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Verse Jeremiah 38:10. _TAKE FROM HENCE THIRTY MEN_] The king was
determined that he should be rescued by force, if the princes opposed....
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THIRTY MEN - So large a number suggests that Zedekiah expected some
resistance. (Some read “three” men.)...
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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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Four of the princes (Jeremiah 37:15) hear Jeremiah (confined in the
guard-court, Jeremiah 37:21) foretelling the fall of the city and
advising individual surrender (_cf._ Jeremiah 21:9 f.). They denou...
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THIRTY. The king knew the danger. No need to suppose that "thirty" is.
copyist's error for "three"!...
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See introd. summary to section....
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_thirty men_ The construction of the Heb. numeral is irregular, and we
should read THREE, as under the circumstances a more likely number for
this duty....
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D. Rescued by Ebed-melech Jeremiah 38:7-13
TRANSLATION
(7) And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian. one of the eunuchs attached to the
household if the king, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the
dungeon. No...
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Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from
hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of
the dungeon, before he die.
TAKE FROM, HENCE ... WITH THEE -...
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1-3. The removal of Jeremiah from the prison was favourable to the
publication of his message. Hence the alarm of the princes....
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THIRTY] possibly a copyist's error for 'three.'The two words resemble
each other much more closely in Hebrew than in English.
14-28. The king again asks the prophet's advice. Result....
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וַ יְצַוֶּ֣ה הַ מֶּ֔לֶךְ אֵ֛ת
עֶֽבֶד־מֶ֥לֶךְ...
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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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See how the Lord raiseth instruments, from the most unexpected
quarters, for the deliverance of his people. Here was a stranger, and
a Gentile, prompted to fly to the rescue of one of the Lord's
proph...
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We here see, what I have already said, that; the Prophet’s
deliverance was wholly from above. The king, smitten with fear, had
lately given over the holy Prophet to the cruelty of his princes; and
had...
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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 THE KING COMMANDED EBEDMELECH THE ETHIOPIAN,.... Being affected
with the case of the prophet; and repenting of the leave he had given
the princes to do with him as they pleased, gave orders as fo...
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Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from
hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of
the dungeon, before he die.
Ver. 10. _Then the king commanded E...
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_Then the king commanded_, &c. The king, who a little while ago durst
do nothing against the princes, has now his heart wonderfully and
suddenly changed, and will have Jeremiah released in defiance of...
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JEREMIAH CAST INTO A PIT...
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Then the king commanded Ebed-melech, the Ethiopian, saying, Take from
hence thirty men with thee, a sufficiently large squad under his
command to protect Jeremiah in case some of the princes or their...
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WITH THEE:
_ Heb._ in thine hand...
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1-13 Jeremiah went on in his plain preaching. The princes went on in
their malice. It is common for wicked people to look upon God's
faithful ministers as enemies, because they show what enemies the...
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There are several guesses why the king commandeth Ebed-melech to take
THIRTY MEN for the doing of that for which three or four were
sufficient. I think they judge best who think it was to guard him
ag...
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Jeremiah 38:10 king H4428 commanded H6680 (H8762) Ebed-Melech H5663
Ethiopian H3569 saying H559 (H8800) Take H3947
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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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JEREMIAH IS SEEN AS A TRAITOR AND IS THRUST INTO A WELL FILLED WITH
DEEP MUD WHICH WAS IN THE COURT OF THE GUARD, WHERE HE WOULD HAVE DIED
HAD HE NOT BEEN RESCUED BY EBEDMELECH, A SUDANESE (JEREMIAH 3...
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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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_Ebed-melech the Ethiopian._
EBED-MELECH THE ETHIOPIAN
A slave from the Soudan, an eunuch in the household of Zedekiah, King
of Judah, is by the side of the great Jeremiah, a humble servant yet
an e...
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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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Esther 5:2; Esther 8:7; Proverbs 21:1; Psalms 75:10...
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Thirty men — Probably the king commanded Ebed — melech to take
thirty men to guard him against any opposition....