Jer 26:8-11, 20-23, 38:4-6, Amo 7:10-17, Mat 25:40, 26:57 | TSK | STEP

And in.This dungeon, which seems to have belonged to one of Zedekiah's sons, appears to have been a most dreadful place; the horrors of which were probably augmented by the cruelty of the jailor. "The eastern people," observes Sir J. Chardin, "have not different prisons for the different classes of criminals; the judges do not trouble themselves about where the prisoners are confined, or how they are treated, considering it merely as a place of safety; and all that they require of the jailor is, that the prisoner be forthcoming when called for. As to the rest, he is master to do as he pleases; to treat him well or ill; to put him in irons or not; to shut him up close, or hold him in easier restraint; to admit people to him, or to suffer nobody to see him. If the jailor and his servants have large fees, let the person be the greatest rascal in the world, he shall be lodged in the jailor's own apartment, and the best part of it; and on the contrary, if those that have imprisoned a man give the jailor greater presents, or that he has a greater regard for them, he will treat the prisoner with the greatest inhumanity." This adds a double energy to those passages which speak of "the sighing of the prisoner," and to Jeremiah's supplicating that he might not be remanded to the dungeon of Jonathan. (ver. 26; ch. 37:20.)

22; Ge 37:24; Ps 40:2; 69:2,14,15; La 3:52-55; Zec 9:11

Amos 7:10-17

the priest.

1Ki 12:31,32; 13:33; 2Ki 14:23,24; 2Ch 13:8,9; Jer 20:1-3

Jer 29:26,27; Mt 21:23This was truly a lying prophet; there was not one word of truth in his message to Jeroboam.

hath.

1Ki 18:17; Jer 26:8-11; 37:13-15; 38:4; Lu 23:2; Ac 5:28; 24:5

not.

Ge 37:8; Jer 18:18; Ac 7:54

thus.

Jer 26:9; 28:10,11; Ac 6:14

Jeroboam.

9; Ps 56:5; Mt 26:61

and Israel.

6:7,8; 2Ki 17:6

O thou.

1Sa 9:9; 2Ch 16:10; Isa 30:10

go.

2:12; Mt 8:34; Lu 8:37,38; 13:31; Ac 16:39

eat.

1Sa 2:36; Isa 56:11; Eze 13:19; Mal 1:10; Ro 16:18; 1Co 2:14

1Pe 5:2

prophesy.

2:12; Ac 4:17,18; 5:28,40

for.

1Ki 12:29,32; 13:1

chapel. or, sanctuary. king's court. Heb. house of thekingdom.

neither.

1Ki 20:35; 2Ki 2:3,5,7; 4:38; 6:1; 2Ch 16:7; 19:2; 20:34

an herdman.

1:1; Zec 13:5; 1Co 1:27

a gatherer.Rather, as {bolais} is rendered by the LXX. and Vulgate, [knizon,] {vellicans,} "a scraping," or a scraper of sycamores; for the fruit does not ripen till it is rubbed with iron combs.

sycamore fruit. or, wild figs.

took.

2Sa 7:8; Ps 78:70-72; Mt 4:18,19; 9:9

as I followed. Heb. from behind. Go.

Jer 1:7; Eze 2:3,4; Lu 24:46-48; Ac 1:8; 4:20; 5:20,29-32

hear.

1Sa 15:16; 1Ki 22:19; Jer 28:15-17

Prophesy.

13; Isa 30:10; Mic 2:6

and drop.

De 32:2; Eze 20:46; 21:2

Thy wife.