Jeremiah 40:1
THE THIRTY-SIXTH PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH (see book comments for Jeremiah). THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. CHAINS. the two fetters, as in Jeremiah 39:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE THIRTY-SIXTH PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH (see book comments for Jeremiah). THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. CHAINS. the two fetters, as in Jeremiah 39:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GUARD. See note on Jeremiah 39:9. SAID. Nebuzar-adan takes all the credit to himself. Compare Jeremiah 39:11. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. EVIL. calamity. Hebrew. _ra'a._ App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
BECAUSE YE HAVE SINNED, &C. Reference to Pentateuch.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterism_. _s_. App-6. HAND. Some codices, with eight early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "hands".... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW WHILE HE WAS NOT YET GONE BACK. And ere yet he could make reply. GEDALIAH. See note on Jeremiah 26:24, and Compare Jeremiah 39:14. SHAPHAN. See note on 2 Kings 22:3. REWARD. present.... [ Continue Reading ]
MIZPAH. North of Jerusalem, near Anathoth. Compare Jeremiah 41:5; Joshua 18:26. 1Sa 7:16. 1 Samuel 10:17, and 1 Kings 15:22. The scene of the following events: here had been Asa's fortress (Jeremiah 41:9); here Sennacherib and Nebuchadnezzar and Titus got their first view of Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Hebrew pi. of _'enosh._ App-14. GOVERNOR. No more attempts to make. king, after Zedekiah's perjury. See Ezekiel 17:15. CHILDREN. young children. POOR. Hebrew "poverty", put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for poor people. See Proverbs 6:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
ISHMAEL. The Massorites (App-30) set their hand to obliterate the Divine names in the case of men who had served to disgrace it. One is. _el_, in the compound "Ishmael", which means "whom my El heareth". It is used of five different men, and occurs forty-eight times: twenty times of Hagar's son; twe... [ Continue Reading ]
WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27. SUMMER FRUITS. Hebrew "summer". Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the fruits gathered in summer.... [ Continue Reading ]
FIELDS. field (singular)... [ Continue Reading ]
SLAY THEE. strike thy soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN. Hebrew. _Ish_. App-14. GATHERED. gathered out.... [ Continue Reading ]