accorded with the customs of those times; contrary to the Divine law which enacted that "the fathers should not be put to death for the children, nor the children for the fathers."
children <01123> [their children.]
lions ..................... lions <0744> [the lions.]
