《 Treasury of Scripture Knowledge – Jeremiah (Vol. 2) 》 (R. A. Torrey )

27 Chapter 27

Introduction

1 Under the type of bonds and yokes he prophesies the subduing of the neighbour kings unto Nebuchadnezzar.

8 He exhorts them to yield, and not to believe the false prophets.

12 The like he does to Zedekiah.

19 He foretells the remnant of the vessels shall be carried to Babylon, and there continue until the day of visitation.

Verse 1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

A. M. 3409. B.C. 595. the beginning 3,12,19,20; 26:1; 28:1

Verse 2 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,

saith the Lord or, hath the Lord said. Amos 7:1,4 Make 12; 28:10-14 put 13:1-11; 18:2-10; 19:1-11; 28:10; 1 Kings 11:30,31; Isaiah 20:2-4; Ezekiel 4:1-5; 12:1-28; 24:3-12

Verse 3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;

Edom 25:19-26; 47:1-49; Ezekiel 25:1-28; 29:18; Amos 1:9-15; 2:1-3 the messengers 2 Chronicles 36:13; Ezekiel 17:15-21

Verse 4 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;

to say unto their masters, Thus or, concerning their masters, saying, Thus. the Lord. 10:10,16; 25:27; 51:19; Exodus 5:1

Verse 5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.

made 10:11,12; 32:17; 51:15; Genesis 9:6; Exodus 20:11; Job 26:5-14; 38:4-41; Psalms 102:25; 136:5-9; 146:5,6; 148:2-5; Isaiah 40:21-26; 42:5; 44:24; Isaiah 45:12; 48:13; 51:13; John 1:1-3; Acts 14:15; 17:24; Colossians 1:16; Hebrews 1:2,10,11; Revelation 4:11 and have Genesis 1:29,30; 9:2,3; Deuteronomy 2:7,9,19; 5:16; 32:8; Joshua 1:2,3; Ezra 1:2; Psalms 115:15,16; 135:10-12; Deuteronomy 2:21; 4:17,25,32,35

Verse 6 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.

I given all 28:14; Daniel 2:37,38; 5:18,19 my

24:1; 25:9; 43:10; 51:20-23; Isaiah 44:28; Ezekiel 29:18-20 and 28:14; Psalms 50:10-12; Daniel 2:38

Verse 7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.

all 25:11-14; 50:9,10; 52:31; 2 Chronicles 36:20,21 until 25:12; 50:27; Psalms 37:13; 137:8,9; Isaiah 13:1,8-22; 14:22,23; 21:9; Isaiah 47:1-5; Daniel 5:25-31; Habakkuk 2:7; Zechariah 2:8,9; Revelation 13:5-10; 14:8,15-20; 16:19; Revelation 17:16,17; 18:2-8 many 25:14; 50:1-51; Isaiah 14:4-6

Verse 8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

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. that nation 25:28,29; 38:17-19; 40:9; 42:10-18; 52:3-6; Ezekiel 17:19-21 with the sword 24:10; Ezekiel 14:21

Verse 9 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:

hearken 14-16; 14:14; 23:16,25,32; 29:8; Exodus 7:11; Deuteronomy 18:10-12,14; Joshua 13:22; *marg:; Isaiah 8:19; Micah 3:7; Zechariah 10:2; Malachi 3:5; Acts 8:11; Revelation 9:21; 18:23; 21:8; Revelation 22:15 dreamers Heb. dreams. Isaiah 47:12-14

Verse 10 For <I>they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.

they 14; 28:16; Ezekiel 14:9-11 to 32:31; Lamentations 2:14 I

Verse 11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

to bring 2,8,12

those 21:9; 38:2; 40:9-12; 42:10,11

Verse 12 I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

Zedekiah 3; 28:1; 38:17; 2 Chronicles 36:11-13; Proverbs 1:33; Ezekiel 17:11-21 Bring 2,8

Verse 13 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

Why 38:20; Proverbs 8:36; Ezekiel 18:24,31; 33:11 by the sword 8; 24:9; 38:2; Ezekiel 14:21

Verse 14 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

hearken 9; Isaiah 28:10-13; 2 Corinthians 11:13-15; Philippians 3:2 they 10; 14:14; 23:21,25; 28:15; 29:8,9; 1 Kings 22:22,23; Ezekiel 13:6-15,22,23; Micah 2:11; Matthew 7:15; 2 Peter 2:1-3; 1 John 4:1

Verse 15 For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.

a lie Heb. in a lie, or lyingly. that I.

10; 2 Chronicles 18:17-22; 25:16; Ezekiel 14:3-10; Matthew 24:24; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12; 2 Timothy 2:17-19; 4:3,4; Revelation 13:7,8,12-14 ye 6:13-15; 8:10-12; 14:15,16; 20:6; 23:15; 28:16,17; 29:22,23,31,32; Micah 3:5-7; Matthew 15:14; Revelation 19:20

Verse 16 Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD'S house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

Behold 28:3; 2 Kings 24:13; 2 Chronicles 36:7-10; Daniel 1:2 for 10,14; Isaiah 9:15

Verse 17 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?

serve 11,12 wherefore 13; 38:17,23

Verse 18 But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.

they 1 Kings 18:24,26 let them 7:16; 15:1; 18:20; 42:2; Genesis 18:24-33; 20:17; 1 Samuel 7:8; 12:19,23; 2 Chronicles 32:20; Job 42:8,9; Ezekiel 14:14,18-20; 22:30; Malachi 1:9; James 5:16-18

Verse 19 For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,

the pillars 52:17-23; 1 Kings 7:15-22; 2 Kings 25:13,17; 2 Chronicles 4:2-16

Verse 20 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;

when 22:28 Coniah 24:1; 2 Kings 24:14-16 Jehoiachin 2 Chronicles 36:10,18

Verse 22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.

carried 29:10; 34:5; 52:17-21; 2 Kings 24:13-17; 2 Chronicles 36:17,18; Daniel 5:1-4,23 until 25:11,12; 29:10; 32:5; 2 Chronicles 36:21-23; Ezra 1:1-5; Proverbs 21:30; Daniel 9:2 then Ezra 1:7,11; 5:13-15; 7:9,19

28 Chapter 28

Introduction

1 Hananiah prophesies falsely the return of the vessels, and of Jeconiah.

5 Jeremiah, wishing it to be true, shews that the event will declare the true prophets.

10 Hananiah breaks Jeremiah's yoke.

12 Jeremiah tells of an iron yoke;

15 and foretells Hananiah's death.

Verse 1 And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

the same 27:1 Hananiah 11; 36:12; 37:13 the prophet 23:28; Isaiah 9:15; Zechariah 13:2-4

Verse 2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

I 27:2-12; Ezekiel 13:5-16; Micah 3:11

Verse 3 Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD'S house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon:

two full years Heb. two years of days. Genesis 47:9,28; Psalms 90:10 all the 27:16-22 that 2 Kings 24:13; 2 Chronicles 36:10; Daniel 1:2

Verse 4 And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the LORD: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

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 22:24,28; 24:1; 52:31-34; 2 Kings 25:27-30 Jehoiachin captives. Heb. captivity. 24:5; *marg: I will break 2,10; 2:20; 30:8; Genesis 27:40; Isaiah 9:4; Nahum 1:13

Verse 5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the LORD,

the house 1; 7:2; 19:14; 26:2

Verse 6 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD'S house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.

Amen Numbers 5:22; Deuteronomy 27:15-26; 1 Kings 1:36; 1 Chronicles 16:36; Psalms 41:13; 72:19; 89:52; Psalms 106:48; Matthew 6:13; 28:20; 1 Corinthians 14:16; 2 Corinthians 1:20; Revelation 1:18; 3:14; 5:14; Revelation 19:4; 22:20,21 the Lord perform

3; 11:5; 17:16; 18:20

Verse 7 Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people;

1 Kings 22:28

Verse 8 The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

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 Leviticus 26:14-46; Deuteronomy 4:26,27; 28:15-68; 29:18-28; 31:16,17; 32:15-44; 1 Samuel 2:27-32; 3:11-14; 1 Kings 14:7-15; 17:1; 21:18-24; 22:8; Isaiah 5:1-8; Isaiah 6:9-12; 13:18; 24:1-23; Joel 1:2-20; 3:1-11; Micah 3:8-12; Nahum 1:1-3; Amos 1:2

Verse 9 The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath truly sent him.

which 4:10; 6:14; 8:11; 14:13; Ezekiel 13:10,16 then Deuteronomy 18:22; Ezekiel 13:10-16

Verse 10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.

took

2,4; 27:2; 36:23,24; 1 Kings 22:11,24,25; Malachi 3:13

Verse 11 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

Thus 23:17; 29:9; 1 Kings 13:18; 22:6,11,12; 2 Chronicles 18:10,22,23; Proverbs 14:7; Ezekiel 13:7 Even 2-4; 27:2-12

Verse 12 Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

1:2; 29:30; 2 Kings 20:4; 1 Chronicles 17:3; Daniel 9:2

Verse 13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.

Thou hast 27:15; Psalms 149:8; Lamentations 2:14 thou shalt By encouraging an unavailing resistance to Nebuchadnezzar.

Verse 14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.

I have put 27:4,7; 40:4; Deuteronomy 4:20; 28:48; Isaiah 14:4-6 that they 25:9-26; Revelation 17:12,13

and I 27:6,7; Daniel 2:38

Verse 15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.

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. 11; 14:14,15; 23:21; 27:15; 29:23,31,32; 1 Kings 22:23; Ezekiel 13:2,3,22; Ezekiel 22:28; Lamentations 2:14; Zechariah 13:3

Verse 16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.

I will Genesis 7:4; Exodus 32:12; Deuteronomy 6:15; 1 Kings 13:34; Amos 9:8 this year 3; 20:6; Numbers 14:37; 16:28-35; 29:32; Deuteronomy 13:5-11 because Ezekiel 13:11,12; Acts 13:8-11 rebellion Heb. revolt. 29:32; Deuteronomy 13:5; *margins

Verse 17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

Hananiah Isaiah 44:25,26; Zechariah 1:6 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.

29 Chapter 29

Introduction

1 Jeremiah sends a letter to the captives in Babylon to be quiet there,

8 and not to believe the dreams of their prophets;

10 and that they shall return with grace after seventy years.

15 He foretells the destruction of the rest for their disobedience.

20 He shews the fearful end of Ahab and Zedekiah, two lying prophets.

24 Shemaiah writes a letter against Jeremiah.

30 Jeremiah foretells his doom.

Verse 1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;

Cir A.M. 3407. B.C. 597. Now. This transaction is supposed to have taken place in the first or second year of Zedekiah. of the letter 25-29; 2 Chronicles 30:1-6; Esther 9:20; Acts 15:23; 2 Corinthians 7:8; Galatians 6:11; Hebrews 13:22; Revelation 2:1-3 the elders 24:1-7; 28:4

Verse 2

(After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)

Jeconiah 22:24-28 Coniah 27:20; 28:4; 2 Kings 24:12-16; 2 Chronicles 36:9,10 Jehoiachin eunuchs. or, chamberlains. 2 Kings 9:32; *marg:; 2 Kings 20:18; Daniel 1:3-21

Verse 3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,

Shaphan 26:24; 39:14; 2 Kings 22:8; Ezekiel 8:11 Gemariah 36:25; 2 Kings 22:12; 2 Chronicles 34:20

Verse 4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;

whom 24:5; Isaiah 5:5; 10:5,6; 45:7; 59:1,2; Amos 3:6

Verse 5 Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;

10,28; Ezekiel 28:26

Verse 6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

Take ye 16:2-4; Genesis 1:27,28; 9:7; 1 Timothy 5:14

take wives Genesis 21:21; 24:3,4,51,60; 28:1-4; 29:19; 34:4; Judges 1:12-14; 12:9; 14:2; 1 Corinthians 7:36-38

Verse 7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

seek Daniel 4:27; 6:4,5; Romans 13:1,5; 1 Peter 2:13-17 pray Ezra 6:10; 7:23; Daniel 4:19; 1 Timothy 2:1,2

Verse 8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.

Let 14:14; 23:21; 27:14,15; 28:15; Zechariah 13:4; Matthew 24:4,5,24; Mark 13:5,6,22,23; Luke 21:8; Romans 16:18; 2 Corinthians 11:13-15; Ephesians 4:14; 5:6; 2 Thessalonians 2:3,9-11; 2 Timothy 3:13; 2 John 1:7-9; Revelation 13:14; 19:20 your dreams 5:31; Micah 2:11; Luke 6:26; 2 Peter 2:2,3

Verse 9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.

falsely Heb. in a lie. 23,31; 27:15

Verse 10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

after 25:12; 27:7,22; 2 Chronicles 36:21-23; Ezra 1:1,2; Daniel 9:2; Zechariah 7:5 I will 24:6,7; 32:42-44; Zephaniah 2:7

Verse 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

I know Job 23:13; Psalms 33:11; 40:5; Isaiah 46:10,11; 55:8-12; Micah 4:12; Zechariah 1:6; Zechariah 8:14,15 thoughts 3:12-19; 30:18-22; 31:1-33; Isaiah 40:1-46; Ezekiel 34:11-31; Ezekiel 36:1-37; 39:1-29; Hosea 2:14-23; 3:5; 14:2-9; Joel 2:28-32; Amos 9:8-15; Micah 5:4-7; 7:14-20; Zephaniah 3:14-20; Zechariah 9:9-17; 12:5-10; Zechariah 14:20,21; Revelation 14:8-14 expected end Heb. end and expectation. Lamentations 3:26

Verse 12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

31:9; 33:3; Nehemiah 2:4-20; Psalms 10:17; 50:15; 102:16,17; Isaiah 30:19; 65:24; Ezekiel 36:37; Daniel 9:3-19; Zechariah 13:9; Matthew 7:7,8

Verse 13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

ye shall Leviticus 26:40-45; Deuteronomy 4:29-31; 30:1-20; 1 Kings 8:47-50; 2 Chronicles 6:37-39; Psalms 91:15; Isaiah 55:6,7; Hosea 5:15; 6:1-3; Amos 5:4-6; Zephaniah 2:1-3; Luke 11:9,10 with 3:10; 24:7; Deuteronomy 30:2,10; 1 Kings 2:4; 2 Kings 23:3; 2 Chronicles

22:9; 31:21; Psalms 119:2,10,58,69,145; Joel 2:12; Acts 8:37

Verse 14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

I will be Deuteronomy 4:7; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 2 Chronicles 15:12-15; Psalms 32:6; 46:1; Isaiah 45:19; 55:6; Romans 10:20 and I will turn 16:14,15; 23:3-8; 24:5-7; 30:3,10; 31:8-14; 32:37-44; 33:7-26; Jeremiah 46:27,28; 50:4,5,19,20,33,34; 51:10; Psalms 126:1,4; Ezekiel 11:16-20; Ezekiel 34:1-31; 36:1-39; Amos 9:14; Micah 4:12; Zephaniah 3:20

Verse 15 Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;

8,9; 28:1-17; Ezekiel 1:1,3

Verse 16 Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;

3; 24:2; 38:2,3,17-23; Ezekiel 6:1-9; 17:12-21; 21:9-27; 22:31; Ezekiel 24:1-14

Verse 17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

Behold 18; 15:2,3; 24:8-10; 34:17-22; 43:11; 52:6; Ezekiel 5:12-17; 14:12-21; Luke 21:11,23 them like 24:1-3,8

Verse 18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:

will deliver 15:4; 24:9; 34:17; Leviticus 26:33; Deuteronomy 28:25,64; 2 Chronicles 29:8; Psalms 44:11; Ezekiel 6:8; 12:15; 22:15; 36:19; Amos 9:9; Zechariah 7:14; Luke 21:24 to be a curse Heb. for a curse. 22; 19:8; 25:9; 26:6; 42:18; Deuteronomy 29:21-28; 1 Kings 9:7,8; 2 Chronicles 7:19-22; 29:8; Isaiah 65:15; Lamentations 2:15,16

Verse 19 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.

6:19; 7:13,24-26; 25:3-7; 26:5; 32:33; 34:17; 35:14-16; 44:4,5; Zechariah 1:4-6; 7:11-13; Hebrews 12:25

Verse 20 Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:

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. all ye Ezekiel 3:11,15

whom 24:5; Micah 4:10

Verse 21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;

which 8,9; 14:14,15; Lamentations 2:14

Verse 22 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;

shall be Genesis 48:20; Ruth 4:11; Isaiah 65:15; 1 Corinthians 16:22 roasted Daniel 3:6,21

Verse 23 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.

and have 7:9,10; 23:14,21; Psalms 50:16-18; Zephaniah 3:4; 2 Peter 2:10-19; Jude 1:8-11 lying 8,9,21 even I 13:27; 16:17; 23:23,24; Proverbs 5:21; Malachi 2:14; 3:5; Hebrews 4:13; Revelation 1:5; Revelation 3:14

Verse 24 Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,

Shemaiah

31,32 Nehelamite or, dreamer.

Verse 25 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

Because 1 Kings 21:8-13; 2 Kings 10:1-7; 19:9,14; 2 Chronicles 32:17; Ezra 4:7-16; Nehemiah 6:5,17; Nehemiah 6:19; Acts 9:2 Zephaniah 29; 21:1,2; 37:3; 52:24; 2 Kings 25:18-21

Verse 26 The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.

officers 20:1,2; 2 Kings 11:15,18; Acts 4:1; 5:24 for every 2 Kings 9:11; Hosea 9:7; Mark 3:21; John 10:20; Acts 26:11,24; 2 Corinthians 5:13-15 and maketh 27; Deuteronomy 13:1-5; Zechariah 13:3-6; Matthew 21:23; John 8:53; 10:33 that thou 20:1,2; 38:6,28; 2 Chronicles 16:10; 18:26; Acts 5:18; 16:24; 2 Corinthians 11:33; Revelation 2:10

Verse 27 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?

therefore 2 Chronicles 25:16; Amos 7:12,13; John 11:47-53; Acts 4:17-21; 5:28,40

which 26; 43:2,3; Numbers 16:3; Matthew 27:63; 2 Timothy 3:8

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Verse 29 Jeremiah href="/desk/?q=jer+29:25&sr=1">Jeremiah 29:25

Verse 31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:

Send Because 9,23; 14:14,15; 23:21; 28:15-17; Ezekiel 13:8-16,22,23; 2 Peter 2:1

Verse 32 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.

punish 20:6; Exodus 20:5; Numbers 16:27-33; Joshua 7:24,25; 2 Kings 5:27; Psalms 109:8-15; Isaiah 14:20,22; Amos 7:17 he shall 22:30; 35:19; 1 Samuel 2:30-34 behold 10-14; 17:6; 2 Kings 7:2,19,20 rebellion Heb. revolt. 28:16; *marg:

30 Chapter 30

Introduction

1 God shews Jeremiah the return of the Jews.

4 After their trouble they shall have deliverance.

10 He comforts Jacob.

18 Their return shall be gracious.

23 Wrath shall fall on the wicked.

Verse 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

Cir &A.M. 3417. B.C. 587. 1:1,2; 26:15

Verse 2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

36:2-4,32; 51:60-64; Exodus 17:14; Deuteronomy 31:19,22-27; Job 19:23,24; Isaiah 8:1; 30:8; Daniel 12:4; Habakkuk 2:2,3; Romans 15:4; 1 Corinthians 10:11; 2 Peter 1:21; Revelation 1:11,19

Verse 3 For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

the days 23:5,7; 31:27,31,38; 33:14,15; Luke 17:22; 19:43; 21:6; Hebrews 8:8 that I 10,18; 27:22; 29:14; 31:23; 32:37,44; 33:7-11,26; Deuteronomy 30:3; Psalms 53:6; Ezekiel 39:25,26; Joel 3:1; Amos 9:14,15; Obadiah 1:19,20; Zephaniah 3:20 and I 16:15; 23:8; 27:11; Ezra 3:1,8,12; Ezekiel 20:42; 28:25,26; 36:24; Ezekiel 37:21-25; 39:27,28; 47:14

Verse 5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

a voice 4:15-20; 6:23,24; 8:19; 9:19; 25:36; 31:15,16; Isaiah 5:30; 59:11; Amos 5:16-18; 8:10; Zephaniah 1:10,11; Luke 19:41-44; 21:25,26; 23:29-30 of fear, and not of peace or, there is fear, and not peace. 46:5

Verse 6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

a man Heb. a male. every. 4:31; 6:24; 13:21; 22:23; 49:24; 50:43; Psalms 48:6; Isaiah 13:6-9; 21:3; Daniel 5:6; Hosea 13:13; Micah 4:9,10; John 16:21,22; 1 Thessalonians 5:3 paleness Isaiah 29:22; Joel 2:6; Nahum 2:10

Verse 7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

for Isaiah 2:12-22; Ezekiel 7:6-12; Hosea 1:11; Joel 2:11,31; Amos 5:18-20; Zephaniah 1:14-18; Zechariah 14:1,2; Malachi 4:1; Acts 2:20; Revelation 6:17 so Lamentations 1:12; 2:13; 4:6; Daniel 9:12; 12:1; Matthew 24:21,22; Mark 13:19 it is Genesis 32:7,24-30; Hosea 12:2-4 but 10; 50:18-20,33,34; Psalms 25:22; 34:19; Isaiah 14:1,2; Romans 11:26

Verse 8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:

I 27:2; 28:4,10,13; Isaiah 9:4; 10:27; 14:25; Ezekiel 34:27; Nahum 1:13 serve 25:14; 27:7

Verse 9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.

Isaiah 55:3-5; Ezekiel 34:23; 37:23-25; Hosea 3:5; Luke 1:69; Acts 2:30; 13:34

Verse 10 Therefore <I>fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.

fear 46:27,28; Genesis 15:1; Deuteronomy 31:6-8; Isaiah 41:10-15; 43:5; 44:2; 54:4; Zephaniah 3:16,17; John 12:15 I 3; 3:18; 23:3,8; 29:14; 46:27; Isaiah 46:11,13; 49:25; 60:4-22; Ezekiel 16:52 and shall 23:6; 33:16; Isaiah 35:9; Ezekiel 34:25-28; 38:11; Hosea 2:18; Micah 4:3,4; Zephaniah 3:15; Zechariah 2:4,5; 3:10; 8:4-8

Verse 11 For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.

I am

1:8,19; 15:20; 46:28; Isaiah 8:10; 43:25; Ezekiel 11:16,17; Matthew 1:23; Matthew 28:20; Acts 18:10; 2 Timothy 4:17,18,22 though 4:27; 5:10,18; 46:27,28; Ezekiel 11:13; Amos 9:8,9; Romans 9:27-29; 11:5-7 but I 10:24; Psalms 6:1; Isaiah 27:7,8

Verse 12 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.

15; 14:17; 15:18; 2 Chronicles 36:16; Isaiah 1:5,6; Ezekiel 37:11

Verse 13 There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.

none Psalms 106:23; 142:4; Isaiah 59:16; Ezekiel 22:30; 1 Timothy 2:5,6; 1 John 2:1 that, etc Heb. for binding up, or pressing. Luke 10:30-34 hast 17; 8:22; 17:14; 33:6; Exodus 15:26; Deuteronomy 32:39; Job 5:18; 34:29; Isaiah 1:6; Hosea 6:1; 14:4; Nahum 3:19; 1 Peter 2:24

Verse 14 All thy <I>lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.

lovers 2:36; 4:30; 22:20,22; 38:22; Lamentations 1:2,19; Ezekiel 23:9,22; Hosea 2:5,10-16; Revelation 17:12-18 I Job 13:24-28; 16:9; 19:11; 30:21; Lamentations 2:5; Hosea 5:14 because 15; 5:6; Psalms 90:7,8; Ezekiel 9:8-10

Verse 15 Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

Why 15:18; Joshua 9:10,11; Lamentations 3:39; Micah 7:9 thy sorrows 12,17; 46:11; Job 34:6,29; Isaiah 30:13,14; Hosea 5:12,13; Micah 1:9; Malachi 4:1,2 for the 14; 2:19,28-30; 5:6-9,25-31; 6:6,7,13; 7:8-11; 9:1-9; 11:13; 32:30-35; 2 Chronicles 36:14-17; Ezra 9:6,7,13; Nehemiah 9:26-36; Isaiah 1:4,5,21-24; Isaiah 5:2; 59:1-4,12-15; Lamentations 1:5; 4:13; 5:16,17; Ezekiel 16:1-63; 20:1-49; Ezekiel 22:1-23; Zephaniah 3:1-5

Verse 16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

10:25; 12:14; 25:12,26-29; 50:7-11,17,18,28,33-40; 51:34-37; Exodus 23:22; Psalms 129:5; 137:8,9; Isaiah 14:2; 33:1; 41:11,12; 47:5,6; 54:15; Isaiah 54:17; Lamentations 1:21; 4:21,22; Ezekiel 25:3-7; 26:2-21; 29:6; 35:5; Micah 4:11; 7:10; Nahum 1:8; Habakkuk 2:16; Zephaniah 2:8; Zechariah 1:14; 2:8; 12:2; 14:2; Revelation 13:10

Verse 17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

For I 13; 3:22; 33:6; Exodus 15:26; Psalms 23:3; 103:3; 107:20; Isaiah 30:26; Ezekiel 34:16; Hosea 6:1; Malachi 4:2; 1 Peter 2:24; Revelation 22:2 they Nehemiah 4:1-4; Psalms 12:5; 44:13-16; 79:9-11; Isaiah 11:12; Lamentations 2:15; Ezekiel 35:12; Ezekiel 36:2,3,20

Verse 18 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.

Behold 3; 23:3; 29:14; 33:7,11; 46:27; 49:6,39; Psalms 85:1; 102:13 the city 31:40; Nehemiah 3:1-32; 7:4; Isaiah 44:26; Zechariah 12:6; 14:10 heap or, little hill. the palace. 1 Chronicles 29:1,19; Ezra 6:3-15; Psalms 78:69; Isaiah 44:28; Ezekiel 7:20-22; Haggai 2:7-9; Zechariah 1:16

Verse 19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

out 31:4,12,13; 33:10,11; Ezra 3:10-13; 6:22; Nehemiah 8:12,17; 12:43-46; Psalms 53:6; 126:1,2; Isaiah 12:1; 35:10; 51:11; 52:9; Zephaniah 3:14-20; Zechariah 8:19 and I 31:27; 33:22; Isaiah 27:6; 60:22; Ezekiel 36:10-15,37; 37:26; Zechariah 2:4; Zechariah 8:4,5; 10:8 I will 33:9; Isaiah 60:19; 62:2,3; Zephaniah 3:19,20; Zechariah 9:13-17; 12:8; John 17:22; 1 Peter 1:7

Verse 20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.

children 32:39; Genesis 17:5-9; Psalms 90:16,17; 102:18,28; Isaiah 1:26,27 and I 16; 2:3; 50:33,34; Isaiah 49:26; 51:22

Verse 21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.

nobles Genesis 49:10; Ezra 2:2; 7:25,26; Nehemiah 2:9,10; 7:2 governor 23:5,6; 33:15; Deuteronomy 18:18; 33:5; 2 Samuel 7:13; Psalms 89:29; 110:1-4; Isaiah 9:6,7; Ezekiel 34:23,24; 37:24; Micah 5:2-4; Zechariah 9:9,10; Matthew 2:2; Matthew 21:5-11; 27:37; Mark 11:9,10; Luke 1:32,33; John 18:36,37; 19:19-22; Acts 2:34-36; 5:31; Revelation 19:16 and I Numbers 16:5,40; 17:12,13; Psalms 110:4; Zechariah 6:12,13; Matthew 3:17; Luke 24:26; Romans 8:34; Hebrews 1:3; 4:14-16; 7:21-26; 9:15-24; 1 John 2:2; Revelation 5:9,10 for 49:19; 50:44; Isaiah 63:1 engaged Genesis 18:27,30,32; Job 23:3-5; 42:3-6; Hebrews 7:26; 9:24

Verse 22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

24:7; 31:1,33; Deuteronomy 26:17-19; Song of Solomon 2:16; Ezekiel 11:20; 36:28; 37:27; Hosea 2:23; Zechariah 13:9; Matthew 22:32; Hebrews 8:10; Revelation 21:3

Verse 23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.

the whirlwind 23:19,20; 25:32; Psalms 58:9; Proverbs 1:27; Zechariah 9:14 continuing Heb. cutting. fall. or, remain.

Verse 24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.

fierce 4:28; 1 Samuel 3:12; Job 23:13,14; Isaiah 14:24,26,27; 46:11; Ezekiel 20:47,48; Ezekiel 21:5-7 in 23:20; 48:47; 49:39; Genesis 49:1; Numbers 24:14; Deuteronomy 4:30; 31:29; Ezekiel 38:16; Daniel 2:28; 10:14; Hosea 3:5; Micah 4:1

31 Chapter 31

Introduction

1 The restoration of Israel.

10 The publication thereof.

15 Rahel mourning is comforted.

18 Ephraim repenting is brought home again.

22 Christ is promised.

27 His care over the church.

31 His new covenant.

35 The stability,

38 and amplitude of the church.

Verse 1 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

same 30:24 will 33; 30:22; 32:38; Genesis 17:7,8; Leviticus 26:12; Psalms 48:14; 144:15; Isaiah 41:10; Ezekiel 11:20; 34:31; 36:28; 39:22; Zechariah 13:9; John 20:17; Hebrews 12:16

of 3:18; 23:6; 30:3,10; 33:7,14,24-26; 50:4; Isaiah 11:12,13; Ezekiel 37:16-27; Hosea 1:11; Zechariah 10:6,7; Romans 11:26-29

Verse 2 Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

The people Exodus 1:16,22; 2:23; 5:21; 12:37; 14:8-12; 15:9,10; 17:8-13 found 2:2; Deuteronomy 1:30,33; 2:7; 8:2,3,16; Nehemiah 9:12-15; Psalms 78:14-16,23-29,52; Psalms 105:37-43; 136:16-24; Isaiah 63:7-14; Ezekiel 20:14-17 when Numbers 10:33; Deuteronomy 12:9; Psalms 95:11; Isaiah 63:14; Matthew 11:28; Hebrews 4:8,9

Verse 3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

of old Heb. from afar. I have. Deuteronomy 7:7-9; 10:15; 33:3,26; Hosea 11:1; Malachi 1:2; Romans 9:13; 1 John 4:19 an Psalms 103:17; Isaiah 45:17; 54:8,9; Romans 11:28,29; 2 Thessalonians 2:13-16; 2 Timothy 1:9 with loving-kindness have I drawn or, have I extended loving-kindness unto. Song of Solomon 1:4; Hosea 11:4; John 6:44,45; Romans 8:30; Ephesians 1:3-5; 2:4,5; Titus 3:3-6; James 1:18; 1 Peter 1:3

Verse 4 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

build 1:10; 30:18; 33:7; Psalms 51:18; 69:35; Amos 9:11; Acts 15:16; Ephesians 2:20-22; Revelation 21:10-27 O 21; 14:17; 18:13; 2 Kings 19:21; Isaiah 37:22; Lamentations 1:15; 2:13; Amos 5:2 again 13; Exodus 15:20,21; Judges 11:34; 1 Samuel 18:6,7; Psalms 149:3; 150:3-6; Luke 15:23; Revelation 19:1-8 tabrets or, timbrels.

Verse 5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.

yet Deuteronomy 28:30; Isaiah 62:8,9; 65:21,22; Amos 9:14; Micah 4:4; Zechariah 3:10 mountains Ezekiel 36:8; Obadiah 1:19 eat Heb. profane. Leviticus 19:23-25; Deuteronomy 20:6; 28:30; 1 Samuel 21:5

Verse 6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.

a day 6:17; Isaiah 40:9; 52:7,8; 62:6; Ezekiel 3:17; 33:2; Hosea 9:8 upon 50:19; 2 Chronicles 13:4; 30:5-11; Acts 8:5-8 Arise 50:4,5; Ezra 1:5; 8:15-20; Isaiah 2:2-4; 11:11-13; Hosea 1:11; Micah 4:1-3; Zechariah 8:20-23

Verse 7

For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.

Sing Deuteronomy 32:43; Psalms 67:1; 96:1-3; 98:1-4; 117:1,2; 138:4,5; Isaiah 12:4-6; Isaiah 24:14-16; 42:10-12; 44:23; Zephaniah 3:14-20 O Psalms 14:7; 28:9; 69:35; 106:47; Hosea 1:7 remnant 23:3; Isaiah 1:9; 11:11; 37:4,31; Ezekiel 6:8; Joel 2:32; Amos 5:15; Micah 2:12; Micah 7:18; Zephaniah 2:9; 3:13; Romans 9:27; 11:5

Verse 8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.

I 3:12; 23:8; 29:14; Psalms 107:3; Zechariah 2:6 the coasts Psalms 65:5; 98:3; Isaiah 43:6; 45:22; 52:10; Ezekiel 20:34,41; 34:13 them the Isaiah 40:11; 42:16; Ezekiel 34:16; Micah 4:6; Zephaniah 3:19; Matthew 12:20; John 21:15; 1 Corinthians 8:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; Hebrews 4:15; 12:12

Verse 9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

come 3:4; 50:4; Psalms 126:5,6; Hosea 12:4; Zechariah 12:10; Daniel 9:17,18; Matthew 5:4; Luke 6:21; Romans 8:26; 2 Corinthians 7:9-11; Hebrews 5:7 supplications or, favours. I will. Psalms 23:2; Isaiah 35:6-8; 41:17-19; 43:16-19; 49:9-11; Revelation 7:17 in a

Isaiah 40:3,4; 57:14; 63:13; Matthew 3:3; Luke 3:4-6; Hebrews 12:13 for I 20; 3:4,19; Exodus 4:22; Deuteronomy 32:6; 1 Chronicles 29:10; Isaiah 63:16; 64:8; Matthew 6:9; 2 Corinthians 6:18; Hebrews 12:23 Ephraim Ezekiel 34:12-14

Verse 10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.

declare Genesis 10:5; Psalms 72:10; Isaiah 24:14; 41:1; 42:4,10; 60:9; 66:19; Zephaniah 2:11 He 50:17; Deuteronomy 30:4; 32:26; Isaiah 27:12; 40:11; 54:7; Ezekiel 5:2,10; 11:16; Ezekiel 20:34; Micah 2:12; 4:6; Zephaniah 3:19; John 11:52 and keep Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:12; 37:24; Micah 5:4; Zechariah 9:16; Luke 12:32; John 10:27; Acts 20:28,29

Verse 11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.

redeemed 15:21; 50:33; Isaiah 44:23; 48:20; 49:24; Hosea 13:14; Matthew 20:28; Titus 2:14; Hebrews 2:14,15 stronger Psalms 142:6; Matthew 12:29; 22:29; Luke 11:21,22

Verse 12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

Therefore

4; 33:9-11; Isaiah 12:1-6; 35:10; 51:11 the height Isaiah 2:2-5; Ezekiel 17:23; 20:40; Micah 4:1,2 and shall 33:9; Psalms 130:4; Hosea 3:5; Romans 2:4 wheat Hosea 2:20-23; Joel 3:18; Zechariah 9:15-17 and their Isaiah 1:30; 58:11 and they Isaiah 35:10; 60:20; 65:19; John 16:22; Revelation 7:17; 21:4

Verse 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

shall 4; Nehemiah 12:27,43; Psalms 30:11; 149:3; Zechariah 8:4,5,19 for Ezra 6:22; Esther 9:22; Isaiah 35:10; 51:3,11; 60:20; 61:3; 65:18,19; John 16:22

Verse 14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.

satiate Deuteronomy 33:8-11; 2 Chronicles 6:41; Nehemiah 10:39; Psalms 132:9,16; Isaiah 61:6; 1 Peter 2:9; Revelation 5:10 my people 25; 33:9; Psalms 17:15; 36:8; 63:5; 65:4; 107:9; Song of Solomon 5:1; Isaiah 25:6; Isaiah 55:1-3; 66:10-14; Zechariah 9:15-17; Matthew 5:6; Ephesians 1:3; 3:19; Revelation 7:16,17

Verse 15 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her

children, because they were not. A.# Eze 2:10 Mt 2:16 Ramah 40:1; Joshua 18:25; 1 Samuel 7:17; Matthew 2:18 Rama refused Genesis 37:35; Psalms 77:2; Isaiah 22:4 because Genesis 42:13,36; Job 7:21; Psalms 37:36; Lamentations 5:7

Verse 16 Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

Refrain Genesis 43:31; 45:1; Psalms 30:5; Mark 5:38,39; John 20:13-15; 1 Thessalonians 4:14 for Ruth 2:12; 2 Chronicles 15:7; Ecclesiastes 9:7; Hebrews 6:10; 11:6 they 4,5; 23:3; 29:14; 30:3,18; 33:7,11; Ezra 1:5-11; Ezekiel 11:17,18; Ezekiel 20:41,42; Hosea 1:11

Verse 17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.

29:11-16; 46:27,28; Psalms 102:13,14; Isaiah 6:13; 11:11-16; Lamentations 3:18,21,26; Ezekiel 37:11-14,25; 39:28; Hosea 2:15; 3:5; Amos 9:8,9; Matthew 24:22; Romans 11:23-26

Verse 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.

surely Job 33:27,28; Psalms 102:19,20; Isaiah 57:15-18; Hosea 5:15; 6:1,2; Luke

15:20 Ephraim 6,9; 3:21,22; 50:4,5; Hosea 11:8,9; 14:4-8 Thou hast 2:30; 5:3; Job 5:17; Psalms 39:8,9; 94:12; 119:75; Proverbs 3:11; Isaiah 1:5; Isaiah 9:13; 57:17; Hosea 5:12,13; Zephaniah 3:2; Hebrews 12:5; Revelation 3:19 as a Psalms 32:9; Proverbs 26:3; 29:1; Isaiah 51:20; 53:7; Lamentations 3:27-30; Hosea 10:11 turn 17:14; Psalms 80:3,7,19; 85:4; Lamentations 5:21; Malachi 4:6; Luke 1:17; Acts 3:26; Philippians 2:13; James 1:16-18 for 3:22,25; Isaiah 63:16

Verse 19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

Surely after Deuteronomy 30:2,6-8; Ezekiel 36:26,31; Zechariah 12:10; Luke 15:17-19; John 6:44,45; Ephesians 2:3-5; 2 Timothy 2:25; Titus 3:3-7 I smote Ezekiel 21:12; Luke 18:13; 2 Corinthians 7:10,11 I was ashamed 3:25; Leviticus 26:41,42; Ezra 9:6; Ezekiel 6:9; 16:61-63; 20:43,44; 36:31; Romans 6:21 I did 3:25; 22:21; 32:30; Job 13:26; 20:11; Psalms 25:7; Isaiah 54:4; Ezekiel 23:3; Luke 15:30

Verse 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

Is Ephraim 9; 3:19; Psalms 103:13; Proverbs 3:12; Luke 15:24,32 for Deuteronomy 32:36; Judges 10:16; Isaiah 57:16-18; Lamentations 3:31,32; Hosea 11:8,9 my bowels Genesis 43:30; 1 Kings 3:26; Song of Solomon 5:4; Philippians 1:8 are troubled Heb. sound. 48:36; Isaiah 16:11; 63:15 I will Isaiah 55:7; 57:18; Hosea 14:4; Micah 7:18,19

Verse 21 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.

Set thee Isaiah 57:14; 62:10 set thine 50:5; Deuteronomy 32:46; 1 Chronicles 29:3; 2 Chronicles 11:16; 20:3; Psalms 62:10; 84:5; Proverbs 24:32; *marg:; Ezekiel 40:4; Haggai 1:5; *marg: turn 51:6,50; Isaiah 48:20; 52:11,12; Zechariah 2:6,7 O 4; 3:14; Zechariah 10:9

Verse 22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.

How 2:18,23,36; 4:14; 13:27; Hosea 8:5 backsliding 3:6,8,11,12,14,22; 7:24; 8:4-6; 14:7; 49:4; Hosea 4:16; 11:7; 14:4; Zechariah 7:11

created Numbers 16:30 A woman [n@qebah (hbqn)] 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." Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:21; Luke 1:34,35; Galatians 4:4

Verse 23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.

As 23:5-8; 33:15-26; Isaiah 1:26; 60:21; Zechariah 8:3 The Lord Ruth 2:4; Psalms 28:9; 122:5-8; 128:5; 129:8; 134:3 O 50:7; Isaiah 1:21 and mountain Psalms 48:1,2; 87:1-3; Obadiah 1:17; Micah 4:1; Zechariah 8:3

Verse 24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.

33:11-13; Ezekiel 36:10; Zechariah 2:4; 8:4-8

Verse 25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.

14; Psalms 107:9; Isaiah 32:2; 50:4; Matthew 5:6; 11:28; Luke 1:53; John 4:14; 2 Corinthians 7:6

Verse 26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

Psalms 127:2; Zechariah 4:1,2

Verse 27 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.

the days that I 30:19; Ezekiel 36:9; Hosea 2:23; Zechariah 10:9

Verse 28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.

that like 44:27; Daniel 9:14 to pluck 1:10; 18:7-9; 45:4 so 24:6; 32:41; Psalms 69:35; 102:16; 147:2; Ecclesiastes 3:2,3; Daniel 9:25; Amos 9:11; Acts 15:16

Verse 29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

30; Lamentations 5:7; Ezekiel 18:2,3

Verse 30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Deuteronomy 24:16; Isaiah 3:11; Ezekiel 3:18,19,24; 18:4,20; 33:8,13,18; Galatians 6:5,7,8; James 1:15

Verse 31 Behold, <I>the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

the days 27; 23:5; 30:3; 33:14-16; Amos 9:13 I 32:40; Ezekiel 37:26; Matthew 26:28; Mark 14:24; Luke 22:20; 1 Corinthians 11:25; 2 Corinthians 3:6; Hebrews 8:6-13; 9:15; 10:16,17; 12:24; 13:20 with 50:4,5; Galatians 6:16; Philippians 3:3

Verse 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

Not 1; 34:14; Exodus 19:5; 24:6-8; Deuteronomy 5:3; 29:1; 1 Kings 8:9; Ezekiel 16:8,60-62; Hebrews 9:18-22 in the Deuteronomy 1:31; Psalms 73:23; Song of Solomon 8:5; Isaiah 41:13; 63:12-14; Hosea 11:1,3,4; Mark 8:23 which 11:7-10; 22:9; Leviticus 26:15; Deuteronomy 29:21; 31:16; Isaiah 24:5; Ezekiel 16:59; Ezekiel 20:37; Hebrews 8:9 although I was or, should I have continued? 2:2; 3:14; Isaiah 54:5; Ezekiel 16:8; 23:4; Hosea 2:2; 3:1; John 3:29; 2 Corinthians 11:2

Verse 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

But this shall be the

32:40 I will Deuteronomy 30:6; Psalms 37:31; 40:8; Isaiah 51:7; Ezekiel 11:19; 36:25-27; Romans 7:22; Romans 8:2-8; 2 Corinthians 3:3,7,8; Galatians 5:22,23; Hebrews 8:10; 10:16 and will 1; 24:7; 30:22; 32:38; Genesis 17:7,8; Ezekiel 11:20; 37:27; Zechariah 13:9; John 20:17; Revelation 21:3,7

Verse 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

teach 1 Thessalonians 4:9; Hebrews 5:12; 1 John 2:27 Know the 1 Samuel 2:12; 1 Chronicles 28:9; John 17:3 for they 24:7; Isaiah 11:9; 30:26; 54:13; 60:19-21; Habakkuk 2:14; Matthew 11:27; John 6:45; John 17:6; 2 Corinthians 2:10; 4:6; 1 John 2:20; 5:20 for I 33:8; 50:20; Isaiah 33:24; 43:25; 44:22; Micah 7:18; Acts 10:43; 13:38,39; Romans 11:26,27; Ephesians 1:7; Hebrews 8:12; 10:17,18

Verse 35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:

which giveth Genesis 1:14-18; Deuteronomy 4:19; Job 38:33; Psalms 19:1-6; 72:5,17; 74:16; Psalms 89:2,36,37; 119:89; 136:7-9; Matthew 5:45 which divideth Exodus 14:21,22; Job 26:12; Psalms 74:13; 78:13; 106:9; 114:3-5; Isaiah 51:15; Isaiah 63:12 when

5:22; Job 38:10,11; Psalms 93:3,4; 107:25-29; Isaiah 51:15; Matthew 8:25,26 The Lord 10:16; 32:18; 46:18; 50:34; 51:19; Isaiah 48:2; 54:5

Verse 36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.

those 33:20-26; Psalms 72:5,17; 89:36,37; 102:28; 119:89; 148:6; Isaiah 54:9,10 cease 46:28; Deuteronomy 32:26; Amos 9:8,9

Verse 37 Thus saith the LORD; <I>If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

If 33:22; Job 11:7-9; Psalms 89:2; Proverbs 30:4; Isaiah 40:12 I 30:11; 33:24-26; 46:28; Romans 11:2-5,26-29

Verse 38 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.

the days 27; 23:5 that 30:18; Nehemiah 2:17-20; 12:30-40; Isaiah 44:28; Ezekiel 48:30-35; Daniel 9:25 the tower Nehemiah 3:1; 12:39; Zechariah 14:10 the gate 2 Kings 14:13; 2 Chronicles 26:9

Verse 39

And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.

Ezekiel 40:8; Zechariah 2:1,2

Verse 40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.

the whole 7:32; 19:11-13; 32:36; Ezekiel 37:2 the brook 2 Samuel 15:23; 2 Kings 23:6,12; John 18:1 Cedron unto 2 Kings 11:16; 2 Chronicles 23:15; Nehemiah 3:28 shall be Ezekiel 45:1-6; 48:35; Joel 3:17; Zechariah 14:20 it shall 18:7; Isaiah 51:22; Ezekiel 37:25; 39:29

32 Chapter 32

Introduction

1 Jeremiah, being imprisoned by Zedekiah for his prophecy,

6 buys Hanameel's field.

13 Baruch must preserve the evidences, as tokens of the people's return.

16 Jeremiah in his prayer complains to God.

26 God confirms the captivity for their sins;

36 and promises a gracious return.

Verse 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah

king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. A. M. 3415. B.C. 589. in the 39:1,2; 52:4,5; 2 Kings 25:1,2; 2 Chronicles 36:11 the eighteenth 25:1

Verse 2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.

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 3,8; 33:1; 36:5; 37:21; 38:6; 39:13-15; Matthew 5:12 in the Nehemiah 3:25

Verse 3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

Zedekiah 2:30; 5:3; 2 Kings 6:31,32; 2 Chronicles 28:22 Wherefore 26:8,9; 38:4; Exodus 5:4; Amos 7:13; Luke 20:2; Acts 6:12-14 Behold 28,29; 21:4-7; 27:8; 34:2,3; 37:6-10; 38:8

Verse 4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;

37:17; 38:18,23; 39:4-7; 52:8-11; 2 Kings 25:4-7; Ezekiel 12:12,13; Ezekiel

17:13-21; 21:25,26

Verse 5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.

until 27:22; 34:4,5 though 2:37; 21:4,5; 33:5; 37:10; Numbers 14:41; 2 Chronicles 13:12; 24:20; Proverbs 21:30; Ezekiel 17:9,10,15

Verse 7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.

Behold 1 Kings 14:5; Mark 11:2-6; 14:13-16 Anathoth 1:1; 11:21; Joshua 21:18,19 for Leviticus 25:23,34,49; Numbers 35:2; Ruth 4:4-9

Verse 8 So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

court 2; 33:1 Anathoth 7; 1 Kings 2:26; 1 Chronicles 6:60 Then I 1 Samuel 9:16,17; 10:3-7; 1 Kings 22:25; Zechariah 11:11; John 4:53; Acts 10:17-28 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 2£. 2s. 6d.

Verse 9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

weighed Genesis 23:15,16; 1 Kings 20:39; Esther 3:9; Isaiah 55:2; *margins seventeen shekels of silver or, seven shekels, and ten pieces of silver. Genesis 37:28; Hosea 3:2; Zechariah 11:12,13

Verse 10 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.

I 12,44; Isaiah 44:5 subscribed the evidence Heb. wrote in the book. Joshua 18:9; Isaiah 30:8 and sealed Deuteronomy 32:34; Job 14:17; Song of Solomon 8:6; Daniel 8:26; John 3:33; 6:27; 2 Corinthians 1:22; Ephesians 1:13; 4:30; Revelation 7:2; 9:4 and took 12,25,44; Ruth 4:9-11; Isaiah 8:1,2

Verse 11 So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to

the law and custom, and that which was open: according Luke 2:27; Acts 26:3; 1 Corinthians 11:16

Verse 12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.

Baruch 16; 36:4,5,16-19,26; 43:3-6; 45:1-5 Neriah 51:59 and in 2 Corinthians 8:21

Verse 14 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.

Take

Verse 15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.

Houses 37,43,44; 30:18; 31:5,12,24; 33:12,13; Amos 9:14,15; Zechariah 3:10

Verse 16 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,

I Prayed 12:1; Genesis 32:9-12; 2 Samuel 7:18-25; Ezekiel 36:35-37; Philippians 4:6,7

Verse 17

Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:

Ah 1:6; 4:10; 14:13; Ezekiel 9:8; 11:13 thou 10:11,12; 27:5; 51:15,19; Genesis 1:1-31; Exodus 20:11; 2 Kings 19:15; Nehemiah 9:6; Psalms 102:25; 136:5-9; 146:5,6; Isaiah 40:26-28; 42:5; 44:24; 45:12; Isaiah 48:12,13; Zechariah 12:1; John 1:1-3; Acts 7:49,50; 14:15; 17:24; Colossians 1:15,16; Hebrews 1:2,3,10-12; Revelation 4:11 there 27; Genesis 18:14; Job 42:2; Luke 1:37; 18:27 to hard for thee or, hid from thee. Isaiah 46:9,10; Daniel 2:22; Acts 15:18; Ephesians 3:9-11

Verse 18 Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name,

shewest Exodus 20:5,6; 34:7; Numbers 14:18; Deuteronomy 5:9,10; 7:9,10 recompensest Joshua 7:24-26; 2 Samuel 21:1-9; 1 Kings 14:9,10; 16:1-3; 21:21-24; 2 Kings 9:26; Matthew 23:32-36; 27:25 the Great Genesis 49:24; Deuteronomy 7:21; 10:17; Nehemiah 1:5; Psalms 50:1; 145:3-6; Isaiah 9:6; 10:21; Isaiah 57:15; Habakkuk 1:12 the Lord 10:16; 31:35

Verse 19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

Great Isaiah 9:6; 28:29; 40:13; 46:10,11; Romans 11:33,34; Ephesians 1:11

work Heb. doing. Exodus 15:11; Daniel 4:35 for 16:17; 23:24; 2 Chronicles 16:9; Job 34:21; Psalms 33:13-15; 34:15; Proverbs 5:21; Hebrews 4:13 to give 17:10; 1 Kings 8:32; Psalms 62:12; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Matthew 16:27; John 5:29; Romans 2:6-10; 2 Corinthians 5:10; Revelation 2:23; 22:12

Verse 20 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day;

hast set Exodus 7:3; 10:2; Deuteronomy 4:34; 6:22; 7:19; Nehemiah 9:10; Psalms 78:43-51; 105:27-36; Psalms 135:9; Acts 7:36 and hast Exodus 9:16; 2 Samuel 7:23; 1 Chronicles 17:21; Nehemiah 9:10; Isaiah 63:12; Daniel 9:15

Verse 21 And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;

brought Exodus 6:6; 13:14; Psalms 105:37,43; 106:8-11 with a strong Exodus 6:1; 13:9; Deuteronomy 26:8; 1 Kings 8:42; Psalms 89:8-10; 136:11,12

Verse 22 And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

which Genesis 13:15; 15:18-21; 17:7,8; 24:7; 28:13-15; 35:11,12; 50:24; Exodus 13:5; Numbers 14:16,30; Deuteronomy 1:8,35; 6:10,18,23; 7:13; 8:1;

Joshua 1:6; 21:43; Nehemiah 9:15; Psalms 105:9-11 a land 11:5; Exodus 3:8,17; 13:5; 33:1-3; Deuteronomy 26:9-11; Ezekiel 20:6,15

Verse 23 And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them:

possessed Nehemiah 9:15,22-25; Psalms 44:2,3; 78:54,55; 105:44,45 but 7:23,24; 11:7,8; Judges 2:11-13; 10:6-18; Ezra 9:7; Nehemiah 9:26-30; Ezekiel 20:8,18,21; Daniel 9:4-6,10-14; Zechariah 1:2-4 they have Luke 17:10; John 15:14; Galatians 3:10; James 2:10 therefore Leviticus 26:14-46; Deuteronomy 28:15-68; Joshua 23:16; Ezra 9:7; Lamentations 1:8,18; 5:16,17; Daniel 9:11,12

Verse 24 Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.

mounts or, engines of shot. 33:4; Ezekiel 21:22; 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; 20:15. the city is 3,25,36; 21:4-7; 37:6-10 because 14:12-15; 15:1-3; 16:4; 24:10; 52:6; Lamentations 2:21,22; 4:3-10; Ezekiel 14:21 what Deuteronomy 4:26; 31:16,17; 32:24,25; Joshua 23:15,16; Zechariah 1:6;

Matthew 24:35

Verse 25 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

thou for or, though. 24; Psalms 77:19; 97:2; John 13:7; Romans 11:33,34

Verse 27 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?

God Numbers 16:22; 27:16; Psalms 65:2; Isaiah 64:8; Luke 3:6; John 17:2; Romans 3:29,30 is 17; Matthew 19:26

Verse 28 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:

Behold 3,24,36; 19:7-12; 20:5

Verse 29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.

and set 17:27; 21:10; 27:8-10; 37:7-10; 39:8; 52:13; 2 Kings 25:9; 2 Chronicles 36:19; Isaiah 64:10,11; Lamentations 4:11; Matthew 22:7 upon 7:18; 19:13; 44:17-19,25

Verse 30

For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.

children 2:7; 3:25; 7:22-26; Deuteronomy 9:7-12,22-24; 2 Kings 17:9-20; Nehemiah 9:16-37; Psalms 106:6,7; Isaiah 63:10; Ezekiel 16:15-22; 20:8,28; 23:43,44; Acts 7:51-53 from 22:21; Genesis 8:21; Ezekiel 23:3

Verse 31 For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,

this city 5:9-11; 6:6,7; 23:14,15; 1 Kings 11:7,8; 2 Kings 21:4-7,16; 22:16,17; 2 Kings 23:15; Ezekiel 22:2-22; Matthew 23:37; Luke 13:33,34 a provocation of mine anger Heb. for my anger. that I. 27:10; 2 Kings 23:27; 24:3,4; Lamentations 1:8

Verse 32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

they 2:26; Ezra 9:7; Nehemiah 9:32-34; Isaiah 1:4-6,23; 9:14,15; Ezekiel 22:6,25-29; Daniel 9:6,8; Micah 3:1-5,9-12; Zephaniah 3:1-4

Verse 33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.

turned 2:27; 7:24; 18:17; Ezekiel 8:16; Hosea 11:2; Zechariah 7:11

back Heb. neck. rising. 7:13; 25:3,4; 26:5; 35:15; 44:4; 2 Chronicles 36:15,16; John 8:2

Verse 34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.

7:30; 23:11; 2 Kings 21:4-7; 23:6; 2 Chronicles 33:4-7,15; Ezekiel 8:5-16

Verse 35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

they built 7:31; 19:5,6; 2 Kings 23:10; 2 Chronicles 28:2,3; 33:6; Psalms 106:37,38; Isaiah 57:5; Ezekiel 16:20,21; 23:37 which 7:31; Leviticus 18:21; 20:2-5; Deuteronomy 18:10; 1 Kings 11:33 to cause Exodus 32:21; Deuteronomy 24:4; 1 Kings 14:16; 15:26,30; 16:19; 21:22; 2 Kings 3:3; 21:11; 2 Kings 23:15; 2 Chronicles 33:9

Verse 36 And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;

now 16:12-15; Isaiah 43:24,25; 57:17,18; Ezekiel 36:31,32; Hosea 2:14; Romans 5:20; Ephesians 2:3-5 It 3,24,28

Verse 37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this

place, and I will cause them to dwell safely: 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. 23:3,8; 29:14; 30:18; 31:10; 33:7; Deuteronomy 30:3-6; Psalms 106:47; Isaiah 11:11-16; Ezekiel 11:17; 34:12-14; 36:24; 37:21-25; 39:25-29; Hosea 1:11; 3:5; Amos 9:14,15; Obadiah 1:17-21; Zephaniah 3:20 I will cause 23:6; 33:16; Ezekiel 34:25-28; Joel 3:20; Zechariah 2:4,5; 3:10; 14:11

Verse 38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:

24:7; 30:22; 31:1,33; Genesis 17:7; Deuteronomy 26:17-19; Psalms 144:15; Ezekiel 11:19,20; Ezekiel 36:28; 37:27; 39:22,28; Zechariah 13:9; Hebrews 8:10; 11:16; Revelation 21:7

Verse 39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

I 2 Chronicles 30:12; Isaiah 52:8; Ezekiel 11:19,20; 36:26; 37:22; John 17:21; Acts 4:32; 2 Corinthians 13:11; Philippians 2:1,2 one way 6:16; Isaiah 35:8; John 14:6; Hebrews 10:20 they may 40; Genesis 22:12; Psalms 112:1; Proverbs 14:26,27; 23:17; Acts 9:31 for every Heb. all days. for the. Genesis 17:7; 18:19; Deuteronomy 5:29; 11:18-21; Psalms 115:13-15; 128:6; Ezekiel 37:25; Acts 2:39; 3:26; 13:33; Romans 11:16; 1 Corinthians 7:14

Verse 40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

I will make 31:31-33; 50:5; Genesis 17:7-13; 2 Samuel 23:4; Isaiah 24:5; 55:3; 61:8; Luke 1:72-75; Galatians 3:14-17; Hebrews 6:13-18; 7:24; 13:20 that I Ezekiel 39:29; John 10:27-30; Romans 8:28-39 from them Heb. from after them. but I. 31:33; Ezekiel 36:26; Hebrews 4:1; James 1:17; 1 Peter 1:5

Verse 41 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

Yea, I Deuteronomy 30:9; Isaiah 62:5; 65:19; Zephaniah 3:17 and I 18:9; 24:6; 31:28; Amos 9:15 assuredly Heb. in truth, or stability. Hosea 2:19,20

Verse 42 For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.

Like 31:28; Joshua 23:14,15; Zechariah 8:14,15; Matthew 24:35 so 33:10,11

Verse 43 And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

36; Ezekiel 37:11-14

Verse 44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.

buy in the land 17:26 for I 37; 33:7,11,26; Psalms 126:1-4; 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.

33 Chapter 33

Introduction

1 God promises to the captivity a gracious return;

9 a joyful state;

12 a settled government;

15 Christ the branch of righteousness;

17 a continuance of kingdom and priesthood;

19 and a stability of a blessed seed.

Verse 1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

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 he 32:2,3,8; 37:21; 38:28; 2 Timothy 2:9

Verse 2 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;

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." Psalms 87:5; 102:16; Isaiah 14:32; 37:26; 43:1,21; 62:7; Hebrews 11:10,16; Revelation 21:2,10 the Lord or, Jehovah. 32:18; Exodus 3:14,15; 6:3; 15:3; Amos 5:8; 9:6

Verse 3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

Call 29:12; Deuteronomy 4:7,29; 1 Kings 8:47-50; Psalms 50:15; 91:15; 145:18; Isaiah 55:6,7; Isaiah 65:24; Joel 2:32; Luke 11:9,10; Acts 2:21; Romans 10:12,13; 1 Corinthians 1:2 shew Micah 7:15; Ephesians 3:20 mighty Heb. hidden. Psalms 25:14; Isaiah 45:3; 48:6; Amos 3:7; Matthew 13:35; 1 Corinthians 2:7-11; Revelation 2:17

Verse 4 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city,

and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;

thrown 32:24; Ezekiel 4:2; 21:22; 26:8; Habakkuk 1:10

Verse 5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.

come 21:4-7; 32:5; 37:9,10 I have hid 18:17; 21:10; Deuteronomy 31:17; 32:20; Isaiah 1:15,16; 8:17; 64:7; Ezekiel 39:23; Ezekiel 39:24,29; Micah 3:4

Verse 6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

I will bring 17:14; 30:12-17; Deuteronomy 32:39; Psalms 67:2; Isaiah 30:26; 58:8; Hosea 6:1; 7:1 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. and will Exodus 34:6; Psalms 37:11; 72:7; 85:10-12; Isaiah 2:4; 11:5-9; 26:2-4; 30:26; Isaiah 33:15-18; 39:8; 48:17,18; 54:13; 55:7; 66:12; Micah 4:3; John 10:10; Galatians 5:22,23; Ephesians 6:23; Titus 3:5,6; Hebrews 6:17,18; 1 Peter 1:3

Verse 7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

will cause 11,26; 23:3; 29:14; 30:3; 32:44; Psalms 14:7; 85:1; 126:1,4; Isaiah 11:12-

16; Zephaniah 3:20 and will 24:6; 30:20; 31:4,28; 42:10; Isaiah 1:26; Hosea 2:15; Amos 9:14,15; Micah 7:14,15; Zechariah 1:17

Verse 8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.

31:34; 50:20; Psalms 51:2; 65:3; 85:2,3; Isaiah 4:2; 44:22; 56:7; Ezekiel 36:25,33; Joel 3:21; Micah 7:18,19; Zechariah 13:1; Hebrews 9:11-14; 1 John 1:7-9; Revelation 1:5

Verse 9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.

a name 13:11; 31:4; Psalms 126:2,3; Isaiah 62:2,3,7,12; Zephaniah 3:17-20; Zechariah 8:20-23 before 26:6; 29:1; 44:8 fear Exodus 15:14-16; 2 Chronicles 20:29; Nehemiah 6:16; Esther 8:17; Psalms 40:3; Isaiah 60:5; Hosea 3:5; Micah 7:16,17; Zechariah 12:2

Verse 10 Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,

which ye 32:36; Ezekiel 37:11

Verse 11

The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.

voice of joy 7:34; 16:9; 25:10; John 3:29; Revelation 18:23 the voice of them 31:12-14; Ezra 3:11-13; 6:22; Nehemiah 8:12; 12:43; Isaiah 12:1-6; 51:11; Isaiah 52:9; Zephaniah 3:14; Zechariah 8:19; 9:17; 10:7 Praise the 1 Chronicles 16:8,34; 2 Chronicles 5:13; 7:3; 20:21; Ezra 3:11; Psalms 106:1; 107:1; Psalms 118:1-4; 136:1-26 sacrifice Leviticus 7:12,13; 2 Chronicles 29:31; Psalms 107:22; 116:17; Jonah 2:9; Hebrews 13:15 For I 7,26

Verse 12 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

without 32:43; 36:29; 51:62 in all 17:26; 31:24; 32:44; 50:19,20; Isaiah 65:10; Ezekiel 34:12-14; 36:8-11; Obadiah 1:19,20; Zephaniah 2:6,7

Verse 13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.

shall Leviticus 27:32; Luke 15:4; John 10:3,4

Verse 14 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.

23:5; 29:10; 31:27,31-34; 32:38-41; Genesis 22:18; 49:10; 1 Chronicles 17:13,14; Isaiah 7:14; 9:6,7; 32:1,2; Ezekiel 34:23-25; Daniel 2:44; 7:13,14; 9:25; Amos 9:11; Micah 5:2; Zephaniah 3:15-17; Haggai 2:6-9; Zechariah 9:9,10; Malachi 3:1; Luke 1:69,70; 2:10,11; 10:24; Acts 13:32,33; 2 Corinthians 1:20; Hebrews 11:40; 1 Peter 1:10; Revelation 19:10

Verse 15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.

the Branch 23:5,6; Isaiah 4:2; 11:1-5; 53:2; Ezekiel 17:22,23; Zechariah 3:8; 6:12,13 and he 2 Samuel 23:2,3; Psalms 45:4,7; 72:1-5; Isaiah 9:7; 11:2-5; 32:1,2; 42:21; John 5:22-29; Hebrews 1:8,9; 7:1,2; Revelation 19:11

Verse 16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.

shall Judah 23:6; Isaiah 45:17,22; Romans 11:26 shall dwell 32:37; Deuteronomy 33:12,28; Ezekiel 28:26; 34:25-28; 38:8 The Lord our righteousness JEHOVAH-tsidkenu. 23:6; Isaiah 45:24,25; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 3:9; 2 Peter 1:1

Verse 17 For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

David shall never want

Heb. There shall not be cut off from David. 35:19; 2 Samuel 3:29; 7:14-16; 1 Kings 2:4; 8:25; *marg:; 1 Chronicles 17:11-14,27; Psalms 89:29-37; Isaiah 9:7; Luke 1:32,33

Verse 18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

Isaiah 56:7; 61:6; Ezekiel 43:19-27; 44:9-11; 45:5; Romans 1:21; 15:16; Hebrews 13:15,16; 1 Peter 2:5,9; Revelation 1:6; 5:10

Verse 20 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;

25,26; 31:35,36; Genesis 8:22; Psalms 89:37; 104:19-23; Isaiah 54:9,10

Verse 21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

may 2 Samuel 23:5; 2 Chronicles 7:18; 21:7; Psalms 89:34; 132:11,12,17; Isaiah 55:3; Matthew 24:35; Luke 1:69,70 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. Isaiah 9:6,7; Daniel 7:14; Luke 1:32,33 and with

18; Revelation 5:10

Verse 22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.

the host 31:37; Genesis 13:16; 15:5; 22:17; 28:14; Hosea 1:10; Hebrews 11:12; Revelation 7:9,10 so Psalms 22:30; 89:3,4,29; Isaiah 53:10-12; Ezekiel 37:24-27; Zechariah 12:8 the Levites Isaiah 66:21; Ezekiel 44:15

Verse 24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

The two 21,22; Psalms 94:14; Romans 11:1-6 thus Nehemiah 4:2-4; Esther 3:6-8; Psalms 44:13,14; 71:11; 83:4; 123:3,4; Lamentations 2:15,16; Lamentations 4:15; Ezekiel 25:3; 26:2; 35:10-15; 36:2

Verse 25 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

If my 20; Genesis 8:22; 9:9-17 and if 31:35,36; Psalms 74:16,17; 104:19

Verse 26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not

take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

will I 31:37; Genesis 49:10 I will 7-11; Ezra 2:1,70 and have 31:20; Isaiah 14:1; 54:8; Ezekiel 39:25; Hosea 1:7; 2:23; Zechariah 10:6; Romans 11:32

34 Chapter 34

Introduction

1 Jeremiah prophesies the captivity of Zedekiah and the city.

8 The princes and the people having dismissed their bond-servants, contrary to the covenant of God, re-assume them.

12 Jeremiah, for their disobedience, gives them and Zedekiah into the hands of their enemies.

Verse 1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying,

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 when 7; 32:2; 39:1-3; 52:4-11; 2 Kings 25:1-9; 2 Chronicles 36:12-17 all the kingdoms 1:15; 27:5-7; Daniel 2:37,38; 4:1,22; 5:19 of his dominion

Heb. the dominion of his hand.

Verse 2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:

Go 22:1,2; 37:1-4; 2 Chronicles 36:11,12 Behold 22; 21:4,10; 32:3,28,29; 37:8-10; 38:23; 39:8

Verse 3 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.

And thou 21; 21:7; 32:4; 37:17; 38:18; 39:4,5; 52:7-9; 2 Kings 25:4,5 and thine 39:6,7; 52:10,11; 2 Kings 25:6,7; Ezekiel 12:13; 17:18-20; 21:25 he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth Heb. his mouth shall speak to thy mouth.

Verse 5 But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.

But thou 2 Kings 22:20; 2 Chronicles 34:28; Ezekiel 17:16 and with 2 Chronicles 16:14; 21:19 so Daniel 2:46 and they 22:18; 2 Chronicles 21:20; Lamentations 4:20

Verse 6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

1 Samuel 3:18; 15:16-24; 2 Samuel 12:7-12; 1 Kings 21:19; 22:14; Ezekiel 2:7; Matthew 14:4; Acts 20:27

Verse 7 When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.

fought against 1; 4:5; 8:14; 11:12; Deuteronomy 28:52 Lachish Joshua 10:3,11; 12:11; 15:35,39; 2 Kings 18:13,14; 19:8; Micah 1:13 for 2 Chronicles 11:5-10; 27:4

Verse 8 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;

had 2 Kings 11:17; 23:2,3; 2 Chronicles 15:12-15; 23:16; 29:10; 34:30-33; Nehemiah 9:38; Nehemiah 10:1-27 to proclaim 14,17; Exodus 21:2-4; 23:10,11; Leviticus 25:10,39-46; Deuteronomy 15:12; Nehemiah 5:1-13; Isaiah 61:1

Verse 9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.

Hebrew Genesis 14:13; 40:15; Exodus 2:6; 3:18; Deuteronomy 15:12; 1 Samuel 4:6,9; 14:11; 2 Corinthians 11:22; Philippians 3:5 serve

10; 25:14; 27:7; 30:8; 1 Corinthians 6:8

Verse 10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.

when 26:10,16; 36:12,24,25; 38:4 then 3:10,11; Isaiah 29:13; Mark 6:20

Verse 11 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

21; 37:5; Exodus 8:8,15; 9:28,34,35; 10:17-20; 14:3-9; 1 Samuel 19:6-11; 1 Samuel 24:19; 26:21; Psalms 36:3; 78:34-36; 125:5; Proverbs 26:11; Ecclesiastes 8:11; Hosea 6:4; 7:16; Zephaniah 1:6; Matthew 12:43-45; Romans 2:4,5; 2 Peter 2:20-22

Verse 13 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,

I made 31:32; Exodus 24:3,7,8; Deuteronomy 5:2,3,27; 29:1; Hebrews 8:10,11 in the 7:22; 11:4,7; Deuteronomy 7:8; 15:15; 16:12; 24:18; Joshua 24:17; Judges 6:8 out of Exodus 13:3,14; Deuteronomy 5:6; 6:12; 8:14; 13:10; Joshua 24:17; Judges 6:8

Verse 14 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath

been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

At the 8,9; Exodus 21:1-4; 23:10,11; Deuteronomy 15:12; 1 Kings 9:22; 2 Chronicles 28:10; Isaiah 58:6; Amos 2:6; 8:6 been sold or, sold himself. 1 Kings 21:25; Isaiah 50:1; Romans 7:14-17,24 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. 7:25,26; 11:8-10; 32:30; 1 Samuel 8:7,8; 2 Kings 17:13,14; 2 Chronicles 36:16; Nehemiah 9:30; Ezekiel 20:4,8; Zechariah 7:11,12

Verse 15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

ye 1 Kings 21:27-29; 2 Kings 10:30,31; 12:2; 14:3; Isaiah 58:2; Matthew 15:8 now Heb. to-day. in proclaiming. 10,11 ye had 8; 2 Kings 23:3; Nehemiah 10:29; Psalms 76:11; 119:106 which is called by my name Heb. whereupon my name is called. 7:10,11

Verse 16

But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

ye turned 11; 1 Samuel 15:11; Ezekiel 3:20; 18:24; 33:12,13; Luke 8:13-15 polluted Exodus 20:7; Leviticus 19:12; Ezekiel 17:16-19; 20:39; 39:7; Malachi 1:7,12 and brought Matthew 18:28-34

Verse 17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

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. Leviticus 26:34,35; Deuteronomy 19:19; Judges 1:6,7; Esther 7:10; Daniel 6:24; Matthew 7:2; Luke 6:37,38; Galatians 6:7; James 2:13; Revelation 16:6 to the sword 15:2; 21:7; 24:10; 32:24,36; 47:6,7; Ezekiel 14:17-21 I will 15:4; 24:9,10; 29:18; Deuteronomy 28:25,64 to be removed Heb. for a removing. Lamentations 1:8; *marg:

Verse 18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not

performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,

have transgressed Deuteronomy 17:2; Joshua 7:11; 23:16; Hosea 6:7; 8:1 when This was the ancient mode of making a covenant. (See on De 29:12 Jos 9:7.) Genesis 15:10,17,18; Psalms 50:1

Verse 19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;

princes 10; Ezekiel 22:27-31; Daniel 9:6,8,12; Micah 7:1-5; Zephaniah 3:3,4 the eunuchs 29:2; 38:7; 2 Kings 24:12,15; *marg:

Verse 20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.

and into 4:30; 11:21; 21:7; 22:25; 38:16; 44:30; 49:37 and their 7:33; 16:4; 19:7; 1 Samuel 17:44,46; 1 Kings 14:11; 16:4; 21:23,24; 2 Kings 9:34-37; Ezekiel 29:5; 32:4; 39:17-20; Revelation 19:17-21

Verse 21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you.

Zedekiah 3-5; 39:6; 52:10,24-27; 2 Kings 25:18-21; Lamentations 4:20; Ezekiel 17:16 which are

37:5-11

Verse 22 Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.

I will command 2 Samuel 16:11; 2 Kings 24:2,3; 2 Chronicles 36:17; Isaiah 10:5-7; 13:3; 37:26; 45:1-3; Amos 3:6; Matthew 22:7 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. 37:8-10 shall fight 21:4-10; 32:29; 38:23; 39:1,2,8; 52:7,13 and I will 9:11; 33:10; 44:2-6,22; Isaiah 6:11; 24:12; 64:10; Lamentations 1:1; Ezekiel 33:27,28; Micah 7:13; Zechariah 1:12; 7:14

35 Chapter 35

Introduction

1 By the obedience of the Rechabites,

12 Jeremiah condemns the disobedience of the Jews.

18 God blesses the Rechabites for their obedience.

Verse 1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

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 in the

1:3; 22:13-19; 25:1; 26:1; 36:1,9,29; 46:2; 2 Kings 23:35; 24:1-6; 2 Chronicles 36:5-8; Daniel 1:1

Verse 2 Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.

the house 8; 2 Kings 10:15,16; 1 Chronicles 2:55 into one 4; 1 Kings 6:5,6,10; 1 Chronicles 9:26; 23:28; 2 Chronicles 3:9; 31:11; Ezra 8:29; Nehemiah 13:5,8,9; Ezekiel 40:7-13,16; 41:5-11; 42:4-13

Verse 4 And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:

into the chamber 36:10-12 a man Deuteronomy 33:1; Joshua 14:6; 1 Samuel 2:27; 9:6-8; 1 Kings 12:22; 13:1,26; 17:18,24; 1 Kings 20:28; 2 Kings 1:9,11-13; 5:14,20; 6:10; 7:2,17; 8:2-8; 23:16,17; 2 Chronicles 8:14; 25:7-9; 1 Timothy 6:11; 2 Timothy 3:17 the princes 26:10 the keeper 52:24; 2 Kings 12:9; 25:18; 1 Chronicles 9:18,19,27; 2 Chronicles 8:14; Psalms 84:10 door Heb. threshold, or vessel. Ezekiel 43:8

Verse 5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.

Drink

2; Ecclesiastes 9:7; Amos 2:12; 2 Corinthians 2:9

Verse 6 But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever:

Jonadab 2 Kings 10:15; 1 Chronicles 2:55 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. Leviticus 10:9; Numbers 6:2-5; Judges 13:7,14; Luke 1:15; 1 Corinthians 7:26-31 all 10; Genesis 25:27; Leviticus 23:42,43; Nehemiah 8:14-16; Hebrews 11:9-13; 1 Peter 2:11 that ye Genesis 36:7; Exodus 20:12; 1 Chronicles 16:19; Psalms 105:12; Ephesians 6:2,3

Verse 7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but

all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.

all 10; Genesis 25:27; Leviticus 23:42,43; Nehemiah 8:14-16; Ephesians 5:18; Hebrews 11:9-13; 1 Peter 2:11

Verse 8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;

Proverbs 1:8,9; 4:1,2,10; 6:20; 13:1; Colossians 3:20

Verse 9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

7; Numbers 16:14; 2 Kings 5:26; Psalms 37:16; 1 Timothy 6:6

Verse 10 Jeremiah href="/desk/?q=jer+35:8&sr=1">Jeremiah 35:8

Verse 11 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.

when 2 Kings 24:2; Daniel 1:1,2 Come 4:5-7; 8:14; Mark 13:14; Luke 21:20,21

Verse 13 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.

Will 5:3; 6:8-10; 9:12; 32:33; Psalms 32:8,9; Proverbs 8:10; 19:20; Isaiah 28:9-12; Isaiah 42:23; Hebrews 12:25

Verse 14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.

words rising 7:13,25; 11:7; 25:3,4; 26:5; 29:19; 32:33; 2 Chronicles 36:15,16; Proverbs 1:20-33 but ye 7:24,26; Nehemiah 9:26,30; Isaiah 30:9; 50:2

Verse 15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.

I have Luke 10:16; 1 Thessalonians 4:8 Return 3:14; 4:14; 7:3-5; 17:20-23; 18:11; 25:5; 26:13; 44:4,5; Isaiah 1:16-19; Ezekiel 18:30-32; Hosea 14:1-4; Zechariah 1:3,4; Acts 26:20 ye shall dwell 7:5-7; 17:24,25; 22:4; 25:5,6; Deuteronomy 30:20 ye have Luke 13:34,35

Verse 16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me:

14; Isaiah 1:3; Malachi 1:6; Matthew 11:28-30; Luke 15:11-13,28-30

Verse 17

Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.

Therefore God having, by the conduct of the Rechabites, convicted the Jews of ingratitude and rebellion, He now proceeds to pass sentence against them. Behold 11:8; 15:3,4; 19:7-13; 21:4-10; Genesis 6:17; Leviticus 26:14-46; Deuteronomy 28:15-68; Deuteronomy 29:19-28; 31:20,21; 32:16-42; Joshua 23:15,16; Micah 3:12 because 7:13,26,27; 26:5; 32:33; Proverbs 1:24-31; 13:13; 16:2; Isaiah 50:2; 65:12; Isaiah 66:4; Luke 13:34,35; Romans 10:21

Verse 18 And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:

Because Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16; Ephesians 6:1-3

Verse 19 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.

Jonadab, etc Heb. There shall not a man be cut off from Jonadab the son of Rechab to stand, etc. 33:17; 1 Chronicles 2:55 stand 15:19; 33:17,18; Psalms 5:5; Luke 21:36; Jude 1:24

36 Chapter 36

Introduction

1 Jeremiah causes Baruch to write his prophesy,

5 and publicly to read it.

11 The princes, having intelligence thereof by Michaiah, send Jehudi to fetch the roll and read it.

19 They will Baruch to hide himself and Jeremiah.

20 The king, Jehoiakim, being certified thereof, hears part of it, and burns the roll.

27 Jeremiah denounces his judgment.

32 Baruch writes a new copy.

Verse 1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

25:1; 35:1; 2 Kings 24:1,2

Verse 2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.

a roll 6,23,29; 30:2; 45:1; 51:60; Exodus 17:14; Deuteronomy 31:24; Ezra 6:2; Job 31:35; Psalms 40:7; Isaiah 8:1; 30:8,9; Ezekiel 2:9; 3:1-3; Habakkuk 2:2,3; Zechariah 5:1-4; Revelation 5:1-9 write 30:2; Hosea 8:12 against Israel 2:4; 3:3-10; 23:13,14; 32:30-35; 2 Kings 17:18-20 against all 1:5,10; 25:9-29; 47:1-51 from the days 1:2,3; 25:3

Verse 3

It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

may be 7; 18:8; 26:3; Deuteronomy 5:29; Ezekiel 12:3; Zephaniah 2:3; Luke 20:13; 2 Timothy 2:25,26; 2 Peter 3:9 hear Ezekiel 18:27,28; 33:7-9,14-16; Matthew 3:7-9; Luke 3:7-9 they may 18:8,11; 23:14; 24:7; 35:15; Deuteronomy 30:2,8; 1 Samuel 7:3; 1 Kings 8:48-50; 2 Chronicles 6:38,39; Nehemiah 1:9; Isaiah 55:6,7; Ezekiel 18:23; Jonah 3:8-10; Acts 26:20 that I Isaiah 6:10; Matthew 13:15; Mark 4:12; Acts 3:19; 26:18; 28:27

Verse 4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.

Baruch 26; 32:12; 43:3 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. 17,18,32; 45:1,2; Romans 16:22 upon 21,23,28,32; Isaiah 8:1; Ezekiel 2:9; Zechariah 5:1

Verse 5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:

20:2; 32:2; 33:1; 37:15; 38:6,28; 40:4; 2 Corinthians 11:23; Ephesians 3:1; 6:20; 2 Timothy 2:9; Hebrews 11:36

Verse 6 Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth,

the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.

and read 8; Ezekiel 2:3-7 the words 7:2; 18:11; 19:14; 22:2; 26:2 upon 9; Leviticus 16:29-31; 23:27-32; Acts 27:9

Verse 7 It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.

It may 3; 1 Kings 8:33-36; 2 Chronicles 33:12,13; Daniel 9:13; Hosea 5:15; 6:1; 14:1-3 they will present their supplication Heb. their supplication shall fall. and will. 1:3; 25:5; Jonah 3:8; Zechariah 1:4 for 4:4; 16:10; 19:15; 21:5; Deuteronomy 28:15-68; 29:18-28; 2 Kings 22:13,17; 2 Chronicles 34:21; Lamentations 4:11; Ezekiel 5:13; 8:18; 13:13; 20:33; 22:20; 24:8-13

Verse 8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD'S house.

did 4; 1:17; Matthew 16:24; 1 Corinthians 16:10; Philippians 2:19-22 in the Nehemiah 8:3; Luke 4:16-30

Verse 9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah,

in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.

A. M. 3398. B.C. 606. in the fifth they Leviticus 23:27; 2 Chronicles 20:3; Nehemiah 9:1; Esther 4:16; Isaiah 58:1-3; Joel 1:13; 2:12-17; Jonah 3:5; Zechariah 7:5,6; 8:19 came

Verse 10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house, in the ears of all the people.

Then 6,8 in the chamber 35:4 Gemariah 11,25 Shaphan 11; 26:24; 29:3 the scribe 52:25; 2 Samuel 8:17; 20:25; 2 Kings 18:37 entry or, door. 26:10; 2 Kings 15:35

Verse 11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,

Shaphan 10; 2 Kings 22:12-14; 25:22; 2 Chronicles 34:20

Verse 12 Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all

the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.

Elishama 20,21; 41:1 Elnathan 25; 26:22; 2 Kings 22:12,14; 24:8 Gemariah 10,11; 2 Kings 22:3,12 Hananiah 28:1-17

Verse 13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.

2 Kings 22:10,19; 2 Chronicles 34:16-18,24; Jonah 3:6

Verse 14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.

Nethaniah 40:8; 41:1,2,16,18; 2 Kings 25:23 Cushi Zephaniah 1:1 took 2; Ezekiel 2:6,7; Matthew 10:16,28

Verse 15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.

and read

Verse 16 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both

one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.

they were 24; Acts 24:25,26 We 13:18; 38:1-4; Amos 7:10,11

Verse 17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?

Tell John 9:10,11,15,26,27

Verse 18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

He 2,4; 43:2,3; Proverbs 26:4,5 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.

Verse 19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.

26; 26:20-24; 1 Kings 17:3; 18:4,10; 2 Chronicles 25:15; Proverbs 28:12;

Amos 7:12; Luke 13:31; Acts 5:40; 23:16-22

Verse 20 And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.

12,21

Verse 21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.

Jehudi And Jehudi 15; 23:28; 26:2; 2 Kings 22:10; 2 Chronicles 34:18; Ezekiel 2:4,5

Verse 22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.

22:14-16; 3:20; Amos 3:15

Verse 23 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

he cut 29-31; Deuteronomy 29:19-21; 1 Kings 22:8,27; Psalms 50:17; Proverbs 1:30; 5:12; 13:13; Proverbs 19:21; 21:30; 29:1; Isaiah 5:18,19; 28:14,15,17-22; Revelation 22:19

Verse 24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

they 16; Job 15:4; Psalms 36:1; 64:5; Isaiah 26:11; Romans 3:18 nor rent 5:3; 1 Kings 21:27; 2 Kings 19:1,2; 22:11-19; 2 Chronicles 34:19-31;

Isaiah 36:22; 37:1; Jonah 3:6; Matthew 12:41

Verse 25 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.

Elnathan 12; 26:22 made 13:15-17; Genesis 37:22,26-28; Matthew 27:4,24,25; Acts 5:34-39 but Proverbs 21:29

Verse 26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.

Hammelech or, the king. to take. 2:30; 26:21-23; 1 Kings 19:1-3,10,14; Matthew 23:34-37; 26:47-50; John 7:32; 8:20; 11:57 but 5,19; 1:19; 15:20,21; 1 Kings 17:3,9; 18:4,10-12; 2 Kings 6:18-20; Psalms 27:5; 32:7; 57:1; 64:2; 91:1; 121:8; Isaiah 26:20; John 8:59; Acts 12:11

Verse 27 Jeremiah href="/desk/?q=jer+36:23&sr=1">Jeremiah 36:23

Verse 28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.

28:13,14; 44:28; Job 23:13; Zechariah 1:5,6; Matthew 24:35; 2 Timothy 2:13

Verse 29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of

Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?

Thou hast Deuteronomy 29:19; Job 15:24; 40:8; Isaiah 45:9; Acts 5:39; 1 Corinthians 10:22 Why 26:9; 32:3; Isaiah 29:21; 30:10; Acts 5:28 The king 21:4-7,10; 28:8; 32:28-30; 34:21,22

Verse 30 Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

He shall 22:30; 2 Kings 24:12-15 and his 22:18; Genesis 31:40 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."

Verse 31 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.

punish Heb. visit upon. 23:34; *marg: will bring 11:8; 17:18; 19:15; 29:17-19; 35:17; 44:4-14; Leviticus 26:14; Deuteronomy 28:15-68; Proverbs 29:1 but Matthew 23:37

Verse 32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.

took who 4,18; Exodus 4:15,16; Romans 16:22 there Leviticus 26:18,21,24,28; Daniel 3:19; Revelation 22:18 like words Heb. words as they.

37 Chapter 37

Introduction

1 The Egyptians having raised the seige of the Chaldeans, king Zedekiah sends to Jeremiah to pray for the people.

6 Jeremiah prophesies the Chaldeans' certain return and victory.

11 He is taken for a fugitive, beaten, and put in prison.

16 He assures Zedekiah of the captivity.

18 Intreating for his liberty, he obtains some favour.

Verse 1 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

A. M. 3406-3416. B.C. 598-588. Zedekiah 2 Kings 24:17; 1 Chronicles 3:15; 2 Chronicles 36:10 Coniah 22:24,28; 24:1 Jeconiah 52:31; 2 Kings 24:12; 1 Chronicles 3:16; 2 Chronicles 36:9 Jehoiachin made. Ezekiel 17:12-21

Verse 2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah.

neither 2 Kings 24:19,20; 2 Chronicles 36:12-16; Proverbs 29:12; Ezekiel 21:25; 1 Thessalonians 4:8 the prophet Heb. the hand of the prophet. Exodus 4:13; Leviticus 8:36; 2 Samuel 10:2; 12:25; 1 Kings 14:18; 16:7; Proverbs 26:6; Hosea 12:10; *marg:

Verse 3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.

Zephaniah 21:1,2; 29:21,25; 52:24 Pray 2:27; 21:1,2; 42:2-4,20; Exodus 8:8,28; 9:28; 10:17; Numbers 21:7; 1

Samuel 12:19; 1 Kings 13:6; Acts 8:24

Verse 4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.

for 15; 32:2,3

Verse 5 Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.

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. 7; 2 Kings 24:7; Ezekiel 17:15 they 11; 34:21

Verse 7 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.

Thus 3; 21:2; 2 Kings 22:18 Pharaoh's 17:5,6; Proverbs 21:30; Isaiah 30:1-6; 31:1-3; Lamentations 4:17; Ezekiel 17:17; 29:6,7,16

Verse 8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

32:29; 34:21,22; 38:23; 39:2-8

Verse 9 Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.

Deceive Obadiah 1:3; Matthew 24:4,5; Galatians 6:3,7; Ephesians 5:6; 2 Thessalonians 2:3; James 1:22 yourselves Heb. your souls.

Verse 10 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

though 21:4-7; 49:20; 50:45; Leviticus 26:36-38; Isaiah 10:4; 30:17 wounded men Heb. men thrust through. 51:4; Isaiah 13:15; 14:19 yet Joel 2:11

Verse 11 And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,

that broken Heb. made to ascend.

Verse 12 Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people.

went 1 Kings 19:3,9; Nehemiah 6:11; Matthew 10:23; 1 Thessalonians 5:22 the land 1:1; Joshua 21:17,18; 1 Chronicles 6:60

separate himself thence or, slip away from thence.

Verse 13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.

in the 38:7; Zechariah 14:10 Hananiah 38:1,10-17; 36:12 Thou 18:18; 20:10; 21:9; 27:6,12,13; 28:14; 38:4,17; Amos 7:10; Luke 23:2; Acts 6:11; 24:5-9,13; 2 Corinthians 6:8

Verse 14 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

said 40:4-6; Nehemiah 6:8; Psalms 27:12; 35:11; 52:1,2; Matthew 5:11,12; Luke 6:22,23,26; 1 Peter 3:16; 4:14-16 false Heb. falsehood. or, a lie.

Verse 15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

the princes 20:1-3; 26:16; Matthew 21:35; 23:34; 26:67,68; Luke 20:10,11; 22:64; John 18:22; Acts 5:28,40; 16:22-24; 23:2,3; 2 Corinthians 11:23-27; Hebrews 11:36-38 put Genesis 39:20; 2 Chronicles 16:10; 18:26; Acts 5:18; 12:4-6; Revelation 2:10 in the 20; 38:6,26

Verse 16 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

A. M. 3415. B.C. 589. into the dungeon 38:6,10-13; Genesis 40:15; Lamentations 3:53,55 cabins or, cells.

Verse 17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

asked 38:5,14-16,24-27; 1 Kings 14:1-4 Is there 3; 21:1,2; 1 Kings 22:16; 2 Kings 3:11-13; Mark 6:20 thou shalt 21:7; 24:8; 29:16-18; 32:3-5; 34:21,22; 39:6,7; Ezekiel 12:12,13; Ezekiel 17:19-21; 21:25-27

Verse 18 Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?

26:19; Genesis 31:36; 1 Samuel 24:9-15; 26:18-21; Proverbs 17:13,26; Daniel 6:22; John 10:32; Acts 23:1; 24:16; 25:8,11,25; 26:31; Galatians 4:16

Verse 19 Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

Where 2:28; Deuteronomy 32:36,37; 2 Kings 3:13 your 6:14; 8:11; 14:13-15; 23:17; 27:14-18; 28:1-5,10-17; 29:31; Lamentations

2:14; Ezekiel 13:10-16

Verse 20 Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

be accepted before Heb. fall before. 36:7; *marg: lest 26:15; 38:6-9; Acts 23:16-22; 25:10,11; 28:18,19

Verse 21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

into the 32:2,8; 38:13,28 and that 1 Kings 17:4-6; Job 5:20; Psalms 33:18,19; 34:9,10; 37:3,19; Proverbs 16:7; 21:1; Isaiah 33:16; Matthew 6:33 until 38:9; 52:6; Deuteronomy 28:52-57; 2 Kings 25:3; Lamentations 2:11,12,19,20; 4:4,5,9,10; Lamentations 5:10 Thus 38:13,28; 39:14,15; Acts 12:5; 24:27; 28:16,30; Ephesians 4:1; 6:20; 2 Timothy 1:8; 2 Timothy 2:9

38 Chapter 38

Introduction

1 Jeremiah, by a false suggestion, is put into the dungeon of Malchiah.

7 Edeb-melech, by suit, gets him some enlargement.

14 Upon secret conference, he counsels the king by yielding to save his life.

24 By the king's instructions he conceals the conference from the princes.

Verse 1 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,

Shephatiah Ezra 2:3; Nehemiah 7:9 Jucal 37:4 Jehucal Pashur. 21:1-10 Melchiah 1 Chronicles 9:12 Malchijah Nehemiah 11:12 heard Acts 4:1,2,6-10; 5:28

Verse 2 Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.

He 17-23; 21:8,9; 24:8; 27:13; 29:18; 34:17; 42:17,22; 44:13; Ezekiel 5:12-17; 6:11; 7:15; 14:21; Matthew 24:7,8; Revelation 6:4-8 shall have 21:9; 39:18; 45:5

Verse 3 Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of

Babylon's army, which shall take it. 21:10; 32:3-5

Verse 4 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.

the princes 26:11,21-23; 36:12-16; 2 Chronicles 24:21; Ezekiel 22:27; Micah 3:1-3; Zephaniah 3:1-3 thus Exodus 5:4; 1 Kings 18:17,18; 21:20; Ezra 4:12; Nehemiah 6:9; Amos 7:10; Luke 23:2; John 11:46-50; Acts 16:20; 17:6; 24:5; 28:22 welfare Heb. peace. 29:7

Verse 5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.

for 1 Samuel 15:24; 29:9; 2 Samuel 3:39; 19:22; Proverbs 29:25; John 19:12-16

Verse 6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

took 37:21; Psalms 109:5; Luke 3:19,20 into 37:16; Lamentations 3:55; Acts 16:24; 2 Corinthians 4:8,9; Hebrews 10:36 Hammelech or, the king.

36:26 and they 11,12 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.) 22; Genesis 37:24; Psalms 40:2; 69:2,14,15; Lamentations 3:52-55; Zechariah 9:11

Verse 7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;

Ebed-melech 39:16-18 Ethiopian 13:23; Psalms 68:31; Matthew 8:11,12; 20:16; Luke 10:30-36; 13:29,30; Acts 8:27-39 eunuchs 29:2; 34:19; 2 Kings 24:15; *marg:

the king 37:13; Deuteronomy 21:19; Job 29:7-17; Amos 5:10

Verse 9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.

these 1-6; Esther 7:4-6; Job 31:34; Proverbs 24:11,12; 31:8,9 is like to die Heb. will die. for there 37:21; 52:6

Verse 10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

the king Esther 5:2; 8:7; Psalms 75:10; Proverbs 21:1 with thee Heb. in thine hand.

Verse 11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

let them

Verse 12 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.

Put Romans 12:10,15; Ephesians 4:32

Verse 13

So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

So Jeremiah 28; 37:21; 39:14-18; 1 Kings 22:27; Acts 23:35; 24:23-26; 28:16,30

Verse 14 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.

sent 21:1,2; 37:17 third or, principal. 1 Kings 10:5; 2 Kings 16:18 I will 42:2-5,20; 1 Samuel 3:17,18; 1 Kings 22:16; 2 Chronicles 18:15

Verse 15 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?

Luke 22:67,68

Verse 16 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.

sware 37:17; John 3:2 that made Numbers 16:22; 27:16; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Isaiah 57:16; Zechariah 12:1; Hebrews 12:9 of these 1-6; 34:20

Verse 17

Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:

the God of hosts Psalms 80:7,14; Amos 5:27 the God of Israel 1 Chronicles 17:24; Ezra 9:4 If thou 2; 7:6,7; 21:8-10; 27:12,17; 39:3; Job 23:13

Verse 18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.

if thou 2 Kings 24:12; 25:27-30 then 3,23; 24:8-10; 32:3-5; 34:2,3,19-22; 39:3,5-7; 52:7-11; 2 Kings 25:4-10; Ezekiel 12:13; 17:20,21; 21:25-27

Verse 19 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.

I 5; 1 Samuel 15:24; Job 31:34; Proverbs 29:25; Isaiah 51:12,13; 57:11; John 12:42; John 19:12,13 mock 22; Judges 9:54; 16:25; 1 Samuel 31:4; Isaiah 45:9,10

Verse 20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.

Obey 26:13; 2 Chronicles 20:20; Daniel 4:27; Acts 26:29; 2 Corinthians 5:11,20;

6:1; Philemon 1:8-10; James 1:22 and thy Isaiah 55:3

Verse 21 But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath shewed me:

if thou 5:3; Exodus 10:3,4; 16:28; Job 34:33; Proverbs 1:24-31; Isaiah 1:19,20; Hebrews 12:25 this is 15:19-21; 26:15; Numbers 23:19,20; 24:13; Job 23:13; Ezekiel 2:4,5,7; Ezekiel 3:17-19; Acts 18:6; 20:26,27

Verse 22 And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.

all 41:10; 43:6; Lamentations 5:11 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." Thy friends Heb. The men of thy peace.

4-6; 20:10; Psalms 41:9; *marg: have set 19; Lamentations 1:2; Micah 7:5 thy feet 6; Psalms 69:2,14 they are 46:5,21; Isaiah 42:17; Lamentations 1:13

Verse 23 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.

they shall 18; 39:6; 41:10; 52:8-13; 2 Kings 25:7; 2 Chronicles 36:20,21 shalt cause, etc Heb. shalt burn, etc. 27:12,13; Ezekiel 14:9; 43:3

Verse 25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:

4-6,27

Verse 26 Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.

37:15,20; 42:2; Esther 4:8

Verse 27 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

and he told 1 Samuel 10:15,16; 16:2-5; 2 Kings 6:19; Acts 23:6 left off speaking with him

Heb. were silent from him.

Verse 28 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.

13; 15:20,21; 37:21; 39:14; Psalms 23:4; 2 Timothy 3:11; 4:17,18

39 Chapter 39

Introduction

1 Jerusalem is taken.

4 Zedekiah is made blind and sent to Babylon.

8 The city laid in ruins,

9 and the people captivated.

11 Nebuchadrezzar's charge for the good usage of Jeremiah.

15 God's promise to Ebed-melech.

Verse 1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

A. M. 3414. B.C. 590. the ninth 52:4-7; 2 Kings 25:1,2-7; Ezekiel 24:1,2; Zechariah 8:19 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.

Verse 2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.

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 2 Kings 25:3 was 5:10; 52:6,7; 2 Kings 25:4; Ezekiel 33:21; Micah 2:12,13; Zephaniah 1:10

Verse 3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.

all the 1:15; 21:4; 38:17 Nergalsharezer 13; 2 Kings 17:30 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 (ma/gov)] in Greek, signify; and we learn from Justin and Curtius that the magi attended the king in war.

Verse 4 And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.

38:18-20; Leviticus 26:17,36; Deuteronomy 28:25; 32:24-30; 2 Kings 25:4-7; Isaiah 30:15,16; Ezekiel 12:12; Amos 2:14 betwixt 52:7-11; 2 Chronicles 32:5

Verse 5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.

Chaldeans' 32:4,5; 38:18,23; 2 Chronicles 33:11; Lamentations 1:3; 4:20 in the plains 52:8; Joshua 4:13; 5:10 Riblah 52:9,26,27; 2 Kings 23:33; 25:6 Hamath Numbers 13:21; Joshua 13:5; Judges 3:3; 2 Samuel 8:9; 2 Kings 17:24 gave judgment upon him Heb. spake with him judgments. 4:12; Ezekiel 17:15-21

Verse 6 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.

slew the 52:10; 2 Kings 25:7 before Genesis 21:16; 44:34; Deuteronomy 28:34; 2 Kings 22:20; 2 Chronicles 34:28; Esther 8:6; Isaiah 13:16 slew all 21:7; 24:8-10; 34:19-21

Verse 7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.

he put 32:4,5; 52:11; 2 Kings 25:7; Ezekiel 12:13 chains Heb. two brasen chains, or fetters. Judges 16:21; Psalms 107:10,11; 119:8

Verse 8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with

fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem. burned 7:20; 9:10-12; 17:27; 21:10; 34:2,22; 37:10; 38:18; 52:13; 2 Kings 25:9; 2 Chronicles 36:19; Isaiah 5:9; Lamentations 1:10; 2:2,7; Amos 2:5; Micah 3:12 and brake 52:14; 2 Kings 25:10; Nehemiah 1:3

Verse 9 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.

Nebuzar-adan 13; 40:1; 52:12-16,26; 2 Kings 25:11,20 captain of the guard or, chief marshal. Heb. chief of the executioners, or slaughter-men. and so. 10,11-14; Genesis 37:36 carried 10:18; 16:13; 20:4-6; 52:28-30; Leviticus 26:33; Deuteronomy 4:27; 2 Kings 20:18; Isaiah 5:13

Verse 10 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

left of 40:7; 2 Kings 25:12; Ezekiel 33:24 at the same time Heb. in that day.

Verse 11 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,

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. gave 15:11,21; Job 5:19; Acts 24:23 to Heb. by the hand of. 37:2; *marg:

Verse 12 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.

look well to him Heb. set thine eyes upon him. 24:6; 40:4; *marg:; Proverbs 23:5; Amos 9:4; 1 Peter 3:12 do him Psalms 105:14,15; Proverbs 16:7; 21:1; Acts 7:10; 1 Peter 3:13

Verse 13 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon's princes;

Nebuzar-adan 3,9

Verse 14 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.

took 15; 37:21; 38:13,28; 40:1-4; Psalms 105:19 committed 40:5-16; 41:1-3; 2 Kings 25:22-25 Ahikam 26:24

Verse 15 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the

court of the prison, saying, while 14; 32:1,2; 36:1-5; 37:21; 2 Timothy 2:9

Verse 16 Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.

Ebed-melech 38:7-13 Behold 5:14; 19:11,12; 21:7-10; 24:8-10; 26:15,18,20; 32:28,29; 34:2,3,22; 35:17; 36:31; 44:28,29; Joshua 23:14,15; 2 Chronicles 36:21; Daniel 9:12; Zechariah 1:6; Matthew 24:35 before thee Psalms 91:8,9; 92:11

Verse 17 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid.

I will 1:19; Job 5:19-21; Psalms 41:1,2; 50:15; 91:14,15; Daniel 6:16; Matthew 10:40-42; Matthew 25:40; 2 Timothy 1:16-18 of whom 38:1,9; Genesis 15:1; 2 Samuel 24:14

Verse 18 For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.

but 21:9; 38:2; 45:4,5 because 17:7,8; Romans 2:12; 1 Chronicles 5:20; Psalms 2:12; 33:18; 34:22; 37:3,39,40; 84:12; Psalms 146:3-6; 147:11; Isaiah 26:3; Ephesians 1:12; 1 Peter 1:21

40 Chapter 40

Introduction

1 Jeremiah, being set free by Nebuzar-adan, goes to Gedaliah.

7 The dispersed Jews repair unto him.

13 Johanan revealing Ishmael's conspiracy is not believed.

Verse 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.

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 39:11-14 Ramah 31:15; Joshua 18:25; 1 Samuel 7:17 bound Psalms 68:6; 107:16; Acts 12:6,7; 21:13; 28:20; Ephesians 6:20; *marg: chains or, manacles.

Verse 2 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.

The Lord 22:8,9; Deuteronomy 29:24-28; 1 Kings 9:8,9; 2 Chronicles 7:20-22;

Lamentations 2:15-17

Verse 3 Now the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.

because 50:7; Nehemiah 9:28,33; Daniel 9:11,12; Romans 2:5; 3:19

Verse 5 Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.

Go back 39:14; 41:2; 2 Kings 25:22-24 Ahikam 26:24; 2 Kings 22:12,14; 2 Chronicles 34:20 or go 4; 15:11; Ezra 7:6,27; Nehemiah 1:11; 2:4-8; Proverbs 16:7; 21:1 gave him 52:31-34; 2 Kings 8:7-9; Job 22:29; Acts 27:3,43; 28:10; Hebrews 13:6 victuals and a reward Rather, "victuals, (aruchah, a stated allowance, sufficient for the journey,) and a present," masseäth.

Verse 6 Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.

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. 39:14 Mizpah Joshua 15:38; Judges 20:1; 21:1; 1 Samuel 7:5,6 Mizpeh

Verse 7 Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;

all the 39:4; 2 Kings 25:4,22,23-26 the poor 39:10; Ezekiel 33:24-29; 45:16

Verse 8 Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

came 6,11,12 even 14; 41:1-16; 2 Kings 25:23,25 Johanan 41:11,16; 42:1,8; 43:2,5 Jonathan 37:15,20; 38:26 Netophathite 2 Samuel 23:28,29; 1 Chronicles 2:54; 11:30; Ezra 2:2,22; Nehemiah 7:26

Maachathite Deuteronomy 3:14; Joshua 12:5; 2 Samuel 10:6,8; 23:34; 1 Chronicles 2:48

Verse 9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

sware 1 Samuel 20:16,17; 2 Kings 25:24 Fear 27:11; 38:17-20; Genesis 49:15; Psalms 37:3; 128:2

Verse 10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.

serve Heb. stand before. 35:19; Deuteronomy 1:38; Proverbs 22:29; Luke 21:36 gather 39:10 summer 12; 48:32; 2 Samuel 16:1; Isaiah 16:9; Micah 7:1

Verse 11 Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;

all the Jews 24:9; Isaiah 16:4; Ezekiel 5:3,12; 25:2,6,8,12; 35:5,15; Obadiah 1:11-14

Verse 13 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,

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.

Verse 14 And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.

Ammonites 25:21; 41:10; 49:1-6; 1 Samuel 11:1-3; 2 Samuel 10:1-6; Ezekiel 25:2-6; Amos 1:13-15 Ishmael 8; 41:2,10; Proverbs 26:23-26; Isaiah 26:10; Micah 7:5 slay thee? Heb strike thee in soul. believed. 1 Corinthians 13:5-7

Verse 15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?

Let 1 Samuel 24:4; 26:8; Job 31:31 wherefore 12:3,4; 2 Samuel 18:3; 21:17; Ezekiel 33:24-29; John 11:50

Verse 16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.

Thou shalt 41:2; Matthew 10:16,17; Romans 3:8

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Introduction

1 Ishmael, treacherously killing Gedaliah and others, purposes with the residue to flee unto the Ammonites.

11 Johanan recovers the captives, and is minded to flee into Egypt.

Verse 1 Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.

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 40:6,8 Elishama 36:12,20 of the Proverbs 13:10; 27:4; James 4:1-3 seed 2 Kings 11:1; 2 Chronicles 22:10; Ezekiel 17:13 they did 40:14-16; 2 Samuel 3:27; 20:9,10; Psalms 41:9; 109:5; Proverbs 26:23-

26; Daniel 11:26,27; Luke 22:47,48; John 13:18

Verse 2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

and smote 2 Kings 25:25 whom 40:7

Verse 3 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the men of war.

11,12; 2 Kings 25:25; Ecclesiastes 9:18; Lamentations 1:2

Verse 4 And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,

after 1 Samuel 27:11; Psalms 52:1,2

Verse 5 That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.

came 2 Kings 10:13,14 Shechem Genesis 33:18; 34:2; Joshua 24:32; Judges 9:1; 1 Kings 12:1,25 Shiloh 7:12,14; Joshua 18:1 Samaria 1 Kings 16:24,29 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. Leviticus 19:27,28; Deuteronomy 14:1; 2 Samuel 10:4; Isaiah 15:2 to the 1 Samuel 1:7; 2 Kings 25:9; Psalms 102:14

Verse 6 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.

weeping, etc Heb. in going and weeping. 50:4; 2 Samuel 1:2-16; 3:16; Proverbs 26:23-26

Verse 7 And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.

slew 1 Kings 15:28,29; 16:10-12; 2 Kings 11:1,2; 15:25; Psalms 55:23; Proverbs 1:16; Isaiah 59:7; Ezekiel 22:27; 33:24-26; Romans 3:15

Verse 8 But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.

Slay Job 2:4; Psalms 49:6-8; Proverbs 13:8; Matthew 6:25; 16:26; Mark 8:36,37; Philippians 3:7-9 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.

Verse 9 Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.

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. because of Gedaliah or, near Gedaliah. Heb. by the hand, or the side of Gedaliah. was it. Joshua 10:16-18; Judges 6:2; 1 Samuel 13:6; 14:11,22; 24:3; 2 Samuel 17:9; Hebrews 11:38 for fear 1 Kings 15:17-22; 2 Chronicles 16:1-10

Verse 10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.

all the 40:11,12 even 22:30; 39:6; 43:5-7; 44:12-14 whom 40:7 to the 40:14; Nehemiah 2:10,19; 4:7,8; 6:17,18; 13:4-8

Verse 11 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,

Johanan

2,3,7; 40:7,8,13-16; 42:1,3; 43:2-5

Verse 12 Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.

to fight Genesis 14:14-16; 1 Samuel 30:1-8,18-20 the great 2 Samuel 2:13

Verse 13 Now it came to pass, that when all the people which were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, then they were glad.

that when They appear to have been weary of the tyranny of Ishmael, and glad of an opportunity to abandon him.

Verse 15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.

escaped 1 Samuel 30:17; 1 Kings 20:20; Job 21:30; Proverbs 28:17; Ecclesiastes 8:11,12; Acts 28:4 eight men 2; 2 Kings 25:25

Verse 16 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon:

even 10; 42:8; 43:4-7

Verse 17 And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,

Chimham 2 Samuel 19:37,38 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. 42:14,19; 43:7; Isaiah 30:2,3

Verse 18 Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.

for they 42:11,16; 43:2,3; 2 Kings 25:25; Isaiah 30:16,17; 51:12,13; 57:11; Luke 12:4,5 because whom 40:5

42 Chapter 42

Introduction

1 Johanan desires Jeremiah to enquire of God, promising obedience to his will.

7 Jeremiah assures him of safety in Judea;

13 and destruction in Egypt.

19 He reproves their hypocrisy, in enquiring of the Lord that which they mean not to follow.

Verse 1 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near,

all the 8; 40:8,13; 41:11,16; 43:4,5 Jezaniah 2 Kings 25:23; Ezekiel 8:11; 11:1 Jaazaniah from 8; 5:4,5; 6:13; 8:10; 44:12; Acts 8:10 came 20; Isaiah 29:13; 48:1; 58:1,2; Ezekiel 14:3,4; 20:1-3; 33:31; Matthew 15:8

Verse 2 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:)

be accepted before thee Heb. fall before thee. 36:7; 37:20; *marg: and pray 17:15,16; 21:2; 37:3; Exodus 8:28; 9:28; 1 Samuel 7:8; 12:19,23; 1 Kings 13:6; Isaiah 1:15; 37:4; Acts 8:24; James 5:16 left Leviticus 26:22; Deuteronomy 4:27; 28:62; Isaiah 1:9; Lamentations 1:1; Ezekiel 5:3,4; 12:16; Zechariah 13:8,9; Matthew 24:22

Verse 3 That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.

6:16; Deuteronomy 5:26,29; 1 Kings 8:36; Ezra 8:21; Psalms 25:4,5; 27:11; 86:11; Psalms 143:8-10; Proverbs 3:6; Isaiah 2:3; Micah 4:2; Mark 12:13,14

Verse 4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the LORD shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.

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. I will pray Exodus 8:29; 1 Samuel 12:23; Romans 10:1 whatsoever 23:28; 1 Kings 22:14-16; 2 Chronicles 18:13-15; Ezekiel 2:7 I will keep 1 Samuel 3:17,18; Psalms 40:10; Acts 20:20,27

Verse 5 Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.

The Lord be 5:2; Genesis 31:50; Exodus 20:7; Judges 11:10; 1 Samuel 12:5; 20:42; Micah 1:2; Malachi 2:14; 3:5; Romans 1:9; Revelation 1:5; 3:14 if we Exodus 20:19; Deuteronomy 5:27-29

Verse 6 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our

God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.

it be good Romans 7:7,13; 8:7 that it 7:23; Deuteronomy 5:29,33; 6:2,3; Psalms 81:13-16; 128:2; Isaiah 3:10

Verse 7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah.

Psalms 27:14; Isaiah 28:16; Habakkuk 2:3

Verse 8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

Johanan 1; 40:8,13; 41:11-16; 43:2-5

Verse 9 And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him;

unto 2; 2 Kings 19:4,6,20-37; 22:15-20

Verse 10 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.

abide Genesis 26:2,3; Psalms 37:3 then 24:6; 31:28; 33:7; Psalms 69:35; 102:16; Ezekiel 36:36; Acts 15:16 for I 18:7-10; 26:19; Exodus 32:14; Deuteronomy 32:36; Judges 2:18; 2 Samuel 24:16; Psalms 106:45; Hosea 11:8; Joel 2:13; Amos 7:3,6; Jonah 3:10; 4:2

Verse 11 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.

afraid 27:12,17; 41:18; 2 Kings 25:26; Matthew 10:28 for I 1:19; 15:20; Deuteronomy 20:4; Joshua 1:5,9; 2 Chronicles 32:7,8; Psalms 46:7,11; Isaiah 8:8-10; Isaiah 41:10; 43:2,5; Matthew 28:20; Acts 18:10; Romans 8:31; 2 Timothy 4:17

Verse 12 And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.

Nehemiah 1:11; Psalms 106:45,46; Proverbs 16:7

Verse 13 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the LORD your God,

10; 44:16; Exodus 5:2

Verse 14 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:

we will go 41:17; 43:7; Deuteronomy 29:19; Isaiah 30:16; 31:1 nor hear 4:19,21; Exodus 16:3; 17:3; Numbers 11:5; 16:13

Verse 15 And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;

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. 17; 44:12-14; Genesis 31:21; Deuteronomy 17:16; Daniel 11:17; Luke 9:51

Verse 16 Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

that the sword 13; 44:13,27; Deuteronomy 28:15,22,45; Proverbs 13:21; Ezekiel 11:8; Amos 9:1-4; Zechariah 1:6; John 11:48 follow close Heb. cleave. there ye. 44:11,12,27

Verse 17 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.

it be with all the men Heb. all the men be. they shall. 22; 24:10; 44:14 none 44:28

Verse 18 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.

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. 6:11; 7:20; 39:1-9; 52:4-11; 2 Kings 25:4-7; 2 Chronicles 34:25; 36:16-19; Lamentations 2:4; 4:11; Ezekiel 22:22; Daniel 9:11,27; Nahum 1:6; Revelation 14:10; 16:2-21 ye shall be 18:16; 24:9; 25:9; 26:6; 29:18,22; 44:12; Deuteronomy 29:21,22; 1 Kings 9:7-9; Isaiah 65:15; Zechariah 8:13 and ye shall see 22:10-12,27

Verse 19 The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.

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. Deuteronomy 17:16; Isaiah 30:1-7; 31:1-3; Ezekiel 17:15 know 38:21; Ezekiel 3:21; Acts 20:26,27 admonished you Heb. testified against you. Deuteronomy 31:21; 2 Chronicles 24:19; Nehemiah 9:26,29,30; Acts 2:40; Ephesians 4:17; 1 Thessalonians 4:6

Verse 20 For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.

For ye God made known to the prophet their dissimulation; which he shunned not to declare to them. 3:10; 17:10; Psalms 18:44; 65:3; Ezekiel 14:3,4; 33:31; Matthew 22:15-

18,35; Galatians 6:7 dissembled in your hearts Heb. have used deceit against your souls. Numbers 16:38; James 1:22 Pray

Verse 21 And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me unto you.

I have Deuteronomy 11:26,27; Ezekiel 2:7; 3:17; Acts 20:20,26,27 but 7:24-27; Deuteronomy 29:19; Zechariah 7:11,12

Verse 22 Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.

know 17; 43:11; Ezekiel 5:3,4; 6:11 in the Hosea 9:6 to go and to sojourn or, to go to sojourn.

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Introduction

1 Johanan, discrediting Jeremiah's prophecy, carries him and the rest into Egypt.

8 Jeremiah prophesies by a type the conquest of Egypt by the Babylonians.

Verse 1 And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the LORD their God

had sent him to them, even all these words, had made 26:8; 42:22; 51:63 all the words 1:7,17; 26:2; 42:3-5; Exodus 24:3; 1 Samuel 8:10; Matthew 28:20; Acts 5:20; 20:27

Verse 2 Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:

Azariah 40:8; 43:1 Jezaniah Johanan. 40:13-16; 41:16 all the 13:15; Exodus 5:2; 9:17; Psalms 10:4,5; 12:3; 119:21; 123:4; Proverbs 6:17; 8:13; Proverbs 16:5,18,19; 30:9; Habakkuk 2:4,5; Isaiah 9:9,10; James 4:6; 1 Peter 5:5 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. 5:12,13; 2 Chronicles 36:13; Isaiah 7:9

Verse 3 But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.

Baruch 6; 36:4,10,26; 45:1-3 to deliver 38:4; Psalms 109:4; Matthew 5:11,12; Luke 6:22,23,26

Verse 4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah.

obeyed 42:5,6; 44:5; 2 Chronicles 25:16; Ecclesiastes 9:16 to dwell 42:10-13; Psalms 37:3

Verse 5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;

took 40:11,12; 41:15,16; 1 Samuel 26:19

Verse 6 Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.

the king's 41:10; 52:10 every 39:10; 40:7 Jeremiah Ecclesiastes 9:1,2; Lamentations 3:1; John 21:18

Verse 7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.

So 2 Chronicles 25:16 Tahpanhes 2:16 Tahapanhes

44:1; 46:14; Isaiah 30:4 Hanes Ezekiel 30:18 Tehaphnehes

Verse 8 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

Psalms 139:7; 2 Timothy 2:9

Verse 9 Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;

great 13:1-11; 18:2-12; 19:1-15; 51:63,64; 1 Kings 11:29-31; Isaiah 20:1-4; Ezekiel 4:1-17; 5:1-17; 12:3-16; Hosea 12:10; Acts 21:11; Revelation 18:21 in the brick-kiln Exodus 1:14; 2 Samuel 12:31; Nahum 3:14

Verse 10 And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.

I will send 1:15; 25:6-26; 27:6-8; Ezekiel 29:18-20; Daniel 2:21; 5:18,19 my servant 25:9; 27:6; 46:27,28; Isaiah 44:28; 45:1; Matthew 22:7 his royal 1 Kings 20:12,16; Psalms 18:11; 27:5; 31:20

Verse 11 And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.

he shall smite

25:19; 46:1-26; Isaiah 19:1-25; Ezekiel 29:19,20; 30:1-32 such as are for death 15:2; 44:13; Job 20:29; Ezekiel 5:12; Zechariah 11:9

Verse 12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.

in the 46:25; 48:7; 50:2; 51:44; Exodus 12:12; 2 Samuel 5:21; Isaiah 19:1; 21:9; 46:1; Ezekiel 30:13; Zephaniah 2:11 array Esther 6:9; Job 40:10 putteth Psalms 109:18,19; 132:16,18; Isaiah 49:18; 52:1; 59:17; 61:5,10; Romans 13:12; Ephesians 4:24; 6:11; Colossians 3:12,14

Verse 13 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.

images Heb. statues, or standing images. Beth-shemesh. or, the house of the sun. Isaiah 19:18; *marg: and the

44 Chapter 44

Introduction

1 Jeremiah expresses the desolation of Judah for their idolatry.

11 He prophesies their destruction, who commit idolatry in Egypt.

15 The obstinacy of the Jews;

20 for which Jeremiah threatens them;

29 and for a sign prophesies the destruction of Egypt.

Verse 1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,

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. concerning 42:15-18; 43:5-7 Migdol 46:14; Exodus 14:2; Ezekiel 29:10; *Heb: 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 Daphnæ Pelusicæ. 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. 43:7; Ezekiel 30:18 Tehaphnehes Noph. 2:16; 46:14,19; Isaiah 19:13; Ezekiel 30:16 Pathros Genesis 10:14 Pathrusim Isaiah 11:11; Ezekiel 29:14; 30:14

Verse 2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,

Ye have 39:1-8; Exodus 19:4; Deuteronomy 29:2; Joshua 23:3; Zechariah 1:6 a desolation 22; 4:7; 7:34; 9:11; 25:11; 34:22; Leviticus 26:32,33,43; 2 Kings 21:13; Isaiah 6:11; 24:12; 64:10,11; Lamentations 1:1,16; 5:18; Micah 3:12

Verse 3 Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.

of their 2:17-19; 4:17,18; 5:19,29; 9:12-14; 11:17; 16:11,12; 19:3,4; 22:9; Ezra 9:6-11; Nehemiah 9:33; Lamentations 1:8; 4:13; Ezekiel 8:17,18; 9:9; 22:25-31; Daniel 9:5; Zechariah 7:12,13 gods Deuteronomy 13:6; 29:26; 32:17

Verse 4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

I sent 7:13,25; 25:3,4; 26:5; 29:19; 32:33; 35:17; 2 Chronicles 36:15; Zechariah 7:7 this 16:18; Ezekiel 8:10; 16:36,47; 1 Peter 4:3; Revelation 17:4,5

Verse 5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.

they 7:24; 2 Chronicles 36:16; Psalms 81:11-13; Isaiah 48:4,18; Zechariah 7:11,12; Revelation 2:21,22

burn 17-21; 19:13

Verse 6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.

my fury 4:4; 7:20; 21:5,12; 36:7; 42:18; Leviticus 26:28; Isaiah 51:17,20; Ezekiel 5:13; Ezekiel 6:12; 8:18; 20:33; 24:8,13; Daniel 9:12; Nahum 1:2 wasted 2,3; Isaiah 6:11

Verse 7 Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;

against 7:19; 25:7; 42:20; *marg:; Numbers 16:38; Proverbs 1:18; 5:22; 8:36; 15:32; Ezekiel 33:11; Habakkuk 2:10 to cut 8,11; 9:21; 51:22; Joshua 6:21; Judges 21:11 child Deuteronomy 32:25; 1 Samuel 15:3; 22:19; Lamentations 2:11 Judah Heb. the midst of Judah. to leave. 12,14,27,28

Verse 8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

ye provoke 25:6,7; Deuteronomy 32:16,17; 2 Kings 17:15-17; Isaiah 3:8; 1 Corinthians 10:21,22; Hebrews 3:16

that ye might cut 7; Ezekiel 18:31,32 a curse 12; 18:16; 24:9; 26:6; 29:18; 42:18; 1 Kings 9:7,8; 2 Chronicles 7:20; Isaiah 65:15; Lamentations 2:15,16

Verse 9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

ye forgotten Joshua 22:17-20; Ezra 9:7-15; Daniel 9:5-8 wickedness Heb. wickedness, or punishments, etc. the wickedness of your. 15-19; 7:17,18

Verse 10 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.

are not 8:12; Exodus 9:17; 10:3; 1 Kings 21:29; 2 Chronicles 12:6-12; 32:26; 33:12,19; 34:27; Daniel 5:20-22; James 4:6-10; 1 Peter 5:6 humbled Heb. contrite. 2 Kings 22:19; Psalms 34:18; 51:17; Isaiah 57:15; 66:2; Ezekiel 9:4 neither 10:7; 36:24; Exodus 9:30; Proverbs 8:13; 14:16; 16:6; 28:14; Ecclesiastes 8:12,13; Malachi 4:2; Matthew 27:54; Luke 23:40; Romans 11:20; Revelation 15:4

Verse 11 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.

I will 21:10; Leviticus 17:10; 20:5,6; 26:17; Psalms 34:16; Ezekiel 14:7,8; 15:7;

Amos 9:4

Verse 12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

I will take 42:15-18,22 from the Hosea 4:6 and they shall be 8; 29:22; Isaiah 65:15

Verse 13 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:

27,28; 11:22; 21:9; 24:10; 42:18; 43:11

Verse 14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.

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. which are Isaiah 30:1-3 shall escape 27; 42:17; Matthew 23:33; Romans 2:3; Hebrews 2:3 which they 22:26,27; 42:22 have a desire Heb. lift up there soul. for none. 28; Isaiah 4:2; 10:20; Romans 9:27; 11:5,6

Verse 15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,

all the 5:1-5; Genesis 19:4; Nehemiah 13:26; Proverbs 11:21; Isaiah 1:5; Matthew 7:13; 2 Peter 2:1,2

Verse 16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.

we 16:15-17; 8:6,12; 18:18; 38:4; Exodus 5:2; Job 15:25-27; 21:14,15; Psalms 2:3; 73:8,9; Isaiah 3:9; Daniel 3:15; Luke 19:14,27

Verse 17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

whatsoever 25; Numbers 30:2,12; Deuteronomy 23:23; Judges 11:36; Psalms 12:4; Mark 6:26

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. 7:18; 2 Kings 17:16 as we 19:13; 32:29-32; 2 Kings 22:17; Nehemiah 9:34; Daniel 9:6-8 our fathers Nehemiah 9:34; Psalms 106:6; Ezekiel 20:8; Daniel 9:5,6,8; 1 Peter 1:18 in the cities 9,21 then Exodus 16:3; Isaiah 48:5; Hosea 2:5-9; Philippians 3:19 victuals Heb. bread.

Verse 18 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

we have 40:12; Numbers 11:5,6; Job 21:14,15; Psalms 73:9-15; Malachi 3:13-15

Verse 19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?

we burned 15; 7:18 without Genesis 3:6,11,12,16,17; Deuteronomy 7:3,4; 1 Kings 21:25; 2 Chronicles 21:6; Proverbs 11:21; Mark 6:19-27 men or, husbands.

Verse 21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?

and in 9,17; 11:13; Ezekiel 16:24 did 14:10; 1 Samuel 15:3; 1 Kings 17:18; Psalms 79:8; Isaiah 64:9; Ezekiel 21:23,24; Hosea 7:2; Amos 8:7; Revelation 16:19; 18:5

Verse 22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

could 15:6; Genesis 6:3,5-7; Psalms 95:10,11; Isaiah 1:24; 7:13; 43:24; Ezekiel 5:13; Amos 2:13; Malachi 2:17; Romans 2:4,5; 9:22; 2 Peter 3:7-9 your land 2,6,12; 18:16; 24:9; 25:11,18,38; 26:6; 29:19; 1 Kings 9:7,8; Lamentations 2:15,16; Daniel 9:12

Verse 23 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.

ye have burned

8,18,21; 32:31-33; 2 Chronicles 36:16; Lamentations 1:8; 1 Corinthians 10:20; 2 Corinthians 6:16 nor walked Psalms 119:150 nor in his statutes Psalms 119:155 nor in his testimonies Psalms 78:56 therefore 1 Kings 9:9; Nehemiah 13:18; Daniel 9:11,12

Verse 24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt:

Hear 16; 42:15; 1 Kings 22:19; Isaiah 1:10; 28:14; Ezekiel 2:7; Amos 7:16; Matthew 11:15 all Judah 15,26; 43:7; Ezekiel 20:32,33

Verse 25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.

Ye and 15-19; Isaiah 28:15; Jude 1:13 We will Matthew 14:9; Acts 23:12-15 ye will Job 34:22; James 1:14,15

Verse 26 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name

shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.

I have sworn 46:18; Genesis 22:16; Numbers 14:21-23,28; Deuteronomy 32:40-42; Psalms 89:34; Isaiah 62:8; Amos 6:8; 8:7; Hebrews 3:18; 6:13,18 that my name Psalms 50:16; Ezekiel 20:39; Amos 6:10 The Lord God 4:2; 5:2; 7:9; Isaiah 48:1,2; Zephaniah 1:4,5

Verse 27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.

will watch 1:10; 21:10; 31:28; Ezekiel 7:6 shall be 12,18; 2 Kings 21:14

Verse 28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.

a small 14; Isaiah 10:19,22; 27:12,13 shall know 16,17,25,26,29; Numbers 14:28,29,41; Psalms 33:11; Isaiah 14:24-27; Isaiah 28:16-18; 46:10,11; Lamentations 3:37,38; Zechariah 1:6; Matthew 24:35 mine, or theirs Heb. from me or them.

Verse 29 And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:

a sign

30; 1 Samuel 2:34; Matthew 24:15,16,32-34; Mark 13:14-16; Luke 21:20,21; Luke 21:20,21,29-33 my words Proverbs 19:21; Isaiah 40:8

Verse 30 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.

I will 43:9-13; 46:13-26; Ezekiel 29:1-30; 31:18; 32:1-32 as I 34:21; 39:5-7; 52:8-11; 2 Kings 25:4-7

45 Chapter 45

Introduction

1 Baruch being dismayed,

4 Jeremiah instructs and comforts him.

Verse 1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

A. M. 3397. B.C. 607. Baruch 32:12,16; 43:3-6 when 36:1,4,8,14-18,26,32 in the 25:1; 26:1; 36:1,9

Verse 2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch;

unto Isaiah 63:9; Mark 16:7; 2 Corinthians 1:4; 7:6; Hebrews 2:18; 4:15

Verse 3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

Woe 9:1; 15:10-21; 20:7-18; Psalms 120:5 added Genesis 37:34,35; 42:36-38; Numbers 11:11-15; Joshua 7:7-9; Job 16:11-13; 23:2; Psalms 42:7; Lamentations 3:1-19,32 I fainted 8:18; Psalms 27:13; 77:3,4; Proverbs 24:10; Lamentations 1:13,22; 2 Corinthians 4:1,16; Galatians 6:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:13; Hebrews 12:3-5

Verse 4 Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

that which 1:10; 18:7-10; 31:28; Genesis 6:6,7; Psalms 80:8-16; Isaiah 5:2-7

Verse 5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.

seekest 2 Kings 5:26; Romans 12:16; 1 Corinthians 7:26-32; 1 Timothy 6:6-9; Hebrews 13:5 seek Matthew 6:25-32 I will bring 25:26; Genesis 6:12; Isaiah 66:16; Zephaniah 3:8 thy life 21:9; 38:2; 39:18

46 Chapter 46

Introduction

1 Jeremiah prophesies the overthrow of Pharaoh's army at Euphrates,

13 and the conquest of Egypt by Nebuchadrezzar.

27 He comforts Jacob in his chastisement.

Verse 1 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;

The word This is a general title to the prophecies contained in this and the following chapters, concerning different nations which had less or more connexion with the Jews, either as enemies, neighbours, or allies. They were not delivered at the same time: to some the date is annexed; in others it is left uncertain. against 1:10; 4:7; 25:15-29; Genesis 10:5; Numbers 23:9; Zechariah 2:8; Romans 3:29

Verse 2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.

Against Egypt 14; 25:9,19; Ezekiel 29:1-32 Pharaoh-necho 2 Kings 23:29 Pharaoh-nechoh 2 Chronicles 35:20,21 Necho Carchemish Isaiah 10:9 in the

25:1; 36:1

Verse 3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

51:11,12; Isaiah 8:9,10; 21:5; Joel 3:9; Nahum 2:1; 3:14

Verse 4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.

furbish Ezekiel 21:9-11,28 brigandines 51:3

Verse 5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.

and their Revelation 6:15 beaten down Heb. broken in pieces. fled apace. Heb. fled a flight. 15; Genesis 19:17; 2 Kings 7:6,7; Nahum 2:8 fear 6:25; 20:3,4; *marg:; 10; 49:29; Isaiah 19:16; Ezekiel 32:10; Revelation 6:15-17

Verse 6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.

not Judges 4:15-21; Psalms 33:16,17; 147:10,11; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Isaiah 30:16,17; Amos 2:14,15; 9:1-3 stumble 12; 20:11; 50:32; Psalms 27:2; Isaiah 8:15; Daniel 11:19,22 toward

10; 1:14; 4:6; 6:1; 25:9

Verse 7 Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?

Who Song of Solomon 3:6; 8:5; Isaiah 63:1 as a flood 47:2; Isaiah 8:7,8; Daniel 9:26; 11:22; Amos 8:8; Revelation 12:15

Verse 8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.

riseth Ezekiel 29:3; 32:2 I will go Exodus 15:9,10; Isaiah 10:13-16; 37:24-26

Verse 9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.

rage Nahum 2:3,4 Ethiopians Heb. Cush and Put. Genesis 10:6 Phut 1 Corinthians 1:8; Ezekiel 27:10 Phut Nahum 3:9 Lubim Acts 2:10 Lydians Genesis 10:13; 1 Chronicles 1:11 Ludim

Isaiah 66:19; Ezekiel 27:10 Lud 30:5

Verse 10 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

the day 51:6; Isaiah 13:6; 34:6,8; 61:2; 63:4; Joel 1:15; 2:1; Zephaniah 1:14,15; Luke 21:22 the sword Deuteronomy 32:42; Isaiah 34:5-8; Ezekiel 39:17-21; Zephaniah 1:7,8; Revelation 19:17-21 the north 2,6; 2 Kings 24:7

Verse 11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.

Gilead 8:22; 51:8; Genesis 37:25; 43:11; Ezekiel 27:17 O virgin 14:17; Isaiah 47:1 in vain 30:12-15; Ezekiel 30:21-25; Micah 1:9; Nahum 3:19; Matthew 5:26; Luke 8:43,44 thou shalt not be cured Heb. no cure shall be unto thee.

Verse 12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.

heard Ezekiel 32:9-12; Nahum 3:8-10

thy cry 14:2; 48:34; 49:21; 51:54; 1 Samuel 5:12; Isaiah 15:5-8; Zephaniah 1:10 stumbled 6; Isaiah 10:4; 19:2

Verse 13 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.

Cir A &M. 3398. B.C. 606. Nebuchadrezzar. 43:10-13; 44:30; Isaiah 19:1-25; 29:1-32

Verse 14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.

Migdol 43:9; 44:1; Exodus 14:2; Ezekiel 30:16-18 Stand 3,4; 6:1-5; Joel 3:9-12 the sword 10; 2:30; 12:12; 2 Samuel 2:26; Isaiah 1:20; 31:8; 34:6; Nahum 2:13

Verse 15 Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.

thy 5,21; Judges 5:20,21; Isaiah 66:15,16 the Lord Exodus 6:1; Deuteronomy 11:23; Psalms 18:14,39; 44:2; 68:2; 114:2-7

Verse 16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

made many to fall

Heb. multiplied the faller. one. Leviticus 26:36,37 they said 21; 51:9

Verse 17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.

Pharaoh Exodus 15:9; 1 Kings 20:10,18; Isaiah 19:11-16; 31:3; 37:27-29; Ezekiel 29:3; Ezekiel 31:18

Verse 18 As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

saith 10:10; 44:26; 48:15; 51:17; Isaiah 47:4; 48:2; Malachi 1:14; Matthew 5:35; 1 Timothy 1:17 Tabor Joshua 19:22; Judges 4:6; Psalms 89:12 Carmel 1 Kings 18:42,43

Verse 19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

thou 48:18 furnish thyself to go into captivity Heb. make thee instruments of captivity. Isaiah 20:4; Ezekiel 12:3; *marg:; Ezekiel 12:4-12 Noph Noph, or Moph, is the celebrated city of Memphis, as the Chaldee and LXX. render; long the residence of the ancient Egyptian kings, and situated fifteen miles above where the Delta begins, on the western side of the Nile. It was in the neighbourhood of Memphis that the famous

pyramids were erected, whose grandeur and beauty still astonish the modern traveller: they are about twenty in number; the largest of which is 481 feet perpendicular height, and the area of its basis is on 480,249 square feet, or something more than eleven acres, being exactly the size of Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. The immense ruins between the northern and southern pyramids, and about fourteen miles from Cairo, still called Memf, Menf, or Menouf, seem to mark the site of this city. 44:1; Ezekiel 30:13 waste 26:9; 34:22; 51:29,30; Zephaniah 2:5

Verse 20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.

a very 50:11; Hosea 10:11 it cometh 6,10; 1:14; 25:9; 47:2

Verse 21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.

her hired 9,16; 2 Samuel 10:6; 2 Kings 7:6; Ezekiel 27:10,11; 30:4-6 like 50:11,27; Isaiah 34:7 fatted bullocks Heb. bullocks of the stall. Proverbs 15:17; Amos 6:4 they did 5,15,16 the day 18:17; Deuteronomy 32:15; Psalms 37:13; Isaiah 10:3; Ezekiel 35:5; Hosea 9:7; Obadiah 1:13; Micah 7:4

Verse 22

The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

voice Isaiah 29:4; Micah 1:8; 7:16 and come 51:20-23; Isaiah 10:15,33,34; 14:8; 37:24; Zechariah 11:2

Verse 23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

cut Isaiah 10:18; Ezekiel 20:46 because Judges 6:5; 7:12; Joel 2:25; Revelation 9:2-10

Verse 24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

daughter 11,19; Psalms 137:8 she shall 20; 1:15; Ezekiel 29:1-32

Verse 25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:

multitude or, nourisher. Heb. Amon. No. Ezekiel 30:14; Nahum 3:8 with their 43:12,13; Exodus 12:12; Isaiah 19:1; Ezekiel 30:13; Zephaniah 2:11 and their Ezekiel 32:9-12; Nahum 3:9 and all 17:5,6; 42:14-16; Isaiah 20:5,6; 30:2,3; 31:1-3; Ezekiel 39:6,7

Verse 26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.

I will 44:30; Ezekiel 32:11 and afterward 48:47; 49:39; Ezekiel 29:8-14

Verse 27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

fear 30:10,11; Isaiah 41:13,14; 43:1,5; 44:2 I will save 23:3,4; 29:14; 31:8-11; 32:37; Isaiah 11:11-16; Ezekiel 34:10-14; 36:24; Ezekiel 37:21,22; 39:25; Amos 9:14; Micah 7:11-16 and be 23:6; 33:16; 50:19; Ezekiel 34:25,26

Verse 28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

for I am 1:19; 15:20; 30:11; Joshua 1:5,9; Psalms 46:7,11; Isaiah 8:9,10; 41:10; 43:2; Matthew 1:23; 28:20; Acts 18:10; 2 Timothy 4:17 make 25:9; Isaiah 45:23; Daniel 2:35 but I will not 4:27; 5:10,18; 30:11; 32:42-44; 33:24-26; Amos 9:8,9; Romans 11:15-17 correct

10:24; Habakkuk 3:2; 1 Corinthians 11:32 will I Isaiah 27:7,9; Hebrews 12:5-10; Revelation 3:19 not leave thee wholly unpunished or, not utterly cut thee off.

47 Chapter 47

Introduction

1 The destruction of the Philistines.

Verse 1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.

Cir A.M. 3387. B.C. 617. against. Exodus 25:15-17; Amos 1:6-8; Zephaniah 2:4-7; Zechariah 9:5-7 Gaza Heb. Azzah. 25:20; Genesis 10:19; *marg:; 1 Kings 4:24

Verse 2 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.

waters 46:7,8; Isaiah 8:7,8; 28:17; 59:19; Daniel 11:22; Amos 9:5,6; Nahum 1:8; Revelation 12:15,16; 17:1,15 out of 1:14; 46:6,20 all that is therein Heb. the fulness thereof. 8:16; *marg:; Psalms 24:1; 50:12; 96:11; 98:7; 1 Corinthians 10:26,28 then the

46:13; 48:3-5,39; Isaiah 15:2-5,8; 22:1,4,5; Zephaniah 1:10,11; James 5:1

Verse 3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;

the noise 8:16; 46:9; Judges 5:22; Job 39:19-25; Ezekiel 26:10,11; Nahum 2:4; 3:2,3 the fathers Deuteronomy 28:54,55; Lamentations 4:3,4

Verse 4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.

the day 46:10; Psalms 37:13; Isaiah 10:3; Ezekiel 7:5-7,12; 21:25,29; Hosea 9:7; Luke 21:22 Tyrus 25:20-22; Isaiah 23:1-18; Ezekiel 26:1-28; Joel 3:4-8; Amos 1:9,10; Zechariah 9:2-5 every Job 9:13; Isaiah 20:6; 31:8; Ezekiel 30:8 the remnant Ezekiel 25:16; Amos 1:8; 9:7 country Heb. isle. Joshua 22:30; Isaiah 20:6 Caphtor Genesis 10:13,14 Caphtorim Deuteronomy 2:23; 1 Chronicles 1:12 Caphthorim Amos 9:7

Verse 5

Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

Baldness 48:37; Isaiah 15:2; Ezekiel 7:18; Micah 1:16 Gaza 1; Amos 1:6-8; Zephaniah 2:4-7; Zechariah 9:5-7 the remnant 4; 25:20; Ezekiel 25:16 how 16:1; 41:5; 48:37; Leviticus 19:28; 21:5; Deuteronomy 14:1; 1 Kings 18:28; Mark 5:5

Verse 6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.

thou sword 12:12; 15:3; 25:27; 51:20-23; Deuteronomy 32:41,42; Psalms 17:13; Isaiah 10:5,15; Ezekiel 14:17; 21:3-5 how long 4:21; 12:4; 2 Samuel 2:26 put up thyself Heb. gather thyself. into. 1 Chronicles 21:27; Ezekiel 21:30; John 18:11

Verse 7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.

can it Heb. canst not. the Lord. 1 Samuel 15:3; Isaiah 10:6; 13:3; 37:26; 45:1-3; 46:10,11; Ezekiel 14:17; Amos 3:6 the sea Ezekiel 25:16; Zephaniah 2:6,7 hath he Micah 6:9

48 Chapter 48

Introduction

1 The judgment of Moab,

7 for their pride;

11 for their security;

14 for their carnal confidence;

26 and for their contempt of God and his people.

47 The restoration of Moab.

Verse 1 Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.

A. M. cir. 3420. B.C. cir. 584. Moab 9:26; 25:21; 27:3; Genesis 19:37; Numbers 24:17; 2 Chronicles 20:10; Isaiah 15:1-16; Isaiah 25:10; 27:3; Ezekiel 25:8-11; Amos 2:1,2; Zephaniah 2:8-11 Nebo 22,23; Numbers 32:3,37,38; 33:47; Isaiah 15:2 Misgab or, The high place.

Verse 2 There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.

no more 17; Isaiah 16:14 Heshbon 34,35; Numbers 21:25-30; 32:37; Isaiah 15:5; 16:8,9 come 42; 31:36; 33:24; 46:28; Esther 3:8-14; Psalms 83:4-8 thou shalt

25:15,17 cut down or, brought to silence. Isaiah 15:1; 25:10; *marg: Madmenah pursue thee. Heb. go after thee.

Verse 3 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.

voice 4:20,21; 47:2; Isaiah 15:2,8; 16:7-11; 22:4 Horonaim 5,34; Isaiah 15:5

Verse 4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

Moab This prophecy against Moab, as well as the following ones concerning Ammon, Edom, and the neighbouring countries, seem to have been fulfilled during the long siege of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar. Josephus places these events five years after the destruction of Jerusalem. Numbers 21:27-30 her Esther 8:11; Psalms 137:9

Verse 5 For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.

Luhith Luhith is placed by Eusebius between Areopolis, or Ar, and Zoar. (See ver. 34.) It was evidently situated upon a height; as was also Horonaim, which was probably not far from Luhith. Isaiah 15:5 continual weeping Heb. weeping with weeping.

Verse 6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

Flee 51:6; Genesis 19:17; Psalms 11:1; Proverbs 6:4,5; Matthew 24:16-18; Luke 3:7; 17:31-33; Hebrews 6:18 be like 17:6; Job 30:3-7 the heath or, a naked tree.

Verse 7 For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.

because 9:23; 13:25; Psalms 40:4; 49:6,7; 52:7; 62:8-10; Isaiah 59:4-6; Ezekiel 28:2-5; Hosea 10:13; 1 Timothy 6:17; Revelation 18:7 Chemosh 13,46; 43:12; Numbers 21:29; Judges 11:24; 1 Kings 11:7,33; Isaiah 46:1,2 his priests 49:3

Verse 8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.

the spoiler 18; 6:26; 15:8; 25:9; 51:56 and no 20-25; Ezekiel 25:9

Verse 9 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.

wings 28; Psalms 11:1; 55:6; Isaiah 16:2; Revelation 12:14

the cities 46:19; Zephaniah 2:9

Verse 10 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.

Cursed 50:25; Numbers 31:14-18; Judges 5:23; 1 Samuel 15:3,9,13-35; 1 Kings 20:42 deceitfully or, negligently.

Verse 11 Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.

hath been Psalms 55:19; 73:4-8; 123:4; Proverbs 1:32; *marg:; Zechariah 1:15 he hath Isaiah 25:6; Zephaniah 1:12 emptied 51:34; Isaiah 24:3; Nahum 2:2,10 thereof 29; Isaiah 16:6; Ezekiel 16:49,50 remained Heb. stood.

Verse 12 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.

wanderers 8,15; 25:9; Isaiah 16:2; Ezekiel 25:9,10 empty 11,38; 14:3; 19:10; 25:34; Psalms 2:9; Isaiah 30:14; Nahum 2:2

Verse 13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.

ashamed 7,39,46; Judges 11:24; 1 Samuel 5:3-7; 1 Kings 11:7; 18:26-29,40; Isaiah 2:20; Isaiah 16:12; 45:16,20; 46:1,2 as the 1 Kings 12:28,29; Hosea 8:5,6; 10:5,6,14,15; Amos 5:5,6

Verse 14 How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?

How 8:8; Psalms 11:1; Isaiah 36:4,5 We 9:23; 49:16; Psalms 33:16; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Isaiah 10:13,16; 16:6; Ezekiel 30:6; Zephaniah 2:10

Verse 15 Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

spoiled 8,9-25 his chosen Heb. the choice of his, etc. Isaiah 40:30,31 gone 4; 50:27; 51:40; Isaiah 34:2-8 saith 46:18; 51:57; Psalms 24:8-10; 47:2; Daniel 4:37; Zechariah 14:9; Malachi 1:14; Revelation 19:16 whose James 5:4

Verse 16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.

near

1:12; Deuteronomy 32:35; Isaiah 13:22; 16:13,14; Ezekiel 12:23,28; 2 Peter 2:3

Verse 17 All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod!

bemoan 31-33; 9:17-20; Isaiah 16:8; Revelation 18:14-20 How 39; Isaiah 9:4; 10:5; 14:4,5; Ezekiel 19:11-14; Zechariah 11:10-14

Verse 18 Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds.

daughter 46:18,19; Isaiah 47:1 Dibon 22; Numbers 21:30; 32:3; Joshua 13:17; Isaiah 15:2 and sit Genesis 21:16; Exodus 17:3; Judges 15:18; Isaiah 5:13; Ezekiel 19:13 the spoiler

Verse 19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?

inhabitant Heb. inhabitress. Aroer. Numbers 32:34; Deuteronomy 2:36; 2 Samuel 24:5; 1 Chronicles 5:8 ask 1 Samuel 4:13,14,16; 2 Samuel 1:3,4; 18:24-32

Verse 20 Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,

confounded

1-5; Isaiah 15:1-5,8; 16:7-11 Arnon Numbers 21:13,14,26-28; Deuteronomy 2:36; Joshua 13:9; Judges 11:18; Isaiah 16:2

Verse 21 And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,

the plain 8; Ezekiel 25:9; Zephaniah 2:9 Jahazah Joshua 13:18 Jahaza Joshua 21:36,37; Isaiah 15:4 Jahaz

Verse 22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,

Dibon 1,18; Numbers 32:34 Beth-diblathaim Numbers 33:46 Almon-diblathaim Ezekiel 6:14 Diblath

Verse 23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon,

Kiriathaim 1; Genesis 14:5 Shaveh Kiriathaim Joshua 13:19 Kirjathaim Beth-meon. Numbers 32:38 Baal-meon

Joshua 13:17 Beth-baal-meon

Verse 24 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.

Kerioth 41; Amos 2:2 Bozrah Deuteronomy 4:43 Bezer Joshua 21:36 Bezor Zephaniah 2:8-10

Verse 25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.

horn Psalms 75:10; Lamentations 2:3; Daniel 7:8; 8:7-9,21; Zechariah 1:19-21 and his Numbers 32:37; Job 22:9; Psalms 10:15; 37:17; Ezekiel 30:21-25

Verse 26 Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

ye him 13:13,14; 25:15-17,27-29; 51:7,39,57; Psalms 60:3; 75:8; Isaiah 29:9; Isaiah 51:17; 63:6; Lamentations 3:15; 4:21; Ezekiel 23:31-34; Nahum 3:11; Revelation 16:19 for he 42; Exodus 5:2; 9:17; Job 9:4; Isaiah 10:15; Ezekiel 35:12,13; Daniel 5:23; Daniel 8:11,12; 11:36; Zephaniah 2:8-10; 2 Thessalonians 2:4 wallow Isaiah 19:14; 29:9; Habakkuk 2:16 and he also 39; Psalms 2:4; 59:8; Lamentations 1:21; Ezekiel 23:32

Verse 27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.

was not Psalms 44:13; 79:4; Proverbs 24:17,18; Lamentations 2:15-17; Ezekiel 25:8; 26:2,3; 35:15; Ezekiel 36:2,4; Obadiah 1:12,13; Micah 7:8-10; Zephaniah 2:8,10; Matthew 7:2 was he found 2:26; Matthew 26:55; 27:38 skippedst or, movedst thyself.

Verse 28 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.

leave 9; Judges 6:2; 1 Samuel 13:6; Isaiah 2:19; Obadiah 1:3,4 like 49:16; Psalms 55:6,7; Song of Solomon 2:14

Verse 29 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

heard Proverbs 8:13; Isaiah 16:6; Zephaniah 2:8-15 his loftiness Job 40:10-12; Psalms 138:6; Proverbs 18:12; 30:13; Isaiah 2:11,12; Daniel 4:37; Luke 14:11; James 4:6

Verse 30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.

know Isaiah 16:6; 37:28,29 his lies shall not so effect it

or, those on whom he stayeth (Heb. his bars) do not right. Baddim, as Lowth observes, sometimes means those who pretend to the art of divination. Though the soothsayers of Moab, upon whose skill she relies, promise him success, yet in the event it will appear there was no truth in what they said. 50:36; Job 9:12,13; Psalms 33:10; Proverbs 21:30

Verse 31 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.

will I howl Isaiah 15:5; 16:7-11 Kir-heres 36; 2 Kings 3:25 Kar-haraseth Isaiah 16:7 Kir-hareseth

Verse 32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.

vine Numbers 32:38 Shibmah Joshua 13:19; Isaiah 16:8,9 Jazer Numbers 21:32 Jaazer Numbers 32:1,35; Joshua 21:39 the spoiler 8,15,18; 40:10

Verse 33 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with

shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting. joy 25:9,10; Isaiah 9:3; 16:9; 24:7-12; 32:9-14; Joel 1:12,16; Revelation 18:22,23 caused Isaiah 5:10; 7:23; 16:10; Joel 1:5,12,13; Haggai 2:16

Verse 34 From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.

the cry 2; Isaiah 15:4-6 Elealeh Numbers 32:37 Jahaz Jahazah Zoar. 3,5; Deuteronomy 34:3; Isaiah 15:5 as an heifer of As a young cow, when deprived of her first calf; which runs about from place to place, filling the air with loud and repeated lowings, expressive of the deepest distress. Nimrim Numbers 32:3 Nimrah Numbers 32:36 Beth-nimrah Isaiah 15:6 desolate Heb. desolations.

Verse 35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.

him that offereth

7; Numbers 22:40,41; 28:14,28-30; Isaiah 15:2; 16:12

Verse 36 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.

mine heart 4:19; Isaiah 15:5; 16:11; 63:15 Kir-heres the riches 17:11; Proverbs 11:4; 13:22; 18:11; Ecclesiastes 5:13,14; Isaiah 15:7; Luke 12:20,21; James 5:2,3

Verse 37 For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

every head 16:6; 41:5; 47:5; Isaiah 3:24; 15:2,3; Ezekiel 7:18; 27:31; Amos 8:10; Micah 1:16 clipped Heb. diminished. cuttings. Leviticus 19:28; 1 Kings 18:28; Mark 5:5 upon the loins Genesis 37:29,34; 1 Kings 21:27; 2 Kings 6:30; Isaiah 20:2; 37:1; Revelation 11:3

Verse 38 There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.

upon Isaiah 15:3; 22:1 broken 22:28; 25:34; Psalms 2:9; Isaiah 30:14; Hosea 8:8; Romans 9:21,22; 2 Timothy 2:20,21; Revelation 2:27

Verse 39 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.

How is it 17; Lamentations 1:1; 2:1; 4:1; Revelation 18:9,10,15,16 back Heb. neck. a derision. 26,27; Isaiah 20:4-6; Ezekiel 26:16-18

Verse 40 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.

he shall 4:13; Deuteronomy 28:49; Lamentations 4:19; Ezekiel 17:3; Daniel 7:4; Hosea 8:1 spread 49:22; Isaiah 8:8

Verse 41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

Kerioth or, The cities. as the heart 4:31; 6:24; 30:6; 49:22,24; 50:43; 51:30; Isaiah 13:8; 21:3; 26:17,18; Micah 4:9,10; 1 Thessalonians 5:3

Verse 42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.

Moab Moab has long since ceased to be a nation; while the Jews, agreeably to the Divine promise, (ch. 46:28,) though successively subdued and oppressed by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Syro-Macedonians, and Romans, (which have also all passed away, and are no more,) and dispersed over the face of the earth, subsist to this day as a distinct

people from all the nations of the world! from 2; 30:11; Esther 3:8-13; Psalms 83:4-8; Isaiah 7:8; Matthew 7:2 magnified 26-30; Proverbs 16:18; Isaiah 37:23; Daniel 11:36; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Revelation 13:6

Verse 43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.

Deuteronomy 32:23-25; Psalms 11:6; Isaiah 24:17,18; Lamentations 3:47

Verse 44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.

that fleeth 16:16; 1 Kings 19:17; 20:30; Isaiah 37:36-38; Amos 2:14,15; 5:19; 9:1-4 the year 8:12; 10:15; 11:23; 23:12; 46:21; 51:18; Isaiah 10:3; Hosea 9:7; Micah 7:4

Verse 45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

a fire Numbers 21:28; Amos 2:2 devour Numbers 24:17; Zechariah 10:4; Matthew 21:42 tumultuous ones Heb. children of noise.

Verse 46 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.

Woe Numbers 21:29 the people 7,13; Judges 11:24; 1 Kings 11:7; 2 Kings 23:13 captives Heb. in captivity.

Verse 47 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

Yet will I bring Many of the Moabites were afterwards restored to their country by Cyrus, as we learn from Josephus; but they never were restored to their national consequence; and perhaps their restoration in the latter days refers to the conversion of their scattered remnants to the gospel. 46:26; 49:6,39; Isaiah 18:7; 19:18-23; 23:18; Ezekiel 16:53-55 in the latter 23:20; 30:24; Numbers 24:14; Deuteronomy 4:30; 31:29; Job 19:25; Ezekiel 38:8; Daniel 2:28; Daniel 10:14; Hosea 3:5

49 Chapter 49

Introduction

1 The judgment of the Ammonites.

6 Their restoration.

7 The judgment of Edom;

23 of Damascus;

28 of Kedar;

30 of Hazor;

34 and of Elam.

39 The restoration of Elam.

Verse 1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he

no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities? A. M. 3421. B.C. 583. Concerning. or, Against 7,23,28; 48:1 Ammonites 25:9,21; 27:3; Genesis 19:38; Deuteronomy 2:19; 23:3; 2 Chronicles 20:1,23; Psalms 83:7; Ezekiel 21:28-32; 25:2-10; Amos 1:13-15; Zephaniah 2:8-11 their king or, Melcom. Judges 10:7,8; 11:13-15; 1 Samuel 11:1-3; 2 Kings 10:33; 24:2; Nehemiah 2:19; 4:7; Nehemiah 13:1,2 cities Psalms 9:6

Verse 2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.

that I will 4:19; Ezekiel 25:4-6; Amos 1:14 Rabbah Deuteronomy 3:11; Joshua 13:24,25; Ezekiel 21:20 Rabbath her daughters Numbers 21:25; *marg:; 2 Samuel 11:1; 12:27-29; Psalms 48:11; 97:8; Ezekiel 16:46-55 shall Israel 1; Isaiah 14:1-3; Obadiah 1:19

Verse 3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.

Howl 48:20; 51:8; Isaiah 13:6; 14:31; 15:2; 16:7; 23:1,6; James 5:1

gird 4:8; 6:26; 48:37; Isaiah 32:11,12 run Job 30:3-7; Isaiah 15:2 their king or, Melcom. 1; 1 Kings 11:5,33; 2 Kings 23:13 Milcom Zephaniah 1:5 Malcham shall go 46:25; 48:7; Amos 1:15

Verse 4 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?

gloriest 9:23; Isaiah 28:1-4; 47:7,8; Revelation 18:7 thy flowing valley or, they valley floweth away. O backsliding. 3:14; 7:24; Hosea 4:16 trusted 48:7; Psalms 49:6; 52:7; 62:10; Proverbs 10:15; Ezekiel 28:4-7; 1 Timothy 6:17 Who 16; 21:13; Obadiah 1:4,5

Verse 5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.

I will 29; 15:8; 20:4; 48:41-44; Joshua 2:9; 2 Kings 7:6,7; 19:7; Job 15:21; Proverbs 28:1 ye shall 46:5; Amos 4:3

none Isaiah 16:3; Obadiah 1:12-14

Verse 6 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the LORD.

39; 46:26; 48:47; Isaiah 19:18-23; 23:18; Ezekiel 16:53

Verse 7 Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?

Edom 25:9,21; Genesis 25:30; 27:41; 36:8; Numbers 20:14-21; 24:17,18; Deuteronomy 23:7; Psalms 83:4-10; 137:7; Isaiah 34:1-17; 63:1-6; Ezekiel 25:12-14; 35:1-15; Daniel 11:41; Joel 3:19; Amos 1:11,12; Obadiah 1:1-9; Malachi 1:3,4 Is wisdom 18:18; Job 5:12-14; Isaiah 19:11-13; 29:14; Obadiah 1:8; Romans 1:22,23 Teman 20; Genesis 36:11,15; 1 Chronicles 1:53; Job 2:11; 4:1; Ezekiel 25:13; Amos 1:12; Obadiah 1:9; Habakkuk 3:3

Verse 8 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.

Flee 30; 6:1; 48:6; Matthew 24:15-18; Revelation 6:15 turn back or, they are turned back. dwell. 48:28; Judges 6:2; 1 Samuel 13:6; Isaiah 2:21; Amos 9:1-3; Obadiah 1:3,4 Dedan 25:23; Isaiah 21:13 for 32; 46:21; 48:44; Lamentations 4:21,22

Verse 9

If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.

grape-gatherers Isaiah 17:6; Obadiah 1:5,6 till they have enough Heb. their sufficiency.

Verse 10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.

I have made Malachi 1:3,4; Romans 9:13 his secret 23:24; Isaiah 45:3; Amos 9:3 his seed Psalms 37:28; Isaiah 14:20-22; Obadiah 1:9 he is not Psalms 37:35,36; Isaiah 17:14

Verse 11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

thy fatherless Deuteronomy 10:18; Psalms 10:14-18; 68:5; 82:3; 146:9; Proverbs 23:10,11; Hosea 14:3; Jonah 4:11; Malachi 3:5; James 1:27 let thy 1 Timothy 5:5

Verse 12 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.

they whose 25:28,29; 30:11; 46:27; Proverbs 17:5; Lamentations 4:21,22; Obadiah 1:16; 1 Peter 4:17,18

Verse 13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

I have 44:26; Genesis 22:16; Isaiah 45:23; Ezekiel 35:11; Amos 6:8 Bozrah 22; Genesis 36:33; Isaiah 34:6; 63:1; Amos 1:12 a desolation 17,18; Isaiah 34:9-15; Ezekiel 25:13,14; 35:2-15; Joel 3:19; Obadiah 1:18; Malachi 1:3,4

Verse 14 I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.

heard 51:46; Isaiah 37:7; Ezekiel 7:25,26; Obadiah 1:1; Matthew 24:6 an ambassador Isaiah 18:2,3; 30:4 Gather 50:9-16; 51:11,27,28; Isaiah 13:2,3

Verse 15 For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.

1 Samuel 2:7,8,30; Psalms 53:5; Obadiah 1:2; Micah 7:10; Luke 1:51

Verse 16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.

terribleness 48:29; Proverbs 16:18; 18:21; 29:23; Isaiah 25:4,5; 49:25; Obadiah 1:3 dwellest

Song of Solomon 2:14; Isaiah 2:21 though 48:28; Job 39:27; Isaiah 14:13-15; Ezekiel 28:11-19; Amos 9:2; Obadiah 1:4

Verse 17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.

Edom 13; Isaiah 34:9-15; Ezekiel 25:13; 35:7,15 every 18:16; 50:13 shall hiss 51:37; 1 Kings 9:8; 2 Chronicles 7:20,21; Lamentations 2:15,16; Micah 6:16; Zephaniah 2:15

Verse 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.

in the 50:40; Genesis 19:24,25; Deuteronomy 29:23; Psalms 11:6; Isaiah 13:19-22; Amos 4:11; Zephaniah 2:9; 2 Peter 2:6; Jude 1:7 no man 33; Job 18:15-18; Isaiah 34:10; Revelation 18:21-23

Verse 19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

he shall come 4:7; 50:44-46; Zechariah 11:3 the swelling 12:5; Joshua 3:15; 1 Chronicles 12:15 who is like Exodus 15:11; Psalms 89:6,8; 113:5,6; Isaiah 40:25

appoint me the time or, convent me in judgment. Job 9:19,21; 23:3-7; 40:2-8; 42:3-5; Psalms 143:2 that shepherd 30:21; Job 41:10; Psalms 76:7; Nahum 1:6; Revelation 6:17

Verse 20 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.

the counsel 50:45; Psalms 33:11; Proverbs 19:21; Isaiah 14:24-27; 46:10,11; Acts 4:28; Ephesians 1:11 Teman 7; Job 6:19,20 Surely The prophet having given the name of the shepherd to the generals of the army, pursues the same metaphor, calling the common soldiers, "the least of the flock;" who shall have strength and courage enough to the defeat the Idumean forces. 37:10; 50:45; Zechariah 4:6; 1 Corinthians 1:27-29 make 13,17,18; Malachi 1:3,4

Verse 21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.

earth 50:46; Isaiah 14:4-15; Ezekiel 26:15-18; 21:16; 32:10; Revelation 18:10 Red sea Heb. Weedy sea.

Verse 22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the

heart of a woman in her pangs. he shall 4:13; 48:40,41; Deuteronomy 28:49; Daniel 7:4; Hosea 8:1 Bozrah the heart of the 24; 4:31; 6:24; 13:21; 22:23; 30:6; 48:41; Psalms 18:5; Isaiah 13:8; 21:3; Isaiah 26:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:3

Verse 23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

Damascus Genesis 14:15; 15:2; 1 Kings 11:24; Isaiah 17:1-3; 37:13; Amos 1:3-5; Zechariah 9:1,2; 2 Corinthians 11:32 Hamath Numbers 13:21; 2 Samuel 8:9; 2 Kings 17:24; 18:34; 19:13; Isaiah 10:9; 11:11 faint-hearted Heb. melted. Deuteronomy 20:8; *marg:; Joshua 2:11; 14:8; 2 Samuel 17:10; Isaiah 13:7; Nahum 2:10 sorrow Isaiah 57:20 on the sea or, as on the sea. Psalms 107:26,27; Luke 8:23,24; 21:25,26; Acts 27:20

Verse 24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.

anguish

Verse 25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!

33:9; 48:2,39; 51:41; Psalms 37:35,36; Isaiah 1:26; 14:4-6; Daniel 4:30; Revelation 18:10,16-19

Verse 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.

9:21; 11:22; 50:30; 51:3,4; Lamentations 2:21; Ezekiel 27:27; Amos 4:10

Verse 27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.

I will Amos 1:3-5 Ben-hadad 1 Kings 15:18-20; 20:1-22; 2 Kings 13:5

Verse 28 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.

Kedar 2:10; Genesis 25:13; 1 Chronicles 1:29; Song of Solomon 1:5; Isaiah 21:13,16,17; 42:11; Ezekiel 27:21 Hazor 30,33 Arise 14,31; 50:14-16; Isaiah 13:2-5 spoil Genesis 25:6; Judges 6:3; Job 1:3; Isaiah 11:14

Verse 29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.

tents Psalms 120:5; Isaiah 13:20; 60:7 curtains 4:20; 10:20; Habakkuk 3:7

camels Genesis 37:25; Judges 6:5; 7:12; 8:21,26; 1 Chronicles 5:20,21; Job 1:3 Fear 24; 6:25; 20:3,4; *marg:; 46:5; Psalms 31:13; 2 Corinthians 4:8; 7:5

Verse 30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.

get you far off Heb. flit greatly. dwell. for 25:9,24,25; 27:6; Isaiah 10:7

Verse 31 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.

wealthy nations or, nation that is at ease. 48:11; Psalms 123:4; Isaiah 32:9,11 that Judges 18:7-10,27; Isaiah 47:8; Ezekiel 30:9; 38:11; 39:6; Nahum 1:12; Zephaniah 2:15 which dwell Numbers 23:9; Deuteronomy 33:28; Judges 18:28; Micah 7:14

Verse 32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.

their camels I will scatter 36; Deuteronomy 28:64; Ezekiel 5:10,12; 12:14,15 in the utmost corners Heb. cut off into corners, or, that have the corners of their hair polled. 9:26; 25:23; *margins

Verse 33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.

Hazor Hazor as well as Kedar, with which it is joined, (ver. 28,) was no doubt situated in Arabia, and a place of considerable importance; but it is now no more, and its very name seems to have perished. a dwelling 17,18; 9:11; 10:22; 50:39,40; 51:37; Isaiah 13:20-22; 14:23; 34:9-17; Zephaniah 2:9,13-15; Malachi 1:3; Revelation 18:2,21,22

Verse 34 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

Cir A.M. 3406. B.C. 598. Elam. Elam, the Elymaïs of the Greeks and Romans, was properly a province of the Persian empire, between Media and Susiana; but sometimes the name Elam is used in a larger sense, including Susiana and other provinces, (see Da 8:2,) all of which were subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, and afterwards restored and raised to dignity by Cyrus. 25:25; Genesis 10:22; 14:1; Ezra 4:9; Isaiah 21:2; Ezekiel 32:24,25; Daniel 8:2; Acts 2:9

Verse 35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.

break 50:14,29; 51:56; Psalms 46:9; Isaiah 22:6 the bow Strabo says that the mountainous part of Elymaïs chiefly bred archers; and Livy speaks of Elymæi sagittarii, "the Elymean archers."

Verse 36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and

will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.

the four winds Daniel 7:2,3; 8:8,22; 11:4; Revelation 7:1 scatter 32; Deuteronomy 28:25,64; Ezekiel 5:10,12; Amos 9:9 the outcasts 30:17; Psalms 147:2; Isaiah 11:12; 16:3,4; 27:13; 56:8

Verse 37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:

to be 5,22,24,29; 48:39; 50:36; Psalms 48:4-6; Ezekiel 32:23; *marg: their enemies 34:20,21 I will send the sword 9:16; 48:2; Leviticus 26:33; Ezekiel 5:2,12; 12:14

Verse 38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.

43:10; Daniel 7:9-14

Verse 39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.

in the 48:47; Isaiah 2:2; Ezekiel 38:16; Daniel 2:28; 10:14; Hosea 3:5; Micah 4:1 I will 6; Job 42:10; Ezekiel 16:53-55; 29:14; 39:25; Amos 9:14

50 Chapter 50

Introduction

1 The judgment of Babylon and the redemption of Israel.

Verse 1 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.

A. M. 3409. B.C. 595. against Babylon 25:26,27; 27:7; 51:1-14; Psalms 137:8,9; Isaiah 13:1-3; 14:4; 21:1-10; Isaiah 47:1-15; Habakkuk 2:5-20; Revelation 18:1-24 the land Genesis 11:31; Job 1:17; Isaiah 23:13; Acts 7:4 Jeremiah Heb. the hand of Jeremiah 2 Samuel 23:2; 2 Peter 1:21

Verse 2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

Declare 6:18; 31:10; 46:14; Psalms 64:9; 96:3; Isaiah 12:4; 48:6; 66:18,19; Revelation 14:6-8 set up Heb. lift up. Isaiah 13:2 Babylon 51:8; Isaiah 21:9; Revelation 14:8; 18:2 Bel 51:44; Isaiah 46:1 Merodach 52:31; Isaiah 39:1 her idols 46; 43:12,13; Isaiah 37:19; Zephaniah 2:11; after:; Jer:; 47,:

Verse 3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her

land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

out of the The Medes, who formed the greatest part of the army of Cyrus. Media lay N.E. of Babylon. 9,41; 51:11,27,48; Isaiah 13:5,17,18,20 which 12,13,35-40; 51:8,9,25,26,37-44,62; Isaiah 13:6-10,19-22; 14:22-24; Revelation 18:21-23 both 7:20; 21:6; Genesis 6:7; Exodus 12:12; Zephaniah 1:3

Verse 4 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.

those 20; 3:16-18; 33:15; 51:47,48; Isaiah 63:4 the children of Israel 19,20,33,34; 3:18; 33:6-8; 30:10,11; 31:6,7,31; 33:7; Isaiah 11:12,13; Isaiah 14:1; Ezekiel 37:16-22; 39:25; Hosea 1:11 going 31:9,10; Ezra 3:12,13; Psalms 126:4-6; Joel 2:12; Zechariah 12:10; James 4:9 seek the 29:12-14; Psalms 105:4; Isaiah 45:19; 55:6; Hosea 3:5; Zechariah 8:21-23

Verse 5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

ask 6:16; Psalms 25:8,9; 84:7; Isaiah 35:8; John 7:17 Come 31:31-36; Isaiah 2:3-5; Micah 4:1,2; Acts 11:23; 2 Corinthians 8:5 in a

32:40; Genesis 17:7; 2 Samuel 23:5; Isaiah 55:3; 56:6,7 that shall 32:40; 1 Kings 19:10,14; Hebrews 8:6-10

Verse 6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.

people 17; Psalms 119:176; Isaiah 53:6; Matthew 9:36; 10:6; 15:24; 18:11-13; Luke 15:4-7; 1 Peter 2:25 their shepherds 10:21; 23:11-15; Isaiah 56:10-12; Ezekiel 34:4-12; Zechariah 11:4-9 on the 2:20; 3:6,23; Ezekiel 34:6 have forgotten 2:32; Psalms 32:7; 90:1; 91:1; 116:7; Isaiah 30:15; 32:2 resting place Heb. place to lie down in. Psalms 23:2; Song of Solomon 1:7,8; Ezekiel 34:14,25-28

Verse 7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

have devoured 17,33; 12:7-11; Psalms 79:7; Isaiah 9:12; 56:9 We offend 2:3; 40:2,3; Isaiah 47:6; Daniel 9:6,16; Zechariah 1:15; 11:5 the habitation 31:23; Psalms 90:1; 91:1 the hope 14:8; Psalms 22:4,5; 1 Timothy 1:1

Verse 8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the

Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks. out of the midst 51:6,45; Numbers 16:26; Isaiah 48:20; 52:1; Zechariah 2:6,7; 2 Corinthians 6:17; Revelation 18:4 he goats Proverbs 30:31

Verse 9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

I will raise 3,21,26,41,42; 15:14; 51:1-4,11,27,28; Ezra 1:1,2; Isaiah 13:2-5,17; Isaiah 21:2; 41:25; 45:1-4 an assembly The army of Cyrus was composed of Medes, Persians, Armenians, Caducians, Sacæ, etc.; all of which, arranged under the Medes, came from the north. they shall 14,29 expert man or, destroyer. none. 2 Samuel 1:22; Isaiah 13:18

Verse 10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.

Chaldea 25:12; 27:7 all that Isaiah 33:4,23; 45:3; Revelation 17:16

Verse 11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

ye were Proverbs 17:5; Lamentations 1:21; 2:15,16; 4:21,22; Ezekiel 25:3-8,15-17; 26:2,3; Obadiah 1:12 ye destroyers 17; 51:34,35; Psalms 74:2-8; 79:1-4; 83:1-5; Isaiah 10:6,7; 47:6; Zechariah 2:8,9; 14:1-3,12 ye are 27; 46:21; Deuteronomy 32:15; Psalms 22:12; Hosea 10:11; Amos 4:1 fat Heb. big. or, corpulent. 5:28 bellow as bulls or, neigh as steeds. 5:8

Verse 12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

mother 49:2; Galatians 4:26; Revelation 17:5 the hindermost 25:26; Isaiah 23:13 a wilderness 35-40; 25:12; 51:25,26,43,62-64; Isaiah 13:20-22; 14:22; Revelation 18:21-23

Verse 13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

Because Zechariah 1:15 every 18:16; 19:8; 25:12; 49:17; 51:37; Job 27:23; Isaiah 14:4-17; Lamentations 2:15,16; Habakkuk 2:6-18; Zephaniah 2:15

Verse 14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD.

in array 9; 51:2,11,12,27; 1 Samuel 17:20; 2 Samuel 10:9; Isaiah 13:4,17,18 bend 29,42; 46:9; 49:35; Isaiah 5:28 for she 7,11,29; Psalms 51:4; Habakkuk 2:8,17; Revelation 17:5

Verse 15 Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.

Shout 51:14; Joshua 6:5,20; Ezekiel 21:22 she hath 1 Chronicles 29:24; *marg:; 2 Chronicles 30:8; *marg:; Lamentations 5:6; Ezekiel 17:18 her foundations 51:25,44,58,64 for it 14,28; 46:10; 51:6,11,36; Deuteronomy 32:35,41,43; Psalms 94:1; 149:7; Isaiah 59:17; Isaiah 61:2; 63:4; Nahum 1:2; Luke 21:22; Romans 3:5; 12:19; 2 Thessalonians 1:8 as she 29; Judges 1:6,7; 1 Samuel 15:33; Psalms 137:8,9; Matthew 7:2; James 2:13; Revelation 16:6; Revelation 18:6; 19:2

Verse 16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

the sower 51:23; Joel 1:11; Amos 5:16

sickle or, scythe. they shall turn every one. 46:16; 51:9; Isaiah 13:14

Verse 17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

a scattered 6; 23:1,2; Ezekiel 34:5,6,12; Joel 3:2; Matthew 9:36-38; Luke 15:4-6; John 10:10-12; 1 Peter 2:25 the lions 2:15; 5:6; 49:19; 51:38 first 2 Kings 15:29; 17:6-23; 18:9-13; 2 Chronicles 28:20; 32:1-23; 33:11; Isaiah 7:17-20; Isaiah 8:7,8; 10:5-7; 36:1-37 this 39:1-8; 51:34,35; 52:1; 2 Kings 24:1-25; 2 Chronicles 36:1-23; Isaiah 47:6; Daniel 6:24

Verse 18 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.

as I Isaiah 37:36-38; Ezekiel 31:3-17; Nahum 1:1-3; Zephaniah 2:13-15

Verse 19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.

bring 4,5; 3:18; 23:3; 24:6,7; 30:10,18; 31:8-10; 32:37; 33:7-12; Isaiah 65:9; Isaiah 65:10; Ezekiel 11:17; 34:13,14; 36:24,33; 37:21,22; 38:8; 39:25-29; Amos 9:14,15; Obadiah 1:17-21 he shall Isaiah 33:9; 35:2; Micah 7:14,18 his soul

31:14,25 mount 31:6; Joshua 17:15 Gilead Numbers 32:1; Song of Solomon 6:5; Obadiah 1:19

Verse 20 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.

In those 4; 33:15 the iniquity 31:34; Numbers 23:21; Isaiah 11:1,2; 43:25; 44:22; Micah 7:19; Acts 3:19,26; Romans 8:33,34; Hebrews 8:10-12; 10:17,18 and there Psalms 103:12; Romans 5:16; 2 Peter 3:15 I will pardon 44:14; Isaiah 1:9; Micah 7:19; Romans 6:13; 11:6,26,27

Verse 21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

up 3,9,15 Merathaim or, the rebels. Pekod. or, visitation. Ezekiel 23:23 and do 34:22; 48:10; Numbers 31:14-18; 1 Samuel 15:3,11-24; 2 Samuel 16:11; 2 Kings 18:25; 2 Chronicles 36:23; Isaiah 10:6; 44:28; 48:14

Verse 22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

4:19-21; 51:54-56; Isaiah 21:2-4

Verse 23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

51:20-24; Isaiah 14:4-6,12-17; Revelation 18:16

Verse 24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

snare Ecclesiastes 9:12 and thou wast 51:8,31-39,57; Isaiah 21:3-5; Daniel 5:30,31; Revelation 18:7,8 because Exodus 10:3; Job 9:4; 40:2,9; Isaiah 13:11; 45:9; 2 Thessalonians 2:4

Verse 25 The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

opened 35-38; 51:11,20; Psalms 45:3,5; Isaiah 13:2-5,17,18; 21:7-9 this 15; 51:12,25,55; Isaiah 14:22-24; 46:10,11; 48:14,15; Amos 3:6; Revelation 18:8

Verse 26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

against 41; 51:27,28; Isaiah 5:26 the utmost Heb. the end. open. 10; 51:44; Isaiah 45:3 cast her up

or, tread her. Isaiah 10:6; 25:10; 63:3,4; Micah 7:10; Revelation 14:19; 19:15 destroy 13,15,23; 51:25,26,64; Isaiah 14:23; Revelation 18:21-24

Verse 27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

bullocks 11; 46:21; Psalms 22:12; Isaiah 34:7; Ezekiel 39:17-20; Revelation 19:17 their day 31; 27:7; 48:44; Psalms 37:13; Lamentations 1:21; Ezekiel 7:5-7; Revelation 16:17-19; 18:10

Verse 28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.

voice 51:50,51; Isaiah 48:20 to declare 15; 51:10,11; Psalms 149:6-9; Daniel 5:3-5,23; Zechariah 12:2,3 vengeance of his Lamentations 1:10; 2:6,7

Verse 29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

the archers 9,14,26 recompense 15; 51:56; Psalms 137:8,9; Revelation 16:6; 18:6 for she hath 24,32; Exodus 10:3; Isaiah 14:13,14; 37:23; 47:10; Daniel 4:37; 5:23; 11:36; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Revelation 13:5,6

Verse 30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.

Therefore Gobrias and Gadates, when they entered Babylon, marched directly to the palace, killing all they met. her young 9:21; 18:21; 48:15; 49:26; 51:3,4; Isaiah 13:15-18 all her 36; 51:56,57; Revelation 6:15; 19:18

Verse 31 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.

I am 21:13; 51:25; Ezekiel 5:8; 29:3,9,10; 38:3; 39:1; Nahum 2:13; 3:5 O thou 29,32; 48:29; 49:16; Job 40:11,12; Daniel 4:30,31; Habakkuk 2:4,5; James 4:6; 1 Peter 5:5 most proud Heb. pride. for.

Verse 32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

the most proud Heb. pride. Proverbs 16:18; 18:12; Isaiah 10:12-15; 14:13-15; Ezekiel 28:2-9; Daniel 5:20,23-30 none 51:26,64; Revelation 18:8 kindle 21:14; 49:27; Deuteronomy 32:22; Amos 1:4,7,10,12,14; 2:2,5

Verse 33

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

and all 7,17,18; 51:34-36; Isaiah 14:17; 47:6; 49:24-26; 51:23; 52:4-6; Zechariah 1:15,16 they refused 34:15-18; Exodus 5:2; 8:2; 9:2,3,17,18; Isaiah 14:17; 58:6

Verse 34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

Redeemer Exodus 6:6; Proverbs 23:11; Isaiah 41:14; 43:14; 44:6,23,24; 47:4; 54:5; Micah 4:10; Revelation 18:8 plead 51:36; Psalms 35:1; 43:1; Proverbs 22:23; Isaiah 51:22; Micah 7:9 that he Isaiah 14:3-7; 2 Thessalonians 1:6,7; Revelation 19:1-3

Verse 35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

sword 47:6; Leviticus 26:25; Isaiah 66:16; Ezekiel 14:2; Hosea 11:6; Zechariah 11:17 upon her princes 27,30; 51:39,57; Isaiah 41:25; Daniel 5:1,2,30 her wise men 8:9; 10:7; Isaiah 19:11-13; 29:14; 44:25; 47:13,14; Daniel 5:7,8

Verse 36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

upon the liars

or, upon the chief stays. Heb. bars. 48:30; Isaiah 43:14; *marg:; Isaiah 44:25; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11; 1 Timothy 4:2; Revelation 19:20; 21:8; 22:15 dote 2 Samuel 15:31; 17:14; 2 Chronicles 25:16; Isaiah 47:10-15; 1 Timothy 6:4 her mighty 30; 49:22; 51:23,30,32; Nahum 2:8; 3:7,13,17,18

Verse 37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.

their horses 51:21; Psalms 20:7,8; 46:9; 76:6; Ezekiel 39:20; Nahum 2:2-4,13; Haggai 2:22 all the 25:20,24; Ezekiel 30:5 as women 48:41; 51:30; Isaiah 19:16; Nahum 3:13 her treasures 26; Isaiah 45:3

Verse 38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

A drought 12; 51:32-36; Isaiah 44:27; Revelation 16:12; 17:15,16 the land 2; 51:44,47,52; Isaiah 46:1-7; Daniel 3:1-30; 5:4; Habakkuk 2:18,19; Revelation 17:5 mad 51:7; Isaiah 44:25; Acts 17:16

Verse 39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for

ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. 12,13; 25:12; 51:26,37,38,43,62-64; Isaiah 13:20-22; 14:23; 34:11-17; Revelation 18:2,21-24

Verse 40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

49:18; 51:26; Genesis 19:24,25; Deuteronomy 29:23; Isaiah 1:9; 13:19,20; Hosea 11:8,9; Amos 4:11; Zephaniah 2:9; Luke 17:28-30; 2 Peter 2:6; Jude 1:7; Revelation 11:8; 18:8,9

Verse 41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

2,3,9; 6:22,23; 25:14; 51:1,2,11,27,28; Isaiah 13:2-5,17,18; Revelation 17:16

Verse 42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

hold 6:22,23 they are cruel Psalms 74:20; 137:8,9; Isaiah 13:17,18; 14:6; 47:6; Habakkuk 1:6-8; James 2:13; Revelation 16:6 their voice Psalms 46:2,3,6; Isaiah 5:30 shall ride 8:16; 47:3; Isaiah 5:28; Habakkuk 1:8; Revelation 19:14-18

Verse 43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

king

51:31; Isaiah 13:6-8; 21:3,4; Daniel 5:5,6 pangs 49:22,24

Verse 44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

like a lion 25:38; 49:19-21 who is a Job 41:10,11; Isaiah 41:25; 46:11 for who Exodus 15:11; Psalms 89:6,8; Isaiah 40:18,25; 43:10 appoint me the time or, convent me to plead. who is that. 49:19; Job 41:10

Verse 45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.

hear 51:10,11; Psalms 33:10,11; Isaiah 14:24-27; 46:10,11; Acts 4:28; Ephesians 1:11; Revelation 17:16,17 the least 37:10; 49:20 surely he We have already adverted to the completion of the prophecies respecting the final destruction of Babylon, (on Isa 13:18,) and shall only add a few more observations, in order to shew more clearly the full accomplishment of some of these predictions. Strabo says that in his time (about the Christian era) a great part of it was a desert. Jerome says that in his time (cir. A.D. 340) it was quite in ruins, the walls merely serving for an

inclosure for wild beasts, for the hunting of the kings of Parthia: and modern travellers universally concur in describing it in a state of utter desolation, and the habitation of wild beasts and noxious reptiles.

Verse 46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

49:21; Isaiah 14:9,10; Ezekiel 26:18; 31:16; 32:10; Revelation 18:9-19

51 Chapter 51

Introduction

1 The severe judgment of God against Babylon, in revenge of Israel.

59 Jeremiah delivers the book of this prophecy to Seraiah, to be cast into Euphrates, in token of the perpetual sinking of Babylon.

Verse 1 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;

I will 50:9,14-16,21; Isaiah 13:3-5; Amos 3:6 midst Heb. heart. rise. 50:24,29,33; Zechariah 2:8; Acts 9:4 a destroying wind 4:11,12; 49:36; 2 Kings 19:7; Ezekiel 19:12; Hosea 13:15

Verse 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

fanners 15:7; Isaiah 41:16; Ezekiel 5:12; Matthew 3:12 in the day 27,28; 50:14,15,29,32

Verse 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

let the 50:14,41,42 brigandine 46:4 spare 9:21; 50:27,30; Deuteronomy 32:25; Psalms 137:9; Isaiah 13:10-18; James 2:13 destroy 50:21

Verse 4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

thrust 49:26; 50:30,37; Isaiah 13:15; 14:19

Verse 5 For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

Israel 33:24-26; 46:28; 50:4,5,20; 1 Samuel 12:22; 1 Kings 6:13; Ezra 9:9; Psalms 94:14; Isaiah 44:21; 49:14,15; 54:3-11; 62:12; Hosea 1:10; Amos 9:8,9; Romans 11:1,2 nor Zechariah 2:12; 12:6,8 though 16:18; 19:4; 23:15; 31:37; 2 Kings 21:16; Ezekiel 8:17; 9:9; 22:24-31; Hosea 4:1; Micah 7:18,20; Zephaniah 3:1-4

Verse 6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in

her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.

Flee 9,45,50; 50:8,28; Isaiah 48:20; Zechariah 2:6,7; Revelation 18:4 be not Genesis 19:15-17; Numbers 16:26; Proverbs 13:20; 1 Timothy 5:22 for this 11; 27:7; 46:10; 50:8,15,28,31; Deuteronomy 32:25,41,43; Revelation 16:19; 18:5,6 he will render 25:14,16

Verse 7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

a golden Isaiah 14:4; Daniel 2:32,38; Revelation 17:4 the nations 25:9,14-27; Daniel 3:1-7; Habakkuk 2:15,16; Revelation 14:8; 17:2; 18:3,23; 19:2 are mad 25:16; 50:38

Verse 8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

suddenly 41; 50:2; Isaiah 21:9; 47:9; Revelation 14:8; 18:2,8 howl 48:20,31; Isaiah 13:6,7; Ezekiel 27:30-32; 30:2; Daniel 5:24,31; Revelation 18:9-11; Revelation 18:17-19 take balm 8:22; 30:12-15; 46:11; Nahum 3:19

Verse 9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go

every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

forsake 8:20; 46:16,21; 50:16; Isaiah 13:14; 47:15; Matthew 25:10-13 her judgment 2 Chronicles 28:9; Ezra 9:6; Daniel 4:20-22; Revelation 18:5

Verse 10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.

brought Psalms 37:6; Micah 7:9,10 let us 31:6-9; 50:28; Psalms 9:14; 102:19-21; 116:18,19; 126:1-3; Isaiah 40:2; Isaiah 51:11; 52:9,10; Revelation 14:1-3; 19:1-6

Verse 11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

Make 46:4,9; 50:9,14,25,28,29; Isaiah 21:5 bright Heb. pure. the Lord hath. 27,28; 1 Kings 11:14,23; 1 Chronicles 5:26; 2 Chronicles 36:22; Ezra 1:1; Isaiah 10:26; 13:17; Isaiah 13:18; 21:2; 41:25; 45:1,5; 46:11; Revelation 17:16,17 the spirit Of Cyaxares king of Media, called "Darius the Mede" in scripture; and of Cyrus his nephew, king of persia, presumptive heir of the throne of his uncle. his device 12,29; 50:45 the vengeance 24,35; 50:15,28; Psalms 74:3-11; 83:3-9; Habakkuk 2:17-20; Zechariah 12:2,3; Zechariah 14:2,12

Verse 12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.

the standard 46:3-5; Proverbs 21:30; Isaiah 8:9,10; 13:2; Joel 3:2,9-14; Nahum 2:1; 3:14,15 ambushes Heb. liers in wait. Joshua 8:14 the Lord hath both 11,29; Lamentations 2:17

Verse 13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.

dwellest 36; Revelation 17:1,15 abundant 50:37; Isaiah 45:3; Habakkuk 2:5-10; Revelation 18:11-17 thine 17:11; 50:27,31; Genesis 6:13; Lamentations 4:18; Ezekiel 7:2-12; Daniel 5:26; Amos 8:2; 1 Peter 4:7 and the Habakkuk 2:9-11; Luke 12:19-21; 2 Peter 2:3,14,15; Jude 1:11-13; Revelation 18:19

Verse 14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.

sworn 49:13; Amos 6:8; Hebrews 6:13 himself Heb. his soul. as with. 46:23; Judges 6:5; Joel 1:4-7; 2:3,4,25; Nahum 3:15-17

lift up Heb. utter. 50:15

Verse 15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

hath made 10:12-16; 32:17; Genesis 1:1-6; Psalms 107:25; 146:5,6; 148:1-5; Isaiah 40:26; Acts 14:15; 17:24; Romans 1:20; Colossians 1:16,17; Hebrews 1:2,3; Revelation 4:11 by his wisdom Psalms 104:24; 136:5; Proverbs 3:19; Romans 11:33 and hath Job 9:8; Psalms 104:2; Isaiah 40:22; 42:5; 44:24; 45:12; 48:13; 51:13

Verse 16 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

he uttereth 10:12,13; Job 37:2-11; 40:9; Psalms 18:13; 29:3-10; 46:6; 68:33; 104:7; Ezekiel 10:5 there is Job 36:26-33; 37:13; 38:34-38; Psalms 135:7; Amos 9:7 multitude or, noise. and he causeth. Psalms 135:7 bringeth Genesis 8:1; Exodus 10:13,19; 14:21; Job 38:22; Psalms 78:26; 135:7; 147:18; Jonah 1:4; 4:8; Matthew 8:26,27

Verse 17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Every

10:14; Psalms 14:2; 53:1,2; 92:5,6; 115:5,8; 135:18; Isaiah 44:18-20; Romans 1:20-23; 1 Corinthians 1:19-21 brutish by his knowledge or, more brutish than to know. for his. 10:14; 50:2; Psalms 135:17; Habakkuk 2:18,19

Verse 18 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

vanity 10:8,15; Jonah 2:8; Acts 14:15 in the 43:12,13; 46:25; 48:7; 50:2; Exodus 12:12; Isaiah 19:1; 46:1; Zephaniah 2:11

Verse 19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.

portion 10:16; Psalms 16:5; 73:26; 115:3; Lamentations 3:24 the former the rod 12:7-10; 50:11; Exodus 19:5,6; Deuteronomy 32:9; Psalms 33:12; 74:2; 135:4; 1 Peter 2:9 the Lord 10:16; Isaiah 47:4

Verse 20 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

art 50:23; Isaiah 10:5,15; 13:5; 14:5,6; 37:26; 41:15,16; Micah 4:13; Zechariah 9:13,14; Matthew 22:7 with thee or, in thee, or, by thee. break. 25:9,11; 27:5-7

Verse 21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;

50:37; Exodus 15:1,21; Psalms 46:9; 76:6; Ezekiel 39:20; Micah 5:10; Nahum 2:13; Haggai 2:22; Zechariah 10:5; 12:4; Revelation 19:18

Verse 22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;

6:11; Deuteronomy 32:25; 1 Samuel 15:3; 2 Chronicles 36:17; Isaiah 20:4; Lamentations 2:11; Ezekiel 9:6

Verse 24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.

11,35,49; 50:15,17,18,28,29,33,34; Psalms 137:8,9; Isaiah 47:6-9; Isaiah 51:22,23; 61:2; 63:1-4; 66:6; 1 Thessalonians 2:15,16; Revelation 6:10; 18:20,24; Revelation 19:2-4

Verse 25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

I am 50:31 O destroying 53,58; Genesis 11:4; Isaiah 13:2; Daniel 4:30; Zechariah 4:7 which destroyest 7,20-23; 25:9,18-27; Revelation 8:8; 17:1-6 and will 2 Peter 3:10; Revelation 8:8; 18:9,10

Verse 26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations;

but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD. shall not 37,43; 50:12,13; Isaiah 13:19-22; 14:23 desolate for ever Heb. everlasting desolations. 50:40,41; Isaiah 34:8-17; Revelation 18:20-24

Verse 27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.

ye up 12; 6:1; 50:2,41; Isaiah 13:2-5; 18:3; Amos 3:6; Zechariah 14:2 prepare 25:14 Ararat Bochart reasonably concludes Ararat and Minni to be the greater and lesser Armenia; and Ashchenaz he thinks formed part of Phrygia near the Hellespont, part of that country being called Ascania by Homer. Cyrus had conquered Armenia, defeated Croesus king of Lydia, (B.C. 548,) and subdued several nations from the Egean sea to the Euphrates, before he marched against Babylon; and Xenophon also informs us that there were not only Armenians, but both Phrygians and Cappadocians in the army of Cyrus. Genesis 8:4 Ashchenaz Genesis 10:3 Ashkenaz 1 Chronicles 1:6 cause 14; 46:23; 50:41,42; Judges 6:5; Joel 2:2,3; Nahum 3:15-17; Revelation 9:7-11; After Cyrus had been the instrument in the hands of God of taking Babylon, he marched against Tomyris, queen of the Massagetæ, a Scythian nation, and was totally defeated, (B.C. 530.) The victorious queen, who had lost her son in a previous battle, was so incensed against

Cyrus, that she cut off his head, and threw it into a vessel filled with human blood, exclaiming, "Sattia te sanguine, quem sitisti."

Verse 28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.

the kings 11; 25:25; Genesis 10:2; 1 Chronicles 1:5 Madia Esther 1:3; 10:2; Isaiah 13:17; 21:2; Daniel 5:28-30; 6:8; 8:3,4,20; 9:1

Verse 29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

the land 8:16; 10:10; 50:36,43; Isaiah 13:13,14; 14:16; Joel 2:10; Amos 8:8 every 11,12,43,62-64; 50:13,39,40,45; Isaiah 13:19,20; 14:23,24; 46:10,11; Isaiah 47:1-15; Revelation 18:2,21-24

Verse 30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

The mighty Accordingly, the Babylonians, after the loss of a battle or two, never recovered their courage to the face the enemy in the field, they retired within their walls; and the first time that Cyrus came with his army before the place he could not provoke them to venture forth, though he challenged the king to fight a duel with him; and the last time he came he consulted with his officers respecting the best mode of carrying on the siege "since," said he, "they do not come out to fight." 32,57; 48:41; 50:36,37; Psalms 76:5; Isaiah 13:7,8; 19:16; Nahum 3:13; Revelation 18:10 her bars

50:36; *marg:; Psalms 107:16; 147:13; Isaiah 45:1,2; Lamentations 2:9; Amos 1:5; Nahum 3:13

Verse 31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,

post 4:20; 50:24; 1 Samuel 4:12-18; 2 Samuel 18:19-31; 2 Chronicles 30:6; Esther 3:13-15; Esther 8:10,14; Job 9:25 to shew 50:43; Isaiah 21:3-9; 47:11-13; Daniel 5:2-5,30

Verse 32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

the passages 50:38; Isaiah 44:27 the men 30; 50:37

Verse 33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

is like Isaiah 21:10; 41:15,16; Amos 1:3; Micah 4:13; Habakkuk 3:12 it is time to thresh her or, in the time that he thresheth her. the time. Isaiah 17:5-11; 18:5; Hosea 6:11; Joel 3:13; Matthew 13:30,39; Revelation 14:15-20

Verse 34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

the king

49; 39:1-8; 50:7,17; Lamentations 1:1,14,15 he hath made 48:11,12; Isaiah 24:1-3; 34:11; Nahum 2:2,9,10 swallowed 44; Job 20:15; Proverbs 1:12; Lamentations 2:16; Ezekiel 36:3; Amos 8:4; Matthew 23:14

Verse 35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

The violence Heb. My violence. 50:29; Judges 9:20,24,56,57; Psalms 9:12; 12:5; 137:8,9; Isaiah 26:20,21; Zechariah 1:15; Matthew 7:2; James 2:13; Revelation 6:10; 16:6; 18:6,20 flesh or, remainder. inhabitant. Heb. inhabitress.

Verse 36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

I will plead See on ch. 50:33,34; Psalms 140:12; Proverbs 22:23; 23:11; Isaiah 43:14; 47:6-9; 49:25,26; Micah 7:8-10; Habakkuk 2:8-17 take Deuteronomy 32:35,43; Psalms 94:1-3; Romans 12:19; Hebrews 10:30,31; Revelation 19:1-3 and I will 50:38; Psalms 107:33; Isaiah 44:27; Revelation 16:12

Verse 37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

become 25,26,29; 25:9,12,18; 50:12,13,23-26,38-40; Isaiah 13:19-22; 14:23; Isaiah 34:8-17; Revelation 18:2,21-23

an hissing 18:16; 19:8; 29:18; 2 Chronicles 29:8; Lamentations 2:15,16; Micah 6:16; Zephaniah 2:15

Verse 38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.

roar 2:15; Job 4:10,11; Psalms 34:10; 58:6; Isaiah 35:9; Nahum 2:11-13; Zechariah 11:3 yell or, shake themselves. Judges 16:20

Verse 39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

their heat 25:27; Isaiah 21:4,5; 22:12-14; Daniel 5:1-4,30; Nahum 1:10; 3:11 and sleep 57; Psalms 13:3; 76:5,6

Verse 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

50:27; Psalms 37:20; 44:22; Isaiah 34:6; Ezekiel 39:18

Verse 41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

Sheshach Sheshach was probably an idol worshipped at Babylon, from which the city derived this name; and the festival which was held when the city was taken, when they were heated with wine, was perhaps observed in honour of it. 25:26; Daniel 5:1-3 the praise 49:25; 50:23; Isaiah 13:19; 14:4; Daniel 2:38; 4:22,30; 5:4,5; Revelation

18:10-19 an astonishment 37; 50:46; Deuteronomy 28:37; 2 Chronicles 7:21; Ezekiel 27:35

Verse 42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

Psalms 18:4,16; 42:7; 65:7; 93:3; Isaiah 8:7,8; Ezekiel 27:26-34; Daniel 9:26; Luke 21:25; Revelation 17:15,16

Verse 43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

cities 29,37; 50:39,40 a land 2:6; Isaiah 13:20; Ezekiel 29:10,11

Verse 44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

I will punish 18,47; 50:2; Isaiah 46:1,2 I will bring 34; 2 Chronicles 36:7; Ezra 1:7; Daniel 1:2; 5:2-4,26 the nations Isaiah 2:2; 60:5; Daniel 3:2,3,29; 4:1,22; 5:19,31; Revelation 18:9-19 the wall 53,58

Verse 45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.

go 6,9,50; 50:8; Isaiah 48:20; Zechariah 2:7; Revelation 14:8-11; 18:4

deliver Genesis 19:12-16; Numbers 16:26; Acts 2:40; 2 Corinthians 6:17

Verse 46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

lest or, let not. 2 Kings 19:7; Matthew 24:6-8; Mark 13:7,8; Luke 21:9-19,28 a rumour shall Isaiah 13:3-5; 21:2,3 ruler against Judges 7:22; 1 Samuel 14:16-20; 2 Chronicles 20:23; Isaiah 19:2

Verse 47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

I will 52; 50:2; Isaiah 21:9; 46:1,2 do judgment upon Heb. visit upon. 18; 11:22; 13:21; 23:34; 25:12; *margins her whole 24,43; 50:12-16,35-40

Verse 48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.

the heaven 10; Psalms 58:10,11; Proverbs 11:10; Isaiah 44:23; 48:20; 49:13; Revelation 15:1-4; Revelation 16:4-7; 18:20; 19:1-7 the spoilers 11; 50:3,9,41

Verse 49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.

As Babylon, etc or, Both Babylon is to fall, O ye slain of Israel and with Babylon shall fall the slain of all the country. hath. 10,11,24,35; 50:11,17,18,29,33,34; Judges 1:7; Psalms 137:8,9; Matthew 7:2; James 2:13; Revelation 18:5,6

Verse 50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

escaped 6,45; 31:21; 44:28; 50:8; Isaiah 48:20; 51:11; 52:2,11,12; Zechariah 2:7-9; Revelation 18:4 remember 29:12-14; Deuteronomy 4:29-31; 30:1-4; Ezra 1:3-5; Nehemiah 1:2-4; 2:3-5; Psalms 102:13,14; 137:5,6; Daniel 9:2,3,16-19 Jerusalem Psalms 122:6

Verse 51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.

are confounded 3:22-25; 31:19; Psalms 74:18-21; 79:4,12; 123:3,4; 137:1-3; Lamentations 2:15-17; Lamentations 5:1; Ezekiel 36:30 shame 3:25; 14:3; Psalms 44:13-16; 69:7-13; 71:13; 109:29; Ezekiel 7:18; Micah 7:10 for strangers 52:13; Psalms 74:3-7; 79:1; Lamentations 1:10; 2:20; Ezekiel 7:21,22; 9:7; 24:21; Daniel 8:11-14; 9:26,27; 11:31; Revelation 11:1,2

Verse 52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon

her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan. that I 47; 50:38 her graven images This was verified when Xerxes destroyed all the temples of Babylon, B.C. 479. the wounded Isaiah 13:15,16; Ezekiel 30:24; Daniel 5:30,31

Verse 53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.

mount 25,58; 49:16; Genesis 11:4; Psalms 139:8-10; Isaiah 14:12-15; 47:5,7; Ezekiel 31:9-11; Daniel 4:30; Amos 9:4; Obadiah 1:3,4 from 1-4,11,48; 50:9,10,21,25,31-34,45; Isaiah 10:6,7; 13:2-5,17; Isaiah 41:25; 45:1-5

Verse 54 A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:

48:3-5; 50:22,27,43,46; Isaiah 13:6-9; 15:5; Zephaniah 1:10; Revelation 18:17-19

Verse 55 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:

destroyed 38,39; 25:10; 50:10-15; Isaiah 15:1; 24:8-11; 47:5; Revelation 18:22,23 her waves Psalms 65:7; 93:3,4; Isaiah 17:13; Ezekiel 26:3; Luke 21:25; Revelation 17:15

Verse 56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty

men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.

the spoiler 48; 50:10; Isaiah 21:2; Habakkuk 2:8; Revelation 17:16 her mighty 30; 50:36 every 49:35; Genesis 49:24; 1 Samuel 2:4; Psalms 37:15; 46:9; 76:3; Ezekiel 39:3,9 the Lord 6,24; 50:28,29; Deuteronomy 32:35; Psalms 94:1,2; 137:8; Isaiah 34:8; 35:4; 59:18; 2 Thessalonians 1:6; Revelation 18:5,6,20; 19:2

Verse 57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

I will 39; 25:27; Isaiah 21:4,5; Daniel 5:1-4,30,31; Nahum 1:10; Habakkuk 2:15-17; Revelation 18:6,7,9 sleep a Psalms 76:5,6; Isaiah 37:36 the king 46:18; 48:15; Malachi 1:14

Verse 58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

The broad walls of Babylon or, The walls of broad Babylon. According to the testimony of Herodotus, the circumference of the walls of Babylon was 480 stadia, or 60 miles, their breadth 50 cubits, and their height 200 cubits; but when Darius became master of the place, B.C. 516, he took away all their 100 gates of brass, and beat down their walls to 50 cubits; and now not a vestige of these immense fortifications remains, to mark the site of this once mighty

city! 44; 50:15 broken or, made naked. high gates. 30; Isaiah 45:1,2 the people 9,64; Psalms 127:1; Isaiah 65:23; Habakkuk 2:13

Verse 59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.

Neriah 32:12; 36:4; 45:1 with or, on the behalf of. quiet prince. or, prince of Menucha, or chief chamberlain.

Verse 60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.

30:2,3; 36:2-4,32; Isaiah 8:1-4; 30:8; Daniel 12:4; Habakkuk 2:2,3; Revelation 1:11,19

Verse 61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;

and shalt see Matthew 24:1; Mark 13:1 read 29:1,2; Colossians 4:16; 1 Thessalonians 4:18; 5:27; Revelation 1:3

Verse 62 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

to cut 25,26,29,37; 50:3,13,39,40; Isaiah 13:19-22; 14:22,23; Revelation 18:20-23 desolation Heb. desolations. 25:9,12; Ezekiel 35:9

Verse 63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:

thou shalt bind This was the emblem of its overthrow and irretrievable ruin; and the same emblem is employed in Re 18:21, to denote the utter ruin of mystical Babylon. 19:10,11; Revelation 18:21

Verse 64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Thus shall 42; 25:27; Nahum 1:8,9; Revelation 14:8; 18:2,21 they shall 58; Habakkuk 2:13; Psalms 76:12 Thus far Job 31:40; Psalms 72:20

52 Chapter 52

Introduction

1 Zedekiah rebels.

4 Jerusalem is besieged and taken.

8 Zedekiah's sons killed, and his own eyes put out.

12 Nebuzar-adan burns and spoils the city.

24 He carries away the captives.

28 The number of Jews carried captive.

31 Evil-merodach advances Jehoiachin.

Verse 1 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

A. M. 3406-3416. B.C. 598-588. one 2 Kings 24:18; 2 Chronicles 36:11 begin to reign Heb. reigned. Libnah. Joshua 10:29; 15:42

Verse 2 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

he did 1 Kings 14:22; 2 Kings 24:19,20; 2 Chronicles 36:12,13; Ezekiel 17:16-20; 21:25 according 26:21-23; 36:21-23,29-31

Verse 3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

through 2 Samuel 24:1; 1 Kings 10:9; Proverbs 28:2; Ecclesiastes 10:16; Isaiah 3:4,5; 19:4 Zedekiah 2 Chronicles 36:13; Ezekiel 17:15-21

Verse 4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the

tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.

A. M. 3414. B.C. 590. the ninth year 39:1; 2 Kings 25:1-27; Ezekiel 24:1,2 in the tenth month Zechariah 8:19 pitched 7; 6:3-6; 32:24; Leviticus 26:25; Deuteronomy 28:52-57; Isaiah 29:3; 42:24,25; Ezekiel 4:1-7; 21:22; Luke 19:43; 21:20

Verse 6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

A. M. 3416. B.C. 588. the fourth 39:2; 2 Kings 25:3; Zechariah 8:19 the famine 15:2; 19:9; 21:9; 25:10; 38:9; Leviticus 26:26; Deuteronomy 28:52,53; 32:24; Isaiah 3:1; Lamentations 4:4-6; 5:10; Ezekiel 4:9-17; 5:10-12; 7:15; 14:21

Verse 7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.

the city 34:2,3; 2 Kings 25:4 all the men 39:4-7; 49:26; 51:32; Leviticus 26:17,36; Deuteronomy 28:25; 32:30; Joshua 7:8-12

Verse 8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

21:7; 32:4; 34:21; 37:18; 38:23; 39:5; Isaiah 30:16,17; Lamentations

4:19,20; Ezekiel 12:12-14; 17:20,21; Amos 2:14,15; 9:1-4

Verse 9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.

they took 32:4,5; 2 Chronicles 33:11; Ezekiel 21:25-27 Riblah 39:5; 2 Kings 23:33; 25:6 Hamath Numbers 13:21; Joshua 13:5; 1 Kings 8:65; 2 Chronicles 8:3

Verse 10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

slew 22:30; 39:6,7; Genesis 21:16; 44:34; Deuteronomy 28:34; 2 Kings 25:7 he slew 24-27; 2 Kings 25:18-21; Ezekiel 9:6; 11:7-11

Verse 11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

put out the eyes of Zedekiah Heb. blinded Zedekiah. 34:3-5; Ezekiel 12:13 chains or, fetters. prison. Heb. house of the wards.

Verse 12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,

fifth 2 Kings 25:8; Zechariah 7:3-5; 8:19 the tenth

It appears from the parallel passage of Kings, that Nebuzar-adan came from Riblah to Jerusalem on the seventh of the fifth month; but it seems that he did not set fire to the temple and city till the tenth day, being probably occupied on the intervening days in taking the vessels out of the house of the Lord, and collecting together all the riches that could be found. In memory of this calamity, the Jews devote two fasts to this day; the seventeenth of the fourth month, which falls in June, for the destruction of Jerusalem, and the ninth of the fifth month, which falls in July, for the destruction of the temple; both of which are mentioned by Zechariah as kept from this event till his time, a period of seventy years, under the names of the fast of the fourth month, and fast of the fifth month. the nineteenth 29; 2 Kings 24:12; 25:8 captain of the guard or, chief marshal. Heb. chief of the executioners, or slaughtermen, and so. 14; 39:9; Genesis 37:36; *margins served Heb. stood before.

Verse 13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:

burned 7:14; 2 Kings 25:9; 2 Chronicles 36:19; Psalms 74:6-8; 79:1; Isaiah 64:10,11; Lamentations 2:7; Ezekiel 7:20-22; 24:21; Micah 3:12; Zechariah 11:1; Matthew 24:2; Acts 6:13,14 the king's 22:14; 34:22; 37:8-10; 38:23; 39:8,9; Ezekiel 24:1-14; Amos 2:5; 3:10,11; Amos 6:11

Verse 14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.

brake 2 Kings 25:10; Nehemiah 1:3

Verse 15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

carried 15:1,2; Zechariah 14:2

Verse 16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.

certain 39:9,10; 40:5-7; 2 Kings 25:12; Ezekiel 33:24

Verse 17 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

pillars 21-23; 27:19-22; 1 Kings 7:15-22,27,50; 2 Kings 25:13-17; 2 Chronicles 4:12,13; 2 Chronicles 36:18; Lamentations 1:10; Daniel 1:2 the bases 1 Kings 7:23-26; 2 Chronicles 4:14,15

Verse 18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

caldrons Exodus 27:3; 38:3; 2 Kings 25:14-16; Ezekiel 46:20-24 the shovels or, instruments to remove the ashes. Numbers 4:14; 1 Kings 7:40,45; 2 Chronicles 4:11,16 the snuffers Exodus 37:23; 2 Chronicles 4:22 bowls or, basons Exodus 25:29; 37:16; Numbers 4:7,14; 1 Kings 7:50; 1 Chronicles 28:17; 2

Chronicles 4:8; Ezra 1:10 the spoons Numbers 7:13,14,19,20,26,32,38,44,50,56,

Verse 19 And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain of the guard away.

fire pans or, censers. Leviticus 26:12; Numbers 16:46; Revelation 8:3-5 and the candlesticks Exodus 25:31-39; 1 Kings 7:49; 2 Chronicles 4:6-22

Verse 20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

two the brass Heb. their brass. without. 1 Kings 7:47; 2 Kings 25:16; 1 Chronicles 22:14; 2 Chronicles 4:18

Verse 21 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.

concerning 1 Kings 7:15-21; 2 Kings 25:17; 2 Chronicles 3:15-17 fillet Heb. thread.

Verse 22 And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these.

with network Exodus 28:14-22,25; 39:15-18; 1 Kings 7:17; 2 Chronicles 3:15; 4:12,13

Verse 23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.

all the 1 Kings 7:20

Verse 24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:

the captain 12,15; 2 Kings 25:18 Seraiah 1 Chronicles 6:14; Ezra 7:1 Zephaniah 21:1; 29:25,29; 37:3; 2 Kings 25:18 door Heb. threshold. 35:4; 1 Chronicles 9:19-26; Psalms 84:10; *marg:

Verse 25 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.

an eunuch 2 Kings 25:19 were near the king's person Heb. saw the face of the king. Esther 1:14; Matthew 18:10 principal scribe of the host or, scribe of the captain of the host.

Verse 27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.

the king 6:13-15; 2 Kings 25:20,21; Ezekiel 8:11-18; 11:1-11 Riblah 9; Numbers 34:8-11; 2 Samuel 8:9 Thus 24:9,10; 25:9-11; 39:10; Leviticus 26:33-35; Deuteronomy 4:26; 28:36,64; 2 Kings 17:20,23; 23:27; 25:21; Isaiah 6:11,12; 24:3; 27:10; 32:13,14; Ezekiel 33:28; Micah 4:10

Verse 28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:

A. M. 3404. B.C. 600. in the 2 Kings 24:2,3,12-16; Daniel 1:1-3

Verse 29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:

A. M. 3415. B.C. 589. the eighteenth 12; 39:9; 2 Kings 25:11; 2 Chronicles 36:20 persons Heb. souls. Genesis 12:5; Exodus 1:5

Verse 30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

carried 15; 6:9

Verse 31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin

king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison,

A. M. 3442. B.C. 562. it came 2 Kings 25:27-30 in the twelfth Nearly answering to our 25th of April, A.M. 3442. king of Babylon Proverbs 21:1 lifted up This phrase is founded on the observation that those in sorrow hold down their heads; and, when comforted, or the cause of their sorrow removed, they lift up their heads. Genesis 40:13,20; Job 22:29; Psalms 3:3; 27:6

Verse 32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,

kindly unto him Heb. good things with him. Proverbs 12:25 set Gave him a more respectable seat than any of the captive princes. 27:6-11; Daniel 2:37; 5:18,19

Verse 33 And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.

changed Presented him with a caftan, or robe, as a mark of favour, as is still the practice in the East. Genesis 41:14,42; Psalms 30:11; Isaiah 61:1-3; Zechariah 3:4 he did 2 Samuel 9:7,13; 1 Kings 2:7

Verse 34

And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

there was 2 Samuel 9:10; Matthew 6:11 every day a portion Heb. the matter of the day in his day. Luke 11:3