"Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech,b that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire."
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Verse Jeremiah 38:6. _SO JEREMIAH SUNK IN THE MIRE._] Their obvious
design was, that he might be stifled in that place....
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THE DUNGEON - The cistern. Every house in Jerusalem was supplied with
a subterranean cistern, so well constructed that the city never
suffered in a siege from want of water. So large were they that wh...
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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. The char...
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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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DUNGEON. See note on Jeremiah 37:16.
HAMMELECH. the king. See note on Jeremiah 36:26.
PRISON. house of detention.
SUNK IN THE MIRE. To be preferred to the moral sinking of Zedekiah in
Jeremiah 38:2...
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_the dungeon of Malchijah_ mg. _pit_; a cistern for storage of water;
see on Jeremiah 6:7. The depth and wretchedness of this place of
confinement are shewn by the means employed to place Jeremiah in...
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THEN TOOK THEY JEREMIAH— It is commonly thought that Jeremiah,
during his abode in this loathsome place, composed the melancholy
meditations inserted in the third chapter of his Lamentations. See
Lame...
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C. Imprisoned by the Princes Jeremiah 38:1-6
TRANSLATION
(1) And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur,
and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur, the son of Malchiah heard
th...
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Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah
the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they
let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no wa...
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38:6 dungeon (a-10) As ch. 37.16, and so throughout. Hammelech, (b-16)
See Note, ch. 36.26....
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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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THE DUNGEON OF MALCHIAH THE SON OF HAMMELECH. — Literally, _the
pit,_ or _cistern._ The LXX. agrees with the marginal reading in
describing him as “a son of the king.” The same phrase is so
translated...
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וַ יִּקְח֣וּ אֶֽת ־יִרְמְיָ֗הוּ וַ
יַּשְׁלִ֨כוּ אֹתֹ֜ו אֶל ־הַ בֹּ֣ור ׀
מַלְכִּיָּ֣הוּ בֶן ־הַ מֶּ֗לֶךְ...
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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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_Mire, up to the neck; so that he would soon have been smothered.
(Josephus, Antiquities x. 10.)_...
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What an awful character was Zedekiah! Surely he had strong convictions
of the truth, but like another Felix, though he trembled under the
word, yet he consents to execute the preacher. Acts 24:25....
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HERE is narrated the extreme presumption as well as cruelty of the
princes; for they cast the holy Prophet into a pit, where he sank in
the mire. It was a proof of hardened impiety not to spare so exc...
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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 TOOK THEY JEREMIAH,.... Having the king's leave, or at least no
prohibition from him; they went with proper attendants to the court of
the prison, and took the prophet from thence:
AND CAST HIM...
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Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the
son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of the prison: and they let
down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon [there was] no...
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_Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah_ A
place of much the same nature with that mentioned Jeremiah 37:16, but
in another prison. _And they let down Jeremiah with cords_ I...
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JEREMIAH CAST INTO A PIT...
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OF HAMMELECH:
Or, of the king...
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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
w...
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CAST HIM INTO THE DUNGEON OF MALCHIAH THE SON OF HAMMELECH, THAT WAS
IN THE COURT OF THE PRISON; a place much of the same nature with that
of which we read JEREMIAH 37:16, but in another prison. It sh...
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Jeremiah 38:6 took H3947 (H8799) Jeremiah H3414 cast H7993 (H8686)
dungeon H953 Malchiah H4441 kings H4428 son H1121 court H2691 prison
H4307 let H7971 Jeremiah H3414 down H7971 (H8762) ropes H2256 du...
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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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THEN TOOK THEY
(_ See Scofield) - (Jeremiah 37:11). _...
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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:...
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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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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 38:6 Unlike in Jeremiah 37:20, Jeremiah
cannot avoid imprisonment in a CISTERN. Cisterns were dug out of rock,
had a small opening, and spread out at the bottom. Escape from...
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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 vi...
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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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2 Corinthians 4:8; 2 Corinthians 4:9; Acts 16:24; Genesis 37:24;
Hebrews 10:36; Jeremiah 36:26; Jeremiah 37:16; Jeremiah 37:21;
Jeremiah 38:11;...