Jer 37:14-16, 38:4-6, Eze 22:25-30, Hos 10:4, Amo 5:7, 12, Mic 2:1-2 | 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

Ezekiel 22:25-30

a conspiracy.

13:10-16; 1Ki 22:11-13,23; Jer 5:30,31; 6:13; La 2:14; 4:13

2Pe 2:1-3

like.

27-29; Isa 56:11; Ho 6:9; Mic 3:5-7; Re 13:11,15

ravening.That is, from the Saxon {reafian}, seizing and devouring it with eagerness and rapacity.

they have devoured.

13:19; Jer 2:30,34; Mt 23:14; Mr 12:40; Lu 20:47; Re 17:6; 18:13

priests.

1Sa 2:12-17,22; Jer 2:8,26,27; La 4:13; Mic 3:11,12; Zep 3:3,4

Mal 1:6-8; 2:1-3,8

violated. Heb. offered violence to. profaned.

Le 22:2-33; 1Sa 2:15,29

put no.

44:23; Le 10:1-3,10; 11:47; 20:25; Jer 15:19; Hag 2:11-13

hid their.

8; 20:12,13

I am profaned.

36:20; Ro 2:24

princes.

6; 19:3-6; 22:6; 45:9; Isa 1:23; Ho 7:1-7; Mic 3:2,3,9-11; 7:8

Zep 3:3; Jas 2:6,7

to get.

13; Mt 21:13; Jas 5:1-4

prophets.The prophets employed all their ingenuity to varnish over the crimes of the princes, (the antecedent to them,) to palliate their offences, and to conceal their faults, while they were like ravening wolves, and took bribes to shed innocent blood. By these means they shared the dishonest gains with the princes, or availed themselves of their authority to gratify their avarice or revenge.

25; 13:10-16; Isa 30:10; Jer 8:10,11

seeing.

13:22,23; 21:29; Jer 23:25-32; La 2:14; Zep 3:4

Thus saith the Lord.

13:6,7; Jer 23:21; 28:2,15; 29:8,9; 37:19

people.

7; 18:12; Isa 5:7; 10:2; 59:3-7; Jer 5:26-28,31; 6:13; Am 3:10

Mic 2:2; 3:3; Jas 5:4

oppression. or, deceit. oppressed.

7; 22:7; Ex 22:21; 23:9; Le 19:33; Ps 94:6; Mt 25:43

wrongfully. Heb. without right.

I sought.God, speaking after the manner of men, sought for some Moses, Phinehas, or Samuel, to stand in the gap on this occasion; but as he found none, its destruction was inevitable.

Isa 59:16; 63:5; Jer 5:1

make.

13:5; Ge 18:23-32; Ex 32:10-14; Ps 106:23; Jer 15:1