CHAPTER XXXVI _God commands Jeremiah to write down in one roll or volume all_ _the predictions he had uttered against Israel and Judah, and_ _all the surrounding nations, from the day of his vocation to_ _the prophetic office, that the house of Judah might have_ _abundant warning of the dreadfu... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Jeremiah 36:2. _TAKE THEE A ROLL OF A BOOK_] Take a sufficient quantity of parchment; cut and stitch it together, that it may make a roll on which to write the words that I have already spoken, that they may serve for a testimony to future generations. The _Jewish rolls_, several of which now... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Jeremiah 36:3. _IT MAY BE THAT THE HOUSE OF JUDAH WILL HEAR_] It was yet possible to avert the judgments which had been so often denounced against them. But in order to this they must - 1. _Hear_ what God has spoken. 2. Every man _turn_ from his evil way. 3. If they do so, God graciously pr... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Jeremiah 36:4. _THEN JEREMIAH CALLED BARUCH_] This man, so useful to the prophet, and so faithfully attached to him, was by office a _scribe_; which signifies, not only a writer, but also a man in office; a chancellor, secretary, c., a learned man one acquainted with laws and customs.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Jeremiah 36:6. _UPON THE FASTING DAY_] A day when multitudes of people would be gathered together from all parts to implore the mercy of God. This was a favourable time to read these tremendous prophecies.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Jeremiah 36:7. _PRESENT THEIR SUPPLICATION_] "Let their supplication fall," that they may fall down before God, and deplore their sins.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Jeremiah 36:9. _IN THE NINTH MONTH_] Answering to a part of our _December_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Jeremiah 36:10. _IN THE CHAMBER OF GEMARIAH_] He was one of the princes of Judah. See Jeremiah 36:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Jeremiah 36:17. _HOW DIDST THOU WRITE ALL THESE WORDS? - AT HIS MOUTH?_] So the text should be pointed. They wished to know whether he had not copied them, or whether he wrote as Jeremiah prophesied.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Jeremiah 36:19. _GO, HIDE THEE, THOU AND JEREMIAH_] They saw that the king would be displeased, and most probably seek their lives; and as they believed the prophecy was from God, they wished to save both the prophet and his scribe; but they were obliged to inform the king of what they had hea... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Jeremiah 36:22. _WINTERHOUSE_] A warm apartment suited to the season of the year, (_December_,) when in Palestine there is often snow upon the ground, though it does not last long. _A fire on the hearth_-a _pan_ or _brazier_ of burning coals. This is the case to the present day. In cold weathe... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Jeremiah 36:23. _WHEN JEHUDI HAD READ THREE OR FOUR LEAVES_] Rather columns; for the law, and the sacred Hebrew Books, are written in _columns_ of a certain breadth. דלתות _delathoth_, signifies _gates_ or _openings_ between column and column, or between section and section. _HE CUT IT WITH T... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Jeremiah 36:25. _ELNATHAN AND DELAIAH AND GEMARIAH_] Three of the princes wished to _save the roll_, and entreated the king that it might not be burnt. They would have saved it _out of the fire_, but the king would not permit it to be done.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Jeremiah 36:26. _BUT THE LORD HID THEM._] They had, at the counsel of some of the princes, hidden themselves, Jeremiah 36:19. And now, though a diligent search was made, the Lord did not permit them to be found.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Jeremiah 36:28. _TAKE THEE AGAIN ANOTHER ROLL_] There was no duplicate of the former preserved; and now God inspired the prophet with the same matter that he had given him before; and there is to be added the heavy judgment that is to fall on Jehoiakim and his courtiers.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Jeremiah 36:30. _HE SHALL HAVE NONE TO SIT UPON THE THRONE OF DAVID_] He shall have no _successor_, and himself shall have an untimely end, and shall not even be buried, but his body be exposed to the open air, both night and day. He who wishes to hide his crimes, or take away the evidence whi... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Jeremiah 36:32. _THERE WERE ADDED - MANY LIKE WORDS._] All the first roll, with many other threatenings, and perhaps more minute declarations which were merely of a temporary importance and local application; and the Holy Spirit did not think proper to record them here.... [ Continue Reading ]