_JEREMIAH, BEING IMPRISIONED BY ZEDEKIAH FOR HIS PROPHESY, BUYETH HANAMEEL'S FIELD. BARUCH IS CHARGED TO PRESERVE THE EVIDENCES, AS TOKENS OF THE PEOPLE'S RETURN. JEREMIAH IN HIS PRAYER COMPLAINETH TO GOD. GOD CONFORTETH THE CAPTIVES, AND PROMISETH A GRACIOUS RETURN._ _Before Christ 589._... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAH— This chapter has no connection with the preceding. Nebuchadrezzar came to besiege Jerusalem the 10th day of the 10th month of the 9th year of Zedekiah; see chap. Jeremiah 39:1 Jeremiah 52:4. Jeremiah, at the beginning of the siege, foretold to Zedekiah, that the city... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME— Jeremiah, after having just informed us why he was put into prison, returns to his design, and tells us, that God had advised him, in a dream or vision, that Hanameel his cousin should come to him with the offer of a field in Anathoth; the right of redeeming whereo... [ Continue Reading ]
PUT THEM IN AN EARTHEN VESSEL— To preserve them from fire and moisture. See Calmet. It was common with the ancients to put their writings into earthen vessels. Origen found at Jericho a version of the Scriptures hid in an earthen pot. See Job 19:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND RECOMPENSEST THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS— This passage is easily reconciled with the 29th and following verses of the former chapter, by remembering that the prophet is here speaking of the old, and there of the new covenant. See the notes on that passage.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH HATH SET SIGNS AND WONDERS— _Who hast performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt; and who in Israel, and amongst other men, even to this day, hast made thyself a great name, as it now is._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD THE MOUNTS— See Isaiah 37:33 where the same word is used.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE CITY IS GIVEN— _Although the city be given._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS CITY HAS BEEN TO ME, &C.— David was the builder of that part of Jerusalem called _Sion;_ therefore it was styled _the city of David._ He also enlarged the whole city, and made it the seat of his kingdom; but we do not read that idolatry was committed here in David's time; so that the expres... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NOW THEREFORE— _But now notwithstanding._... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD, I WILL GATHER THEM— This and the following verses, to the 41st, respect such a return from the Babylonish captivity, as must and ought to be understood of the preaching of the Gospel, of the manifestation of the Messiah, of the new covenant, of the foundation of the Christian church, and of... [ Continue Reading ]