2Ki 25:25, Jer 41-44, 52:30 | TSK | STEP | seventh. Ishmael. royal. Heb. of the kingdom.

2 Kings 25:25

seventh.

Zec 7:5; 8:19

Ishmael.

Jer 40:15,16; 41:1-15

royal. Heb. of the kingdom.

11:1

Jeremiah 41

1 Ishmael, treacherously killing Gedaliah and others, purposes with the residue to flee unto the Ammonites.

11 Johanan recovers the captives, and is minded to flee into Egypt.

the seventh month.This was the month {Tisri,} answering to the new moon of September, the seventh of the sacred, but the first of the civil year; on the third day of which the Jews keep a fast, in commemoration of the death of Gedaliah, to which the prophet Zechariah refers, ch. 8:19; 39:2; 52:6. 2 Ki 25:3, 8, 25. Zec 7:5; 8:19.

Ishmael.

40:6,8

Elishama.

36:12,20

of the.

Pr 13:10; 27:4; Jas 4:1-3

seed.

2Ki 11:1; 2Ch 22:10; Eze 17:13

they did.

40:14-16; 2Sa 3:27; 20:9,10; Ps 41:9; 109:5; Pr 26:23-26

Da 11:26,27; Lu 22:47,48; Joh 13:18

and smote.

2Ki 25:25

whom.

40:7

11,12; 2Ki 25:25; Ec 9:18; La 1:2

after.

1Sa 27:11; Ps 52:1,2

came.

2Ki 10:13,14

Shechem.

Ge 33:18; 34:2; Jos 24:32; Jud 9:1; 1Ki 12:1,25

Shiloh.

7:12,14; Jos 18:1

Samaria.

1Ki 16:24,29

their beards.All these were signs of deep mourning; which, though forbidden on funeral occasions, were customary, and perhaps counted allowable, on seasons of public calamity, and this mourning was probably on account of the destruction of Jerusalem.

Le 19:27,28; De 14:1; 2Sa 10:4; Isa 15:2

to the.

1Sa 1:7; 2Ki 25:9; Ps 102:14

weeping, etc. Heb. in going and weeping.

50:4; 2Sa 1:2-16; 3:16; Pr 26:23-26

slew.

1Ki 15:28,29; 16:10-12; 2Ki 11:1,2; 15:25; Ps 55:23; Pr 1:16

Isa 59:7; Eze 22:27; 33:24-26; Ro 3:15

Slay.

Job 2:4; Ps 49:6-8; Pr 13:8; Mt 6:25; 16:26; Mr 8:36,37; Php 3:7-9

treasures.These "treasures hid in the field" were doubtless laid up in subterranean pits, similar to the {mattamores} in Barbary, in which, Dr. Shaw informs us, they deposit the grain when winnowed; two or three hundred of them being sometimes together, and the smallest holding four hundred bushels. The same mode of keeping corn prevails in Syria and the Holy Land.

the pit.This was probably a large reservoir for receiving rain water, which Asa had caused to be made in the midst of the city, in case of a siege.

because of Gedaliah. or, near Gedaliah. Heb. by the hand,or the side of Gedaliah. was it.

Jos 10:16-18; Jud 6:2; 1Sa 13:6; 14:11,22; 24:3; 2Sa 17:9

Heb 11:38

for fear.

1Ki 15:17-22; 2Ch 16:1-10

all the.

40:11,12

even.

22:30; 39:6; 43:5-7; 44:12-14

whom.

40:7

to the.

40:14; Ne 2:10,19; 4:7,8; 6:17,18; 13:4-8

Johanan.

2,3,7; 40:7,8,13-16; 42:1,3; 43:2-5

to fight.

Ge 14:14-16; 1Sa 30:1-8,18-20

the great.

2Sa 2:13

that when.They appear to have been weary of the tyranny of Ishmael, and glad of an opportunity to abandon him.

escaped.

1Sa 30:17; 1Ki 20:20; Job 21:30; Pr 28:17; Ec 8:11,12; Ac 28:4

eight men.

2; 2Ki 25:25

even.

10; 42:8; 43:4-7

Chimham.

2Sa 19:37,38

to go.As Johanan and the other princes had taken a decided part against Ishmael, they had no sufficient reason to fear that the Chaldeans would revenge on them the murder of Gedaliah; but perhaps Johanan was unwilling to be superseded in the command which he had rightly assumed, and so used his influence to induce the whole company to take refuge in Egypt; and their old attachment to the Egyptians rendered them more ready to concur in this ruinous measure.

42:14,19; 43:7; Isa 30:2,3

for they.

42:11,16; 43:2,3; 2Ki 25:25; Isa 30:16,17; 51:12,13; 57:11

Lu 12:4,5

because.

whom.

40:5

Jeremiah 42

1 Johanan desires Jeremiah to enquire of God, promising obedience to his will.

7 Jeremiah assures him of safety in Judea;

13 and destruction in Egypt.

19 He reproves their hypocrisy, in enquiring of the Lord that which they mean not to follow.

all the.

8; 40:8,13; 41:11,16; 43:4,5

Jezaniah.

2Ki 25:23; Eze 8:11; 11:1

Jaazaniah.

from.

8; 5:4,5; 6:13; 8:10; 44:12; Ac 8:10

came.

20; Isa 29:13; 48:1; 58:1,2; Eze 14:3,4; 20:1-3; 33:31; Mt 15:8

be accepted before thee. Heb. fall before thee.

36:7; 37:20; *marg:

and pray.

17:15,16; 21:2; 37:3; Ex 8:28; 9:28; 1Sa 7:8; 12:19,23; 1Ki 13:6

Isa 1:15; 37:4; Ac 8:24; Jas 5:16

left.

Le 26:22; De 4:27; 28:62; Isa 1:9; La 1:1; Eze 5:3,4; 12:16

Zec 13:8,9; Mt 24:22

6:16; De 5:26,29; 1Ki 8:36; Ezr 8:21; Ps 25:4,5; 27:11; 86:11

Ps 143:8-10; Pr 3:6; Isa 2:3; Mic 4:2; Mr 12:13,14

Jeremiah.The princes seem to have wholly neglected Jeremiah, till on this occasion they wanted his sanction to their purpose of going to Egypt. In order to induce him to favour them, they applied to him with one consent, in the most respectful and plausible manner: they used language to prepossess him with a favourable opinion of them, and to move his compassion; and, in words expressing great humility, they entreated his prayers in their behalf, and that he would enquire of the Lord what he would have them to do. The prophet readily acquiesced; and doubted not but that he should receive an answer from God, which he would unreservedly declare to them; and they called the Lord to witness that they would implicitly follow his directions.

I will pray.

Ex 8:29; 1Sa 12:23; Ro 10:1

whatsoever.

23:28; 1Ki 22:14-16; 2Ch 18:13-15; Eze 2:7

I will keep.

1Sa 3:17,18; Ps 40:10; Ac 20:20,27

The Lord be.

5:2; Ge 31:50; Ex 20:7; Jud 11:10; 1Sa 12:5; 20:42; Mic 1:2

Mal 2:14; 3:5; Ro 1:9; Re 1:5; 3:14

if we.

Ex 20:19; De 5:27-29

it be good.

Ro 7:7,13; 8:7

that it.

7:23; De 5:29,33; 6:2,3; Ps 81:13-16; 128:2; Isa 3:10 At this time he was waiting for a revelation from God in answer to the enquiries of the people; who probably thus delayed to make known his will, in order to shew them that Jeremiah did not speak of his own mind, but when and as he was directed. The delay was also suited to give time for consideration, and to retard their rash project; and, as it would render them impatient, it tended to detect their hypocrisy, and to shew more clearly their determined rebellion against God.

Ps 27:14; Isa 28:16; Hab 2:3

Johanan.

1; 40:8,13; 41:11-16; 43:2-5

unto.

2; 2Ki 19:4,6,20-37; 22:15-20

abide.

Ge 26:2,3; Ps 37:3

then.

24:6; 31:28; 33:7; Ps 69:35; 102:16; Eze 36:36; Ac 15:16

for I.

18:7-10; 26:19; Ex 32:14; De 32:36; Jud 2:18; 2Sa 24:16; Ps 106:45

Ho 11:8; Joe 2:13; Am 7:3,6; Jon 3:10; 4:2

afraid.

27:12,17; 41:18; 2Ki 25:26; Mt 10:28

for I.

1:19; 15:20; De 20:4; Jos 1:5,9; 2Ch 32:7,8; Ps 46:7,11; Isa 8:8-10

Isa 41:10; 43:2,5; Mt 28:20; Ac 18:10; Ro 8:31; 2Ti 4:17

Ne 1:11; Ps 106:45,46; Pr 16:7

10; 44:16; Ex 5:2

we will go.

41:17; 43:7; De 29:19; Isa 30:16; 31:1

nor hear.

4:19,21; Ex 16:3; 17:3; Nu 11:5; 16:13

If.If ye are determined to go into Egypt, the evils which ye dreaded by staying in your own land shall overtake and destroy you there; "and there shall ye die." God turned the policy of the wicked to their own destruction; for while they thought themselves safe in Egypt, there Nebuchadnezzar destroyed both them and the Egyptians.

17; 44:12-14; Ge 31:21; De 17:16; Da 11:17; Lu 9:51

that the sword.

13; 44:13,27; De 28:15,22,45; Pr 13:21; Eze 11:8; Am 9:1-4

Zec 1:6; Joh 11:48

follow close. Heb. cleave. there ye.

44:11,12,27

it be with all the men. Heb. all the men be. they shall.

22; 24:10; 44:14

none.

44:28

As mine.The people had witnessed the tremendous effects of the wrath of God, in the siege and destruction of Jerusalem; and had they not been past feeling, this denunciation must have made their ears tingle, and appalled their very souls.

6:11; 7:20; 39:1-9; 52:4-11; 2Ki 25:4-7; 2Ch 34:25; 36:16-19

La 2:4; 4:11; Eze 22:22; Da 9:11,27; Na 1:6; Re 14:10; 16:2-21

ye shall be.

18:16; 24:9; 25:9; 26:6; 29:18,22; 44:12; De 29:21,22; 1Ki 9:7-9

Isa 65:15; Zec 8:13

and ye shall see.

22:10-12,27

Go.God knew, that such was their miserable propensity to idolatry, that they would adopt the idolatrous worship of Egypt. Add to which, their going thither for protection was in effect refusing to submit to the king of Babylon, to whom God had decreed the rule of Judah and the neighbouring kingdoms.

De 17:16; Isa 30:1-7; 31:1-3; Eze 17:15

know.

38:21; Eze 3:21; Ac 20:26,27

admonished you. Heb. testified against you.

De 31:21; 2Ch 24:19; Ne 9:26,29,30; Ac 2:40; Eph 4:17; 1Th 4:6

For ye.God made known to the prophet their dissimulation; which he shunned not to declare to them.

3:10; 17:10; Ps 18:44; 65:3; Eze 14:3,4; 33:31; Mt 22:15-18,35

Ga 6:7

dissembled in your hearts. Heb. have used deceit againstyour souls.

Nu 16:38; Jas 1:22

Pray.

I have.

De 11:26,27; Eze 2:7; 3:17; Ac 20:20,26,27

but.

7:24-27; De 29:19; Zec 7:11,12

know.

17; 43:11; Eze 5:3,4; 6:11

in the.

Ho 9:6

to go and to sojourn. or, to go to sojourn.

Jeremiah 43

1 Johanan, discrediting Jeremiah's prophecy, carries him and the rest into Egypt.

8 Jeremiah prophesies by a type the conquest of Egypt by the Babylonians.

had made.

26:8; 42:22; 51:63

all the words.

1:7,17; 26:2; 42:3-5; Ex 24:3; 1Sa 8:10; Mt 28:20; Ac 5:20; 20:27

Azariah.

40:8; 43:1

Jezaniah. Johanan.

40:13-16; 41:16

all the.

13:15; Ex 5:2; 9:17; Ps 10:4,5; 12:3; 119:21; 123:4; Pr 6:17; 8:13

Pr 16:5,18,19; 30:9; Hab 2:4,5; Isa 9:9,10; Jas 4:6; 1Pe 5:5

Thou speakest.They had no other colour for their rebellion than flatly to deny that God had spoken what the prophet had declared, the constant method of hypocrites and infidels, who pretend that they are not satisfied of the truth of Divine revelation, when the true cause of their unbelief is, that the commands of God contradict their lusts and appetites.

5:12,13; 2Ch 36:13; Isa 7:9

Baruch.

6; 36:4,10,26; 45:1-3

to deliver.

38:4; Ps 109:4; Mt 5:11,12; Lu 6:22,23,26

obeyed.

42:5,6; 44:5; 2Ch 25:16; Ec 9:16

to dwell.

42:10-13; Ps 37:3

took.

40:11,12; 41:15,16; 1Sa 26:19

the king's.

41:10; 52:10

every.

39:10; 40:7

Jeremiah.

Ec 9:1,2; La 3:1; Joh 21:18

So.

2Ch 25:16

Tahpanhes.

2:16

Tahapanhes.

44:1; 46:14; Isa 30:4

Hanes.

Eze 30:18

Tehaphnehes.

Ps 139:7; 2Ti 2:9

great.

13:1-11; 18:2-12; 19:1-15; 51:63,64; 1Ki 11:29-31; Isa 20:1-4

Eze 4:1-17; 5:1-17; 12:3-16; Ho 12:10; Ac 21:11; Re 18:21

in the brick-kiln.

Ex 1:14; 2Sa 12:31; Na 3:14

I will send.

1:15; 25:6-26; 27:6-8; Eze 29:18-20; Da 2:21; 5:18,19

my servant.

25:9; 27:6; 46:27,28; Isa 44:28; 45:1; Mt 22:7

his royal.

1Ki 20:12,16; Ps 18:11; 27:5; 31:20

he shall smite.

25:19; 46:1-26; Isa 19:1-25; Eze 29:19,20; 30:1-32:32

such as are for death.

15:2; 44:13; Job 20:29; Eze 5:12; Zec 11:9

in the.

46:25; 48:7; 50:2; 51:44; Ex 12:12; 2Sa 5:21; Isa 19:1; 21:9; 46:1

Eze 30:13; Zep 2:11

array.

Es 6:9; Job 40:10

putteth.

Ps 109:18,19; 132:16,18; Isa 49:18; 52:1; 59:17; 61:5,10; Ro 13:12

Eph 4:24; 6:11; Col 3:12,14

images. Heb. statues, or standing images. Beth-shemesh.or, the house of the sun.

Isa 19:18; *marg:

and the.

Jeremiah 44

1 Jeremiah expresses the desolation of Judah for their idolatry.

11 He prophesies their destruction, who commit idolatry in Egypt.

15 The obstinacy of the Jews;

20 for which Jeremiah threatens them;

29 and for a sign prophesies the destruction of Egypt.

Cir. A.M. 3433. B.C. 571. The word.Dahler supposes this discourse to have been delivered in the seventeenth or eighteenth year after the taking of Jerusalem.

concerning.

42:15-18; 43:5-7

Migdol.

46:14; Ex 14:2; Eze 29:10; *Heb:

Tahpanhes.{Tahpanhes,} rendered [Taphne] and [Taphnai] by the LXX., is no doubt the [Daphnai] of Herodotus, a royal city of Lower Egypt, situated, according to the Itinerary of Antoninus, sixteen miles south from Pelusium, from which it was called Daphnæ Pelusicæ. Forster says that there is now a place situated in the vicinity of Pelusium called Safnas, which may be a vestige of the ancient name. It appears to have been the very first town in Egypt, in the road from Palestine, that afforded tolerable accommodation for the fugitives. It was at this place that, according to Jerome and several of the ancients, tradition says the faithful Jeremiah was stoned to death by these rebellious wretches, for whose welfare he had watched, prayed, and suffered every kind of indignity and hardship.

43:7; Eze 30:18

Tehaphnehes. Noph.

2:16; 46:14,19; Isa 19:13; Eze 30:16

Pathros.

Ge 10:14

Pathrusim.

Isa 11:11; Eze 29:14; 30:14

Ye have.

39:1-8; Ex 19:4; De 29:2; Jos 23:3; Zec 1:6

a desolation.

22; 4:7; 7:34; 9:11; 25:11; 34:22; Le 26:32,33,43; 2Ki 21:13

Isa 6:11; 24:12; 64:10,11; La 1:1,16; 5:18; Mic 3:12

of their.

2:17-19; 4:17,18; 5:19,29; 9:12-14; 11:17; 16:11,12; 19:3,4; 22:9

Ezr 9:6-11; Ne 9:33; La 1:8; 4:13; Eze 8:17,18; 9:9; 22:25-31

Da 9:5; Zec 7:12,13

gods.

De 13:6; 29:26; 32:17

I sent.

7:13,25; 25:3,4; 26:5; 29:19; 32:33; 35:17; 2Ch 36:15; Zec 7:7

this.

16:18; Eze 8:10; 16:36,47; 1Pe 4:3; Re 17:4,5

they.

7:24; 2Ch 36:16; Ps 81:11-13; Isa 48:4,18; Zec 7:11,12; Re 2:21,22

burn.

17-21; 19:13

my fury.

4:4; 7:20; 21:5,12; 36:7; 42:18; Le 26:28; Isa 51:17,20; Eze 5:13

Eze 6:12; 8:18; 20:33; 24:8,13; Da 9:12; Na 1:2

wasted.

2,3; Isa 6:11

against.

7:19; 25:7; 42:20; *marg:

Nu 16:38; Pr 1:18; 5:22; 8:36; 15:32; Eze 33:11; Hab 2:10

to cut.

8,11; 9:21; 51:22; Jos 6:21; Jud 21:11

child.

De 32:25; 1Sa 15:3; 22:19; La 2:11

Judah. Heb. the midst of Judah. to leave.

12,14,27,28

ye provoke.

25:6,7; De 32:16,17; 2Ki 17:15-17; Isa 3:8; 1Co 10:21,22; Heb 3:16

that ye might cut.

7; Eze 18:31,32

a curse.

12; 18:16; 24:9; 26:6; 29:18; 42:18; 1Ki 9:7,8; 2Ch 7:20; Isa 65:15

La 2:15,16

ye forgotten.

Jos 22:17-20; Ezr 9:7-15; Da 9:5-8

wickedness. Heb. wickedness, or punishments, etc. thewickedness of your.

15-19; 7:17,18

are not.

8:12; Ex 9:17; 10:3; 1Ki 21:29; 2Ch 12:6-12; 32:26; 33:12,19; 34:27

Da 5:20-22; Jas 4:6-10; 1Pe 5:6

humbled. Heb. contrite.

2Ki 22:19; Ps 34:18; 51:17; Isa 57:15; 66:2; Eze 9:4

neither.

10:7; 36:24; Ex 9:30; Pr 8:13; 14:16; 16:6; 28:14; Ec 8:12,13

Mal 4:2; Mt 27:54; Lu 23:40; Ro 11:20; Re 15:4

I will.

21:10; Le 17:10; 20:5,6; 26:17; Ps 34:16; Eze 14:7,8; 15:7; Am 9:4

I will take.

42:15-18,22

from the.

Ho 4:6

and they shall be.

8; 29:22; Isa 65:15

27,28; 11:22; 21:9; 24:10; 42:18; 43:11

So.It is evident from ver. 28, that some Jews were to escape the general destruction in Egypt, and to return into their own country, though but a few; and the same thing is implied in the latter clause of this verse. But the former part excludes from the number of those who should escape every individual of those who are properly termed "the remnant of Judah;" those who had willingly and rebelliously "set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to dwell there," on a presumption that they knew better than God how to consult their own restoration. The few, then, who were destined to escape, were to be such as had come into the land of Egypt with Johanan by compulsion, or had previously fled thither, or in some other less offensive manner, and chanced to be there when the storm burst upon them.

which are.

Isa 30:1-3

shall escape.

27; 42:17; Mt 23:33; Ro 2:3; Heb 2:3

which they.

22:26,27; 42:22

have a desire. Heb. lift up there soul. for none.

28; Isa 4:2; 10:20; Ro 9:27; 11:5,6

all the.

5:1-5; Ge 19:4; Ne 13:26; Pr 11:21; Isa 1:5; Mt 7:13; 2Pe 2:1,2

we.

16:15-17; 8:6,12; 18:18; 38:4; Ex 5:2; Job 15:25-27; 21:14,15

Ps 2:3; 73:8,9; Isa 3:9; Da 3:15; Lu 19:14,27

whatsoever.

25; Nu 30:2,12; De 23:23; Jud 11:36; Ps 12:4; Mr 6:26

queen of heaven. or, frame of heaven.As the Sun was worshipped, not only under the name of {baal shamayim,} "Lord of heaven," but also by that of {Molech,} or King; it is likely also that the Moon was adored as {melecheth hashshamayim,} "the Queen of heaven." So the Orphic hymn addressed to the Moon begins [Klythi thea BASILEIA,] Hear, goddess Queen. And Homer, in his Hymn to the Moon, addresses her, [Chaire, anassa, thea] All hail, Queen, goddess. In Epiphanius, we find some women of Arabia, towards the end of the fourth century, had set up another queen of heaven, the Virgin Mary, too well known since under that name and character, whom they likewise worshipped as a goddess, by holding stated assemblies every year to her honour, and by offering a cake of bread in her name; whence these heretics were called Collyridians, from the Greek [kollyris,] a cake.

7:18; 2Ki 17:16

as we.

19:13; 32:29-32; 2Ki 22:17; Ne 9:34; Da 9:6-8

our fathers.

Ne 9:34; Ps 106:6; Eze 20:8; Da 9:5,6,8; 1Pe 1:18

in the cities.

9,21

then.

Ex 16:3; Isa 48:5; Ho 2:5-9; Php 3:19

victuals. Heb. bread.

we have.

40:12; Nu 11:5,6; Job 21:14,15; Ps 73:9-15; Mal 3:13-15