JEREMIAH 27-29. Certain linguistic peculiarities (_e.g._ the incorrect
spelling, Nebuchadnezzar) suggest that these three Chapter s may have
circulated as a separate pamphlet, _e.g._ in Babylon. They deal with
the rebuke of false hopes concerning a speedy return from exile.
JEREMIAH 30-31. THE FUTU... [ Continue Reading ]
MURDER OF GEDALIAH BY ISHMAEL. Three months (Jeremiah 39:2) after the
capture of Jerusalem, Ishmael, who was of royal blood (and so perhaps
jealous of the governor's position), together with ten followers, took
advantage of Gedaliah's hospitality to murder him, and those with him
(in his house, or a... [ Continue Reading ]
ISHMAEL'S DEEDS AND FLIGHT. Eighty pilgrims from N. Israel to
Jerusalem, mourning its fall, and carrying offerings (Jeremiah 17:26),
were met by Ishmael and enticed into Mizpah. There he killed them all
except ten who acknowledged that they had stores of grain, etc.
Ishmael threw all the dead bodies... [ Continue Reading ]