JEREMIAH CHAPTER 42 Johanan and the people desire Jeremiah to inquire of God, promising obedience to his will, JEREMIAH 42:1. Jeremiah assureth them of safety in Judea, JEREMIAH 42:7, and destruction in Egypt, JEREMIAH 42:13, reproveth their hypocrisy and obstinacy, JEREMIAH 42:19. The three followi... [ Continue Reading ]
These men (though wretched hypocrites) yet come to the prophet with great respect and reverence, first desiring that he would allow them to make their request to him: probably the evidence they had had so lately of his being a prophet of the Lord, by the fulfilling of all that he had foretold agains... [ Continue Reading ]
The thing they would have him pray to God for, was direction what they should do in this desolate state into which God had brought them. What could be more pious? a practice founded upon a Divine precept, and encouraged by a promise, PROVERBS 3:6, _Acknowledge him in all thy ways, and he shall direc... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE HEARD YOU; that is, I will do for you according as you desire. And I will be faithful in giving you an account of what God shall reveal to me to be his will on your behalf. They called God Jeremiah's God, here Jeremiah calls him _their God_, both to mind them of God's relation to them, and th... [ Continue Reading ]
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The preceding words are a perfect oath, the form of which lies in a calling of God to witness the sincerity of the heart of those that swear, for a security to those to whom the oath is given, which also includeth a secret challenging God to take vengeance upon the persons that give that security, i... [ Continue Reading ]
The word mentioned JEREMIAH 40:1; to which all that we have met with from the beginning of JER 40 is but an historical preface.... [ Continue Reading ]
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The prophet after ten days, all which time some (but upon what ground I know not) think he spent in prayer, receiveth an answer from God, which he presently communicates to the princes and people, with a preface that containeth in it many arguments to have induced this compliance with it: 1. Becaus... [ Continue Reading ]
That is, if you will not go into the land of Egypt, as you are thinking, but abide where you are, or in any part of Judah, under subjection to the king of Babylon, into whose power I have given you, then I will see to your security and prosperity, and make you a happy people. The happiness and prosp... [ Continue Reading ]
I know whom you are afraid of; you fear that the king of Babylon will come and utterly root you out, because one of your nation hath murdered his viceroy Gedaliah: suffer not your passion of fear to rise too high in this case, and to make you flee into Egypt; for you shall have my presence with you,... [ Continue Reading ]
We are beholden to God for all the pity and compassion which we meet with from men, God inclineth their hearts, though we receive the kindness from their hands. The mercy which God here promiseth these men is, that the king of Babylon should give them a liberty to go every one of them to their own i... [ Continue Reading ]
OLBHeb; Our translation a little darkens the sense, translating the Hebrew particle yxlb NEITHER, which signifies no more than _not_, or by _no means_, NUMBERS 14:16 1 SAMUEL 2:2, 1 SAMUEL 20:26 HOSEA 13:4; and it is certain here is but one thing spoken of, for the thing wherein they disobeyed the... [ Continue Reading ]
The sense of the words is obvious, they thought that their life in the land of Judah would be at best an uneasy life, where they should be continually alarmed with the noise of war; and though they could not fear the want of bread in a land that flowed with milk and honey, yet they also considered t... [ Continue Reading ]
This verse is wholly prefatory. to what followeth. If, saith God, all your mind be upon Egypt, and you he resolved thither you will go,... [ Continue Reading ]
In the general the prophet threateneth them, that in Egypt they should meet with the very same evils the fear of which made them flee out of their own country, the sword and famine; the sword of Nebuchadnezzar, who, after this, fully conquered Egypt; and a famine through want of bread; for although... [ Continue Reading ]
Those words, THAT SET THEIR FACES TO GO, may reasonably be interpreted as a limitation of the universal particle _all_; for as eventually we can hardly conceive that every individual person that went into Egypt did thus perish, so it can hardly be thought that the just God should order an equal puni... [ Continue Reading ]
If you would see your doom in a glass, look upon Jerusalem, which according to my word I have dealt so severely with, that amongst men it would be called fury, though in me it was but deliberate justice, that my wrath declared against it (like liquid things melted) diffused itself into all the parts... [ Continue Reading ]
The good prophet, knowing how much it concerned this people to listen unto him, and to believe and obey what he said, repeats again the same thing which he had said before, assuring them that it was the Lord commanded him to say this to them. Critics note that the word which we translate _admonish_,... [ Continue Reading ]
YE DISSEMBLED IN YOUR HEARTS; or, you have used deceit, either towards God, dealing falsely with him, calling him to be a witness to your sincerity in what you never intended any sincerity in; or towards me, sending me to inquire of God for you, and promising to do according to what I should reveal... [ Continue Reading ]
I have been faithful to you, I went according to your desire to inquire of God for you, I had his will revealed to me in your case, and now I have as faithfully told you what it is; BUT YE HAVE NOT OBEYED. How did Jeremiah know this, for they had not yet declared their minds to him? He had either le... [ Continue Reading ]
The prophet ascertaineth that doom unto them which, JEREMIAH 42:15, he had threatened them with, in case they were resolved to go into Egypt. We must expect nothing but utmost disappointments upon actions done in disobedience to the revealed will of God: you think to avoid death by going thither for... [ Continue Reading ]