JEREMIAH AND ZEDEKIAH AND THE FALL OF JERUSALEM (37-39) CHAPTER 37 _ 1. Jeremiah's warning (Jeremiah 37:1) _ 2. Jeremiah's arrest (Jeremiah 37:11) Jeremiah 37:1. To understand more fully
JEREMIAH 37, 38. FORTUNES OF JEREMIAH DURING THE SIEGE (588- 586). JEREMIAH 37:1. Zedekiah, made vassal-king in place of his nephew, Jehoiachin (in 597) sends Jehucal (Jeremiah 38:1) and Zephaniah (J...
WORDS. prophecies....
CHAPTER SIXTEEN EVENTS DURING THE LAST DAYS OF JERUSALEM Jeremiah 37:1 to Jeremiah 39:18 A period of some eighteen years separates the events of Chapter s 36 and 37. The focus in Chapter s 37 throug...
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. BUT NEITHER HE, NOR HIS SERVANTS, NOR THE PEOPLE ... DI...
1-5. The general position....
BUT NEITHER HE, NOR HIS SERVANTS... — The verse gives a general survey of the character of Zedekiah’s reign preparatory to the actual history that follows, which falls towards its close, probably in t...
וְ לֹ֥א שָׁמַ֛ע ה֥וּא וַ עֲבָדָ֖יו וְ
CHAPTER XI A BROKEN COVENANT Jeremiah 21:1, Jeremiah 34:1, Jeremiah 37:1 "All the princes and peoplechanged their minds and reduced to bondage again all the slaves whom they had set free....
This and the two following Chapter s contain the history of the siege up to the fall of the city. In the first part of this chapter Jeremiah was free. Zedekiah occupied the throne, but was disobedient...
What an awful thing it is, when children tread in the steps of their ungodly fathers, and the rising generation seem but to exceed the former in impiety....
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...
BUT NEITHER HE, NOR HIS SERVANTS, NOR THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND,.... The king, his courtiers and subjects the royal family, nobility, and common people; they were all degenerate and corrupt. Jarchi obser...
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. Ver. 2. _But neither he nor his servants did hearken._] A...
_Zedekiah, whom Nebuchadrezzar made king_ See 2 Kings 24:17; 2 Chronicles 36:10, where is related the history of Zedekiah's succession. He was but a tributary king, having taken an oath of homage to t...
A PROPHECY CONCERNING THE OUTCOME OF THE SIEGE...
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. Jeremiah 36:31....
BY THE PROPHET: _ Heb._ by the hand of the prophet...
1-10 Numbers witness the fatal effects of other men's sins, yet heedlessly step into their places, and follow the same destructive course. When in distress, we ought to desire the prayers of minister...
This Zedekiah was little better than Jehoiakim; he seemeth by his story to be of a little better temper, not so cruel and bloody; but he no more regarded God's word by his prophet than Jehoiakim had d...
Jeremiah 37:2 servants H5650 people H5971 land H776 heed H8085 (H8804) words H1697 LORD H3068 spoke H1696 ...
A SUMMARY OF THE POLITICAL SITUATION AT THIS STAGE (JEREMIAH 37:1). The political situation at this stage can be summed up in a few words. Jerusalem was under siege because Zedekiah, Jehoiakim's uncle...
THE DISOBEDIENCE OF JUDAH AND ITS KING IS HIGHLIGHTED BY THEIR TREATMENT OF THE PROPHET OF YHWH (JEREMIAH 37:1 TO JEREMIAH 38:28). These events once again took place during the reign of Zedekiah, the...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's imprisonment in the days of Zedekiah. CHARACTERS: Zedekiah, Coniah, Nebuchadnezzar, Jeremiah, Jehucal, Zephaniah, Jonathan, Irijah. CONCLUSION: It is no new thing for those who h...
Jeremiah 37:5. _Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt._ The Chaldeans were afraid of them, and raised the siege. But this joy to Jerusalem was of short continuance; the Chaldeans returned after t...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. In the tenth and eleventh year of Zedekiah. Later than chap. 21, for that embassy was sent when Nebuchadnezzar was marching against Jerusal...
EXPOSITION Nothing worthy of relation appears to have happened to Jeremiah till the latter period of the reign of Zedekiah. The first two verses of this chapter form the transition. The embassy to Je...
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...
1 Kings 14:18; 1 Kings 16:7; 1 Thessalonians 4:8; 2 Chronicles 36:12;...