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WILT THOU NOT HEARKEN ...! - Rather, Thou wilt not hearken....
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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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WILT THOU NOT... ME?. thou wilt not. This second clause is not.
question in the Hebrew text....
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_thou wilt not hearken unto me_ Cp., as illustrating Zedekiah's
weakness of character, his words in the next _v_. with those which he
had addressed to the princes (Jeremiah 38:5)....
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IF I DECLARE IT UNTO THEE, &C.— The prophet had so often experienced
the unsteadiness of the king's temper, his backwardness to follow good
counsel, and his want of courage to support those who dared...
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E. Interviewed by the King Jeremiah 38:14-26
TRANSLATION
(14) Zedekiah the king sent and had Jeremiah the prophet brought unto
him at the third entrance of the house of the LORD. And the king said
un...
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Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt
thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou
not hearken unto me?
IF I GIVE THEE COUNSEL, WILT THOU NOT H...
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WILT THOU NOT SURELY PUT ME TO DEATH? — The prophet obviously speaks
as if he believed the king to have sanctioned the severe measures that
had been taken against him, and having no other “word of the...
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וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר יִרְמְיָ֨הוּ֙ אֶל
־צִדְקִיָּ֔הוּ כִּ֚י...
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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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This must have been a very interesting interview between the king and
the Prophet; and it is impossible but to take concern in it, and to
wish that Zedekiah had listened to the Prophet's advice. And a...
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THE Prophet seems here to have acted not very discreetly; for when he
ought of his own accord to have announced to the king the destruction
of the city, being asked he refused to answer, or at least h...
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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 JEREMIAH SAID UNTO ZEDEKIAH,.... Here follows the prophets
answer, in which he tacitly desires to be excused saying any thing
upon this head, since it might be attended with danger to himself, an...
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Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare [it] unto thee, wilt
thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou
not hearken unto me?
Ver. 15. _If I declare it unto thee._]...
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_Then Jeremiah said, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely
put me to death?_ “The prophet had so much experience of the
unsteadiness of the king's temper, of his backwardness in following
go...
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Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, telling
him the plain truth as it had been revealed by the Lord, WILT THOU NOT
SURELY PUT ME TO DEATH? AND IF I GIVE THEE COUNSEL, namely,...
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Jeremiah's Advice to the King...
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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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Jeremiah had reason to caution with the king for his life, considering
the easy answer of the king to the princes, moving for his death,
JEREMIAH 38:4,5. We must imagine Jeremiah at this time under no...
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Jeremiah 38:15 Jeremiah H3414 said H559 (H8799) Zedekiah H6667 declare
H5046 (H8686) surely H4191 (H8687) death
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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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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 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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Luke 22:67; Luke 22:68...