Jer 32:3, 8, 33:1, 36:5, 37:21, 38:6, 39:13-15, Mat 5:12 | TSK | STEP

Jeremiah 32:3

Zedekiah.

2:30; 5:3; 2Ki 6:31,32; 2Ch 28:22

Wherefore.

26:8,9; 38:4; Ex 5:4; Am 7:13; Lu 20:2; Ac 6:12-14

Behold.

28,29; 21:4-7; 27:8; 34:2,3; 37:6-10; 38:8

Jeremiah 32:8

court.

2; 33:1

Anathoth.

7; 1Ki 2:26; 1Ch 6:60

Then I.

1Sa 9:16,17; 10:3-7; 1Ki 22:25; Zec 11:11; Joh 4:53; Ac 10:17-28

that this.That it was by His appointment that I was to make this purchase; the whole of which was designed as a symbolical act, to shew the people, that although Judah and Jerusalem should be desolated, and the inhabitants carried captive to Babylon, yet there should be a restoration, when lands and possessions should be again enjoyed by their legal owners, in the same manner as formerly. During the famine that prevailed in the city, Hanameel probably wanted money to purchase bread, and his field would not be thought of much value in such circumstances, which may account for the stipulated sum being so very small; for at 2s. 6d. the shekel, it would only amount to about 2£. 2s. 6d.

Jeremiah 33:1

1 God promises to the captivity a gracious return;

9 a joyful state;

12 a settled government;

15 Christ the branch of righteousness;

17 a continuance of kingdom and priesthood;

19 and a stability of a blessed seed.

A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. Moreover.This was the eleventh year of Zedekiah, Jeremiah being still shut up in prison; but he was now in the court of the prison, where the elders and the king's officers might consult him with the greater ease.

he.

32:2,3,8; 37:21; 38:28; 2Ti 2:9

Jeremiah 36:5

20:2; 32:2; 33:1; 37:15; 38:6,28; 40:4; 2Co 11:23; Eph 3:1; 6:20

2Ti 2:9; Heb 11:36

Jeremiah 37:21

into the.

32:2,8; 38:13,28

and that.

1Ki 17:4-6; Job 5:20; Ps 33:18,19; 34:9,10; 37:3,19; Pr 16:7; 21:1

Isa 33:16; Mt 6:33

until.

38:9; 52:6; De 28:52-57; 2Ki 25:3; La 2:11,12,19,20; 4:4,5,9,10

La 5:10

Thus.

38:13,28; 39:14,15; Ac 12:5; 24:27; 28:16,30; Eph 4:1; 6:20; 2Ti 1:8

2Ti 2:9

Jeremiah 38:6

took.

37:21; Ps 109:5; Lu 3:19,20

into.

37:16; La 3:55; Ac 16:24; 2Co 4:8,9; Heb 10:36

Hammelech. or, the king.

36:26

and they.

11,12

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