Jeremiah 42:1 to Jeremiah 43:7. Migration of the people to Egypt in spite of Jeremiah's protest The narrative here is generally admitted to be a trustworthy extract from Baruch's memoirs. Du., however, excepts from this judgement Jeremiah's reply (Jeremiah 42:7), as providing, according to him, an... [ Continue Reading ]
_Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah_ See mg. We should probably (with LXX) read _Azariah_here as well. The name Jezaniah may be due to a copyist who thought that the names of captains here must correspond as closely as might be with the list in ch. 40 (see on Jeremiah 42:8 there). _from the least even un... [ Continue Reading ]
_be accepted_ For mg. See on Jeremiah 36:7. _then spake Azariah_ See on ch. Jeremiah 42:1. _all the proud men, saying_ The word in MT. (_"ômĕrim_) corresponding to "saying" here does not represent the ordinary Hebrew idiom. We should therefore, by a slight change in the original, read _the proud a... [ Continue Reading ]
_that the Lord thy God may shew us_ They make up their minds to flee into Egypt, and only after they have done this, proceed to enquire God's will. Hence we cannot acquit them of hypocrisy. Cp. Ahab in 1 Kings 22:3 ff.... [ Continue Reading ]
_amongst_ better, as mg. _against_, i.e. to bear witness and punish us if we fail to do our part as we now promise. _from all the nations_ These words, as implying a much wider dispersion of inhabitants of the Southern kingdom than had actually taken place, may be a scribe's insertion from ch. Jere... [ Continue Reading ]
_after ten days_ Pe. points out the importance of the _v_., as giving us an insight into the nature of prophecy. Jeremiah distinguishes clearly between his own opinion, which was already a decisive one, and the Divine revelation that might be made to him, and he waits till the latter comes. _Tahpan... [ Continue Reading ]
See introd. summary to the section.... [ Continue Reading ]
Du. (see introd. note to section) considers Jeremiah 42:15 as wholly an addition, and Jeremiah 42:9 as containing much editorial matter.... [ Continue Reading ]
_then will I build you, etc_.] Cp. Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 24:6 for these figures. _I repent me_ an anthropomorphic figure. I change my _conduct_towards you, which with _men_is commonly caused by change of _purpose_.... [ Continue Reading ]
_of whom ye are afraid_ They may well have feared that the king's vengeance for the murder of Gedaliah would involve innocent and guilty alike.... [ Continue Reading ]
_cause you to return_ better (seeing that they were already there), with a difference of vocalisation only in the original, _cause you to dwell in_.... [ Continue Reading ]
_we shall see no war_ We shall be in a land further from Babylon, and therefore not so liable to invasion.... [ Continue Reading ]
This connects well with Jeremiah 42:14, assuming (see introd. note) that Jeremiah 42:15 are by a supplementer.... [ Continue Reading ]
_have dealt deceitfully against your own souls_ i.e. _selves_or _lives_; mg. (less well) _in your souls_. It is best (with slight modification of the MT.) to render with LXX "ye have done evil against," etc. Jeremiah 43:1. See introd. summary to the section.... [ Continue Reading ]