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Verse Jeremiah 38:27. _THE MATTER WAS NOT PERCEIVED._] They did not
question him farther; and the king's commandment to remove him from
the house of Jonathan being well known, they took for granted t...
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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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_perceived_ mg. _reported_, i.e. the princes were given no further
particulars as to the conversation....
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HE TOLD THEM ACCORDING TO ALL THESE WORDS— Jeremiah evidently had
besought the king not to suffer his being remanded to his former
prison, and had thanked him for the favour he had shewn him in drawin...
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F. Questioned by the Princes Jeremiah 38:27-28
TRANSLATION
(27) And all the princes came unto Jeremiah and questioned him; and he
told them according to all the words which the king commanded. Then
t...
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Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told
them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they
left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived...
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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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וַ יָּבֹ֨אוּ כָל ־הַ שָּׂרִ֤ים אֶֽל
־יִרְמְיָ
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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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The poor Prophet is hunted like the partridge upon the mountains. But
though in the midst of foes, yet in no real danger. As he was before
the siege, so through the whole of it; and so in the end. So...
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Here, indeed, the Prophet confesses that he did as the king had
commanded him; but he does not commend what he had done. There is no
doubt but that on the one hand he placed before his eyes the timidi...
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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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THEN CAME ALL THE PRINCES TO JEREMIAH, AND ASKED HIM,.... After he had
parted with the king, and was come back to the court of the prison; as
soon as the princes had been informed of the interview bet...
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Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told
them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they
left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived....
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_Then said Zedekiah, Let no man know of these words_, &c. Keep what
has passed between us secret, and I will keep my promise to thee of
preserving thy life. These words sufficiently show that Zedekiah...
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Jeremiah's Advice to the King...
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Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, just as the king had expected
that they would, AND ASKED HIM; AND HE TOLD THEM ACCORDING TO ALL
THESE WORDS THAT THE KING HAD COMMANDED. SO THEY LEFT OFF SPEAK...
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THEY LEFT OFF SPEAKING WITH HIM:
_ Heb._ they were silent from him...
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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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As the king suspected, so it came to pass; the king's private
discourse with the prophet took wind, and all the princes then at
court came and inquired of Jeremiah what was the substance of his
discou...
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Jeremiah 38:27 princes H8269 came H935 (H8799) Jeremiah H3414 asked
H7592 (H8799) told H5046 (H8686) words...
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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'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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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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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 10:15; 1 Samuel 10:16; 1 Samuel 16:2; 2 Kings 6:19; Acts 23:6