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The men would be the old and infirm: the women those whose husbands
and protectors had perished in the wars (e. g. Jeremiah 41:10). The
word children includes all the inferior members of a household....
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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
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THE GOVERNORSHIP OF GEDALIAH. The scattered Jewish forces which
remained heard of Gedaliah's appointment as governor, and made
submission to him at Mizpah. He guaranteed their security, and
encouraged...
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MEN. Hebrew pi. of _'enosh._ App-14.
GOVERNOR. No more attempts to make. king, after Zedekiah's perjury.
See Ezekiel 17:15.
CHILDREN. young children.
POOR. Hebrew "poverty", put by Figure of speech...
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_all the captains of the forces_ the various leaders of bands among
the Jews, who would keep out of the way during the presence of the
Babylonian forces and until they found what was likely to be the...
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Abbreviated from 2 Kings 25:23 f....
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B. The Program of Gedaliah Jeremiah 40:7-12
TRANSLATION
(7) When all the army officers and their men who were in the field
heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam over...
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Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields,
even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed
u...
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40:7 fields, (c-12) Or 'open country,' so ver. 13....
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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...
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FORCES WHICH _were_ IN THE FIELDS] keeping out of the way until the
Babylonian army departed, and they should have learned the nature of
the new government: cp. Jeremiah 40:13....
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וַ יִּשְׁמְעוּ֩ כָל ־שָׂרֵ֨י הַ
חֲיָלִ֜ים אֲש
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CHAPTER XIII
GEDALIAH
Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 41:1; Jeremiah 52:1
"Then arose Ishmael ben Nethani
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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...
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Now when all the captains of the forces (d) who [were] in the fields,
[even] they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had commit...
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_Captains, who had fled from Sedecias, and effected their escape.
(Josephus, Antiquities x. 11.)_...
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It appears by the appointment of one of their own people among the
Jews to be Governor, that the King of Babylon meant kindness to the
lower orders of the people, though he had slain their king and no...
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Mention has been before made of Gedaliah. We have seen that the
Prophet was once rescued from death through his kindness, for he
interposed for him when almost all with one consent doomed the holy
Pro...
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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...
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NOW WHEN ALL THE CAPTAINS OF THE FORCES WHICH [WERE] IN THE
FIELDS,.... Not the captains of the king of Babylon's forces, but the
captains of the king of Judah's forces; who either during the siege
ha...
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Now when all the captains of the forces which [were] in the fields,
[even] they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committe...
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_Now when all the captains of the forces heard, &c., they came to
Gedaliah_ By the taking of Jerusalem the Chaldeans made a complete
conquest of Judea; whereupon that part of the Jewish army which had...
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Now, when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, the
leaders of the Jewish army who had fled to hide themselves in remote
and inaccessible places of the land, EVEN THEY AND THEIR MEN...
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GEDALIAH MADE GOVERNOR AND THREATENED BY THE JEWS...
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7-16 Jeremiah had never in his prophecies spoken of any good days for
the Jews, to come immediately after the captivity; yet Providence
seemed to encourage such an expectation. But how soon is this h...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Jeremiah 40:7 captains H8269 armies H2428 fields H7704 men H582 heard
H8085 (H8799) king H4428 Babylon H894 Gedaliah
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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...
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POLITICAL EVENTS IN THE NEW JUDAH - GEDALIAH RE-ESTABLISHES JUDAH BUT
IS ASSASSINATED (JEREMIAH 40:7 TO JEREMIAH 41:18).
What follows is a description of the events that followed the
appointment of Ge...
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RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF JUDAH UNDER THE GOVERNORSHIP OF GEDALIAH (JEREMIAH
40:7).
Once the news got about that Gedaliah had been appointed governor,
that Judah was now populated by ‘the poor of the land',...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Kings 25:22; 2 Kings 25:23; 2 Kings 25:4; Ezekiel 33:24;...