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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 40:8

Verse Jeremiah 40:8. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah] This is he who afterwards murdered Gedaliah. He had been employed to do this by Baalis, king of the Ammonites, with whom he appears to have taken refuge during the siege. See Jeremiah 40:14.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ISHMAEL. The Massorites (App-30) set their hand to obliterate the Divine names in the case of men who had served to disgrace it. One is. _el_, in the compound "Ishmael", which means "whom my El hearet...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Abbreviated from 2 Kings 25:23 f....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the Netophathite_ Netophah was apparently identical with _Beit Nettif_, a village W. of Bethlehem at the entrance to the Vale of Elah. See Buhl's _Geographie des alten Palästina_, p. 194. It was not...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jez...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE NETOPHATHITE] Netophah was a village near Bethlehem (Nehemiah 7:26)....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEN THEY CAME TO GEDALIAH. — Of the captains thus named, Ishmael, “of the seed royal” (we have no date for determining his precise position in the line of successors) (Jeremiah 41:1), is prominent in...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּבֹ֥אוּ אֶל ־גְּדַלְיָ֖ה הַ מִּצְפָּ֑תָה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XIII GEDALIAH Jeremiah 39:1; Jeremiah 40:1; Jeremiah 41:1; Jeremiah 52:1 "Then arose Ishmael ben Nethani

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even (e) Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    _They _then and _their men, came to Gedaliah, _when they _heard _that the king of Babylon had set Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, over Judea, and that men, women, and children were committed to his power...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN THEY CAME TO GEDALIAH TO MIZPAH,.... Having heard that the Chaldean army was gone, and so were in no fear of that; and also that Gedaliah was made deputy governor, one of their own nation, a piou...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jeza...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, of royal lineage, 41:1, AND JOHANAN AND JONATHAN, THE SONS OF KAREAH, AND SERAIAH, THE SON OF TAN-HUMETH, AND THE SONS OF EPHA...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    GEDALIAH MADE GOVERNOR AND THREATENED BY THE JEWS...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    It is most likely that these captains with their forces were no newly raised and formed companies; for to what purpose should that be when their city and whole country was lost? but some commanders of...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 40:8 came H935 (H8799) Gedaliah H1436 Ishmael H3458 son H1121 Nethaniah H5418 Johanan H3110 Jonathan H3129

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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',...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 11:30; 1 Chronicles 2:48; 1 Chronicles 2:54; 2 Kings 25:23;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Ishmael — It is likely these were commanders of parties, which either were within the city 'till it was taken, and then escaped, or where somewhere in the country, and not so much regarded by the Chal...

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