Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances

Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Jeremiah 38:19

I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen away to the Chaldeans See on Jeremiah 38:4. These Jews, he fears, if the Chaldaeans delivered him into their hands, would maltreat him for not doing himself as they had done at an earlier period, and so sparing the city the miseries of a siege. Cp. Jeremiah 37:13.

Continues after advertising

See also Jeremiah 38:19 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 38:19. _THEY MOCK ME._] Insult me, and exhibit me in triumph....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE JEWS THAT ARE FALLEN TO THE CHALDAEANS - These deserters probably formed a numerous party, and now would be the more indignant with Zedekiah for having rejected their original advice to submit....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 38 _ 1. Jeremiah in the dungeon and his rescue (Jeremiah 38:1) _ 2. Jeremiah with Zedekiah: His last appeal (Jeremiah 38:14) Jeremiah 38:1. Jeremiah is next accused of high treason. Th

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Zedekiah asks Jeremiah about the future, swearing immunity to him, whatever his answer (Jeremiah 38:16). Jeremiah urges him to save himself and the city by surrender to Nebuchadrezzar's princes (Nebuc...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AFRAID. apprehensive....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    E. Interviewed by the King Jeremiah 38:14-26 TRANSLATION (14) Zedekiah the king sent and had Jeremiah the prophet brought unto him at the third entrance of the house of the LORD. And the king said un...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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 AM AFRAID OF THE JEWS THAT ARE FALLEN T...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    AND THEY MOCK ME] for not surrendering sooner as they had done....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-3. The removal of Jeremiah from the prison was favourable to the publication of his message. Hence the alarm of the princes....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I AM AFRAID OF THE JEWS... — The special form of fear was characteristic of the weak and vacillating king. It was not enough to know that his life would be safe. Would he also be saved from the insult...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֛אמֶר הַ מֶּ֥לֶךְ צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּ אֶֽל ־י

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Under these circumstances he continued to foretell the victory of the Chaldeans, with the result that the anger of the princes was stirred up against him, and he was cast into a most loathsome dungeon...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that have fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they (i) mock me. (i) Which declares that he more feared t...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Jews. Traitors, whom Sedecias had perhaps treated ill. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This must have been a very interesting interview between the king and the Prophet; and it is impossible but to take concern in it, and to wish that Zedekiah had listened to the Prophet's advice. And a...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _A ROYAL PUPPET_ ‘And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, ‘I am afraid.’ Jeremiah 38:19 I. IT IS STRANGE TO THINK OF THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THIS REED SHAKEN WITH THE WIND, AND THE STALWART OAK, DEF...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Zedekiah seems, here to have had a good reason why he should not immediately obey the Prophet. And often the best of the faithful openly set forth their anxieties, and we have seen that even the Proph...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 37 AND 38. Chapter 37 gives us Zedekiah in the same state of disobedience. A show of religion is kept up, and, having a moment of respite which excites some h...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND ZEDEKIAH THE KING SAID UNTO JEREMIAH,.... In answer to this advice he gave him, persuading him to give up himself and the city into the hands of the Chaldeans: I AM AFRAID OF THE JEWS THAT ARE FA...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 19. _Then Zedekiah said unto Jeremiah,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Zedekiah said, I am afraid of the Jews_, &c. The sense seems to be, that he was afraid lest the Chaldeans, when he had given himself up to them, should deliver him into the hands of those Jews who ha...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Zedekiah, the king, whose weakness of character appears here once more, SAID UNTO JEREMIAH, I AM AFRAID OF THE JEWS THAT ARE FALLEN TO THE CHALDEANS, he dreaded the insults of his fugitive subject...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Jeremiah's Advice to the King...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-28 Jeremiah was not forward to repeat the warnings, which seemed only to endanger his own life, and to add to the king's guilt, but asked whether he feared to do the will of God. The less men fear...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    But if Zedekiah went out according to the prophet's advice, and delivered himself, what needed he to fear his subjects (that had deserted the city) delivering of him? It seems rather therefore to be t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 38:19 Zedekiah H6667 king H4428 said H559 (H8799) Jeremiah H3414 afraid H1672 (H8802) Jews H3064 defect

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH'S EXPERIENCES IN THE COURT OF THE GUARD (JEREMIAH 38:1). But even the fact that Jeremiah was in the court of the guard did not prevent him from further maltreatment by those who saw him as a...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ZEDEKIAH ONCE AGAIN CONSULTS JEREMIAH AND KEEPS HIM SAFELY IN THE COURT OF THE GUARD UNTIL JERUSALEM IS TAKEN (JEREMIAH 38:14). This was to be Zedekiah's last consultation with Jeremiah. During it he...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 38 Ropes and rags. I. Help always comes from above. Jeremiah found it so. It was useless to try to climb out of the dungeon, it was only to fall deeper into the mire. "Salvation is of the L...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jeremiah's imprisonment, continued. His private conference with the king. CHARACTERS: Shephatiah, Gedaliah, Jucal, Pashur, Jeremiah, Zedekiah, Malchiah, Ebed-melech, Jonathan. CONCLUSION: G...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 38:7. _Ebed-melech the Ethiopian,_ the king's chamberlain. It seems to have been a new name given him on his promotion to office; but God gave him long life for preserving the life of Jeremia...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I am afraid of the Jews._ FATAL TIMIDITY I remember very well, when I first went out to Australia, that one fine evening a little bird was seen to be following the ship, evidently a land-bird driven...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 38:19 ZEDEKIAH feared displeasing people in Jerusalem (vv. Jeremiah 38:4) and feared being turned over to...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—CHRONOLOGICAL NOTES as on preceding chapter. Personal Allusions. Jeremiah 38:1. “_Shephatiah_,” never elsewhere mentioned. “_Gedaliah_,” possibly son of “Pashur” the vio...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    CONTINUATION. EXPOSITION The object of the princes being frustrated (for in the "court of the guard" Jeremiah had perfect freedom and opportunity of speech), the princes resolve upon a more effectua...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now we come to the third part of the book of Jeremiah and this covers the period of Zedekiah the king. These particular prophecies, thirty-seven through thirty-nine, cover from the time that Zedekiah...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 15:24; 1 Samuel 31:4; Isaiah 45:10; Isaiah 45:9; Isaiah 51:12

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Lest they — Lest the Chaldeans should deliver me into the hands of those Jews which have fallen to them....

Continues after advertising