Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Jeremiah 40:4
behold. Figure of speech Asterism. s. App-6.
hand. Some codices, with eight early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "hands".
behold. Figure of speech Asterism. s. App-6.
hand. Some codices, with eight early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "hands".
Verse Jeremiah 40:4. _COME; AND I WILL LOOK WELL UNTO THEE_] Thou art now at full liberty to do as thou pleasest; either to come to Babylon or to stay in thy own land....
III. AFTER THE FALL OF JERUSALEM (40-45) Chapter S 40-41 The Treachery in the Land and the Flight to Egypt _ 1. Jeremiah's choice (Jeremiah 40:1) _ 2. Gedaliah and Ishmael's deed (Jeremiah 40:7; J
JEREMIAH 40-44. The next five Chapter s continue the biography of Jeremiah, including connected events, after the capture of Jerusalem. JEREMIAH 40:1. RELEASE OF JEREMIAH. This paragraph is possibly...
_I will look well unto thee_ See on Jeremiah 39:12. _convenient_ lit. as mg. _right_. _but if it seem ill …_(5) _Go back then_, said he] The LXX have simply, "but, if not, depart, return," and, as gi...
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN TRAGEDY BEYOND TRAGEDY Jeremiah 40:1 to Jeremiah 45:5 Chapter s 40-44 are a continuation of the narrative begun in chapter 37 which was interrupted briefly by the oracle to Ebed-me...
And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unt...
GEDALIAH AS GOVERNOR (586 B.C.) Jeremiah 40:7 to Jeremiah 43:6 are briefly summarised in 2 Kings 25:22. The account in the book of Kings mentions merely the accomplished results; while here the proces...
וְ עַתָּ֞ה הִנֵּ֧ה פִתַּחְתִּ֣יךָ הַ יֹּ֗ום מ
CHAPTER XIII GEDALIAH Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 41:1; Jeremiah 52:1 "Then arose Ishmael ben Nethani
Chapter s forty and forty-one, which contain the prophecies of Jeremiah after the fall of Jerusalem, constitute his last messages to the chosen people. These fall into two parts-first, prophecies agai...
_Eyes, with all kindness, chap. xxxix. 12. (Haydock) --- Before thee. Thou hast liberty to choose, Genesis xiii. 9., and xx. 15., and xxiv. 51._...
It is blessed to trace the Lord's providences over the Lord's people. Here was Jeremiah enjoying more freedom and happiness from the appointment of enemies, than he had from professed friends. I pray...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 39 THROUGH 44. After this, chapter 39 and the following Chapter s give us the history of the confusion and iniquity that reigned among the remnant who were no...
AND NOW, BEHOLD, I LOOSE THEE THIS DAY FROM THE CHAINS WHICH [WERE] UPON THINE HANDS,.... Or rather are; for, when he said these words, it is highly probable they were on him, though now ordered to be...
And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which [were] upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill un...
_The captain of the guard said, The Lord thy God hath pronounced this evil_, &c. Although each of the Gentile or heathen nations worshipped its peculiar god or gods, yet they did not reject or deny th...
And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand, those of the Jews which had been placed upon him in malicious persecution as well as those of the Chaldeans which he...
JEREMIAH SET FREE...
I WILL LOOK WELL UNTO THEE: _ Heb._ I will set mine eye upon thee...
1-6 The captain of the guard seems to glory that he had been God's instrument to fulfil, what Jeremiah had been God's messenger to foretell. Many can see God's justice and truth with regard to others...
Nebuzar-adan, like a faithful servant, remembers his master's orders to him about the prophet, JEREMIAH 39:11, and offers Jeremiah greater favour than to any others of his prisoners; he determined oth...
Jeremiah 40:4 free H6605 (H8765) day H3117 chains H246 hand H3027 good H2896 H5869 come H935 ...
THE COMMENCEMENT OF JUDAH'S RESTORATION IS THWARTED BY THE ASSASSINATION OF GEDALIAH THE GOVERNOR AND BY THE REFUSAL OF THE PEOPLE TO LISTEN TO JEREMIAH AS THEY TAKE REFUGE IN EGYPT (JEREMIAH 40:1 TO...
THE DELIVERANCE OF JEREMIAH AND THE TEMPORARY RESTORATION OF JUDAH (JEREMIAH 40:1). The passage and section opens with the now familiar ‘the word which came to Jeremiah from YHWH ---' (compare and con...
SECTION 2 (JEREMIAH 26:1 TO JEREMIAH 45:5 CONTINUED). As we have previously seen this Section of Jeremiah from Jeremiah 26:1 to Jeremiah 45:
CONTENTS: Jeremiah discharged. The Jews under Gedeliah as Governor. Ishmael's design against Gedeliah. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Nebuzaradan, Gedeliah, Ishmael, Johanan, Seraiah, Jezaniah, Baalis. C...
Jeremiah 40:1. _The word which came to Jeremiah bound in chains._ This word is found in Jeremiah 42:9; and the intervening history is a parenthesis of Ishmael's treason. Jeremiah was now about seventy...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 40:2 Nebuzaradan recognizes the truth of Jeremiah’s preaching about Jerusalem’s fall. As Nebuchadnezzar ordered (Jeremiah 39:11), Nebuzaradan offered...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—A purely historical chapter, of events following the city’s ruin. It records the out-gleaming of a ray of hope upon the appalling gloom which had befallen the land, in t...
EXPOSITION The first of a series of chapters (40-45.) describing Jeremiah's fortunes and ministry after the fall of Jerusalem. JEREMIAH 40:1 The liberation of Jeremiah. JEREMIAH 40:1 THE WORD THAT...
Now as we come into the fourth part of the book of Jeremiah, these are the prophecies of Jeremiah to the people after Zedekiah was carried away and the remnant of the people who stayed here in the lan...
Genesis 13:9; Genesis 20:15; Genesis 47:6; Jeremiah 39:11; Jeremia