The prison - the watch (marginal reference).
Piece - literally, a circle, i. e., a round cake.
The bakers’ street - It is usual in oriental towns for each trade to have a special place set apart for it. Compare Acts 10:6.
Verse Jeremiah 37:21. _THEN ZEDEKIAH - THE COURT OF THE PRISON_] Was contiguous to the king's house, where the prisoners could readily see their friends. _GIVE HIM DAILY A PIECE OF BREAD OUT OF THE B...
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, during the interval in the siege, is leaving the city by a northern gate on private business (perhaps connected with the earlier incident of Jeremiah 32:6 ff.), when he is arrested by the of...
PRISON. guard-house. Not the same word as in Jeremiah 37:15. PIECE. a cake. Compare Jeremiah 52:6. Three were reckoned as. meal (Luke 11:5);. soldier's ration at that time....
See introd. summary to ch....
_court of the guard_ See on Jeremiah 32:2. _a loaf of bread_ a flat round cake, not unlike a flat stone in shape and appearance (Matthew 7:9, cp. Jeremiah 4:3), about nine inches in diameter and an in...
A PIECE OF BREAD OUT OF THE BAKERS' STREET— Though among the easterns an oven was designed only to serve a single family, and to bake for them no more than the bread of one day, in ancient times;—a ci...
B. Summoned by the King Jeremiah 37:16-21 TRANSLATION (16) When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon vaults and had remained there several days, (17) Zedekiah the king sent and had him brought; and the...
Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in...
See on Jeremiah 32:2. EVENTS DURING THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM (REIGN OF ZEDEKIAH) Here after two parenthetical Chapter s (35, 36) concerning the time of Jehoiakim, we revert to the narrative (beginning...
1-5. The general position....
INTO THE COURT OF THE PRISON... — This was obviously a concession to Jeremiah’s request, and here he remained (see Jeremiah 32:2; Jeremiah 33:1), with one brief exception (Jeremiah 38:6), till the cap...
וַ יְצַוֶּ֞ה הַ מֶּ֣לֶךְ צִדְקִיָּ֗הוּ וַ יַּ
CHAPTER XII JEREMIAH'S IMPRISONMENT Jeremiah 37:11, Jeremiah 38:1, Jeremiah 39:15 "Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken."-...
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...
Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the baker's street, until all the (i) bread...
We have here a most interesting relation, in which Jeremiah appears most delightful indeed. Neither stripes, nor prisons, can make the faithful servants of the Lord less faithful: yea the exercises of...
REFLECTIONS READER! I pass by several other weighty things, which might be proposed, from the view of the events recorded in this Chapter, to call your attention, while I wish to exercise my own, on t...
The Prophet tells us, that God regarded the miseries to which he had been unjustly exposed: and the king no doubt became humane towards Jeremiah, because God turned his heart towards what was just and...
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...
THEN ZEDEKIAH THE KING COMMANDED THAT THEY SHOULD COMMIT JEREMIAH INTO THE COURT OF THE PRISON,.... He did not think fit to discharge him entirely, lest it should give offence to the princes, who had...
Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in t...
_Moreover Jeremiah said, What have I offended against thee_ What law have I broken? What injury have I done to thee, or thy people, or government, _that ye have put me in prison_ Have put me into the...
Then Zedekiah, the king, yielding at least to this extent, COMMANDED THAT THEY SHOULD COMMIT JEREMIAH INTO THE COURT OF THE PRISON, where he at least had the advantages of light and air, AND THAT THEY...
Jeremiah's Arrest and Imprisonment...
11-21 There are times when it is the wisdom of good men to retire, to enter into their chambers, and to shut the doors, Isaiah 26:20. Jeremiah was seized as a deserter, and committed to prison. But i...
COMMANDED THAT THEY SHOULD COMMIT JEREMIAH INTO THE COURT OF THE PRISON; so as he was a prisoner still, but in a freer air, where he did not suffer those inconveniences which he endured in the hole or...
Jeremiah 37:21 Zedekiah H6667 king H4428 commanded H6680 (H8762) commit H6485 (H8686) Jeremiah H3414 court H2691
AFTER HAVING SPENT SOME TIME IN PRISON JEREMIAH WAS SUMMONED TO APPEAR BEFORE KING ZEDEKIAH WHO SECRETLY SOUGHT HIS COUNSEL, GIVING JEREMIAH THE OPPORTUNITY TO APPEAL AGAINST HIS SITUATION. AS A RESUL...
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...
_And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem._ JEREMIAH PERSECUTED After the captivity and death of Jehoiakim, his brother Zedekiah, another son of Josiah, s...
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 17:4; 2 Kings 25:3; 2 Timothy 1:8; 2 Timothy 2:9; Acts 12:5;...