Jeremiah 40:1
CONTENTS We have here some of the events which took place at Jerusalem, immediately after the city was taken, the history is carried on.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONTENTS We have here some of the events which took place at Jerusalem, immediately after the city was taken, the history is carried on.... [ Continue Reading ]
It is blessed to trace the Lord's providences over the Lord's people. Here was Jeremiah enjoying more freedom and happiness from the appointment of enemies, than he had from professed friends. I pray the Reader, however, not to overlook the cause, in the Lord's appointment. How fully was that script... [ Continue Reading ]
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 nobles. And the gathering of the summer fruits for themselves seems to have been a confirmation of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
We have here the information of a conspiracy: but the accomplishment is not related in this Chapter. In the succeeding one it is. Alas! neither mercies nor judgments; the fear of death nor of hell, find their influence on some men's minds. Oh! what a wretched, fallen, depraved state, hath our nature... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS I BEG the Reader to make a solemn pause over this Chapter, and to remark, how soon a sense of divine judgments lose their effect, except divine grace keep the remembrance of them, with all their blessed consequences, alive in our hearts. Who should have conceived that after so alarming a... [ Continue Reading ]