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Jeremiah 38:6

JEREMIAH—NOTE ON Jeremiah 38:6 Unlike in Jeremiah 37:20, Jeremiah cannot avoid imprisonment in a cistern. Cisterns were dug out of rock, had a small opening, and spread out at the bottom. Escape from such a place was virtually impossible, so perhaps only notorious prisoners were put there (see Genesis 37:20, with esv footnote). sank in the mud. A slow, filthy way to die.

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See also Jeremiah 38:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 38:6. _SO JEREMIAH SUNK IN THE MIRE._] Their obvious design was, that he might be stifled in that place....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE DUNGEON - The cistern. Every house in Jerusalem was supplied with a subterranean cistern, so well constructed that the city never suffered in a siege from want of water. So large were they that wh...

  • 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

    Four of the princes (Jeremiah 37:15) hear Jeremiah (confined in the guard-court, Jeremiah 37:21) foretelling the fall of the city and advising individual surrender (_cf._ Jeremiah 21:9 f.). They denou...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DUNGEON. See note on Jeremiah 37:16. HAMMELECH. the king. See note on Jeremiah 36:26. PRISON. house of detention. SUNK IN THE MIRE. To be preferred to the moral sinking of Zedekiah in J

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the dungeon of Malchijah_ mg. _pit_; a cistern for storage of water; see on Jeremiah 6:7. The depth and wretchedness of this place of confinement are shewn by the means employed to place Jeremiah in...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEN TOOK THEY JEREMIAH— It is commonly thought that Jeremiah, during his abode in this loathsome place, composed the melancholy meditations inserted in the third chapter of his Lamentations. See Lame...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. Imprisoned by the Princes Jeremiah 38:1-6 TRANSLATION (1) And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur, the son of Malchiah heard th...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no wa...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    38:6 dungeon (a-10) As ch. 37.16, and so throughout. Hammelech, (b-16) See Note, ch. 36.26....

  • 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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DUNGEON] RM 'pit,'or cistern. It is conjectured that Psalms 69 may have been composed by Jeremiah on this occasion. 7-13. Jeremiah is rescued by Ebed-melech....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE DUNGEON OF MALCHIAH THE SON OF HAMMELECH. — Literally, _the pit,_ or _cistern._ The LXX. agrees with the marginal reading in describing him as “a son of the king.” The same phrase is so translated...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּקְח֣וּ אֶֽת ־יִרְמְיָ֗הוּ וַ יַּשְׁלִ֨כוּ...

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Mire, up to the neck; so that he would soon have been smothered. (Josephus, Antiquities x. 10.)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    What an awful character was Zedekiah! Surely he had strong convictions of the truth, but like another Felix, though he trembled under the word, yet he consents to execute the preacher. Acts 24:25....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    HERE is narrated the extreme presumption as well as cruelty of the princes; for they cast the holy Prophet into a pit, where he sank in the mire. It was a proof of hardened impiety not to spare so exc...

  • 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

    THEN TOOK THEY JEREMIAH,.... Having the king's leave, or at least no prohibition from him; they went with proper attendants to the court of the prison, and took the prophet from thence: AND CAST HIM...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon [there was] no...

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

    _Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah_ A place of much the same nature with that mentioned Jeremiah 37:16, but in another prison. _And they let down Jeremiah with cords_ I...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JEREMIAH CAST INTO A PIT...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then took they Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon, a pit formerly used as a cistern, OF MALCHIAH, THE SON OF HAMMELECH, THAT WAS IN THE COURT OF THE PRISON; AND THEY LET DOWN JEREMIAH WITH CORDS,...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    OF HAMMELECH: Or, of the king...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-13 Jeremiah went on in his plain preaching. The princes went on in their malice. It is common for wicked people to look upon God's faithful ministers as enemies, because they show what enemies the...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    CAST HIM INTO THE DUNGEON OF MALCHIAH THE SON OF HAMMELECH, THAT WAS IN THE COURT OF THE PRISON; a place much of the same nature with that of which we read JEREMIAH 37:16, but in another prison. It sh...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 38:6 took H3947 (H8799) Jeremiah H3414 cast H7993 (H8686) dungeon H953 Malchiah H4441 kings H4428 son...

  • 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

    JEREMIAH IS SEEN AS A TRAITOR AND IS THRUST INTO A WELL FILLED WITH DEEP MUD WHICH WAS IN THE COURT OF THE GUARD, WHERE HE WOULD HAVE DIED HAD HE NOT BEEN RESCUED BY EBEDMELECH, A SUDANESE (JEREMIAH 3...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    THEN TOOK THEY (_ See Scofield) - (Jeremiah 37:11). _...

  • 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 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

    2 Corinthians 4:8; 2 Corinthians 4:9; Acts 16:24; Genesis 37:24;...

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