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Verse Jeremiah 38:19. _THEY MOCK ME._] Insult me, and exhibit me in
triumph....
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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....
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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
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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...
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AFRAID. apprehensive....
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_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 a...
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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...
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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...
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AND THEY MOCK ME] for not surrendering sooner as they had done....
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1-3. The removal of Jeremiah from the prison was favourable to the
publication of his message. Hence the alarm of the princes....
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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...
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וַ יֹּ֛אמֶר הַ מֶּ֥לֶךְ צִדְקִיָּ֖הוּ
אֶֽל ־י
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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...
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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...
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_Jews. Traitors, whom Sedecias had perhaps treated ill. (Calmet)_...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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_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...
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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...
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Jeremiah's Advice to the King...
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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...
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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...
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Jeremiah 38:19 Zedekiah H6667 king H4428 said H559 (H8799) Jeremiah
H3414 afraid H1672 (H8802) Jews H3064 defect
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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...
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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...
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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...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's imprisonment, continued. His private conference
with the king.
CHARACTERS: Shephatiah, Gedaliah, Jucal, Pashur, Jeremiah, Zedekiah,
Malchiah, Ebed-melech, Jonathan.
CONCLUSION: G...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 15:24; 1 Samuel 31:4; Isaiah 45:10; Isaiah 45:9; Isaiah 51:12
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Lest they — Lest the Chaldeans should deliver me into the hands of
those Jews which have fallen to them....