Jer 32:5, 34:3, 52:11, Eze 12:13 | JFB | STEP | 5. visit him —in a good sense ( ); referring to the honor paid Zedekiah at his death and burial ( ). Perhaps, too, before his death he was treated by Nebuchadnezzar with some favor. though ye fight . . . shall not prosper

Jeremiah 32:5

5. visit him—in a good sense (Jer 27:22); referring to the honor paid Zedekiah at his death and burial (Jer 34:4, 5). Perhaps, too, before his death he was treated by Nebuchadnezzar with some favor.

though ye fight . . . shall not prosper— (Jer 21:4).

Jeremiah 34:3

3. (Jer 32:4).

Jeremiah 52:11

11. Eze 12:13: "I will bring him to Babylon . . . yet shall he not see it."

prison—literally, "the house of visitations," or "punishments," that is, where there was penal work enforced on the prisoners, such as grinding. Hence the Septuagint renders it "the house of the mill." So Samson, after his eyes were put out, "ground" in the Philistine prison-house (Jud 16:21).

Ezekiel 12:13

13. My net—the Chaldean army. He shall be inextricably entangled in it, as in the meshes of a net. It is God's net (Job 19:6). Babylon was God's instrument (Isa 10:5). Called "a net" (Hab 1:14-16).

bring him to Babylon . . . ; yet shall he not see it—because he should be deprived of sight before he arrived there (Jer 52:11).