Jeremiah 43 - Introduction
_JOHANAN, DISCREDITING JEREMIAH'S PROPHESY, CARRIETH JEREMIAH AND OTHERS INTO EGYPT. JEREMIAH PROPHESIETH BY A TYPE THE CONQUEST OF EGYPT BY THE BABYLONIANS._ _Before Christ 588._... [ Continue Reading ]
_JOHANAN, DISCREDITING JEREMIAH'S PROPHESY, CARRIETH JEREMIAH AND OTHERS INTO EGYPT. JEREMIAH PROPHESIETH BY A TYPE THE CONQUEST OF EGYPT BY THE BABYLONIANS._ _Before Christ 588._... [ Continue Reading ]
AZARIAH—AND ALL THE PROUD MEN— That is, all those who refused to obey the commands of the Almighty. The Hebrew word זדים _zeidiim,_ signifies _pride, insolence, temerity, self-conceit._ The greater part of those who composed the company led on by Johanan, answered this character.... [ Continue Reading ]
BARUCH, THE SON OF NERIAH— They would not directly accuse Jeremiah of partiality towards, or confederacy with the Chaldeans, as his enemies had done formerly, chap. Jeremiah 37:13 but they lay the blame upon Baruch, whom they knew to be an intimate companion of Jeremiah, and to have been kindly used... [ Continue Reading ]
THUS CAME THEY EVEN TO TAHPANHES— That is to say, _to Daphne._ This was one of the principal cities of Egypt; and in it was a palace where their kings often resided. It is supposed by many to be the same city which was afterwards called _Daphne Pelusiaca._ See Isaiah 30:4. St. Jerome tells us from a... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKE GREAT STONES—AND HIDE THEM— _Bricks_ were the chief materials which the Babylonians used in their most stately buildings; so that there was constant occasion for such a brick-kiln near Pharaoh's palace. Yet this might be a great way from the dwelling-house itself, the courts of great kings bein... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR DEATH, TO DEATH— _For mortality, to the mortality._ See ch. Jeremiah 15:1 and the note.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL KINDLE A FIRE— _He shall kindle a fire._ Houbigant. "Nebuchadrezzar shall burn by my orders the temples of Egypt, and the palaces of the great men; and shall lead into captivity the kings, the subjects, and the gods." The author of the Observations remarks, that, "as the Arabs frequently with... [ Continue Reading ]
THE IMAGES OF BETH-SHEMESH.— _The solar statues of Heliopolis:_ or, The images of the house of the sun. REFLECTIONS.—1st, To a message so plain, there seemed no room for objection; but the devil will never fail to help sinners to an excuse for their infidelity and disobedience. 1. They pretend that... [ Continue Reading ]