PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Jeremiah
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 357,402 words · 646 reading sections
Jeremiah 34:5
Jeremiah 34:5 Ver. 5. [But] thou shall die in peace,.... Upon his bed, a natural death, and in good friendship with the king of Babylon; and, it may be, in peace with God; for before his death, some time in his captivity, he might be brought to true repentance for his sins: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the f…
577 wordsSECTION 422Jeremiah 34:6
Jeremiah 34:6 Ver. 6. Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words,.... The threatening, as well as the consolatory ones; he kept back no part of the message he was sent with, but faithfully delivered the whole: unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem; though he knew it would displease him, and bring himself into…
68 wordsSECTION 423Jeremiah 34:7
Jeremiah 34:7 Ver. 7. When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem,.... Had laid close siege to it, and still continued it: and against all the cities of Judah that were left; unconquered by him; when he invaded the land, he fought against, and took, and ravished all the cities that lay in his way; and it…
126 wordsSECTION 424Jeremiah 34:8
Jeremiah 34:8 Ver. 8. [This is] the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord,.... Here begins a new prophecy, which was delivered some time after the former; that was given out while the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem; this after he had quitted the siege for a while, and was gone to meet the king of Egypt, wh…
357 wordsSECTION 425Jeremiah 34:9
Jeremiah 34:9 Ver. 9. That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, [being] an Hebrew, or an Hebrewess, go free,.... This is the proclamation that was agreed to be made, that every manservant and maidservant, that serve six years an apprenticeship, should be freed from their servitude, accor…
370 wordsSECTION 426Jeremiah 34:10
Jeremiah 34:10 Ver. 10. Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant,.... The king had made with the people. Here the princes are mentioned, who were not before, but included in the people; they and the rest of the people are here meant, who having agreed to the covenant, heard th…
241 wordsSECTION 427Jeremiah 34:11
Jeremiah 34:11 Ver. 11. But afterwards they turned,.... From the law of God, and their own agreement, and returned to their former usage of their servants; they changed their minds and measures. This seems to be done, when the king of Babylon, hearing the king of Egypt was coming to break up the siege of Jerusalem, qu…
178 wordsSECTION 428Jeremiah 34:12
Jeremiah 34:12 Ver. 12. Therefore the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord,.... The word of Jehovah the Son, from Jehovah the Father, because of this transgression of the princes and people, and as soon as it was committed by them; for it is plain, from Jer 34:21, that it was before the Chaldean army return…
71 wordsSECTION 429Jeremiah 34:13
Jeremiah 34:13 Ver. 13. Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel,.... The covenant God of Israel, their Creator, Redeemer, and Benefactor: I made a covenant with your fathers; gave them a system of laws, among which was that of release of servants: in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt; that is…
224 wordsSECTION 430Jeremiah 34:14
Jeremiah 34:14 Ver. 14. At the end of seven years,.... Not when seven years were elapsed and fully completed; but within the compass of seven years, or as soon as the seventh year was began; for this term of seven years is the term of the seventh year coming in, and not going out, as appears from the law itself, Ex 21…
2,818 wordsSECTION 431Jeremiah 35:1
Jeremiah 35:1 INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 35 In this chapter the disobedience of the people of the Jews unto God is aggravated by the obedience of the Rechabites to their father; and the one are threatened with the judgments of God upon them, and the other have a promise of the divine blessing. The time of this prophecy…
350 wordsSECTION 432Jeremiah 35:2
Jeremiah 35:2 Ver. 2. Go unto the house of the Rechabites,.... Or "family" {c}; these are the same with the Kenites, who descended from Hobab or Jethro, Moses's father in law, Jud 1:16; these, as their ancestors, became proselytes to Israel, and always continued with them, though a distinct people from them; these her…
256 wordsSECTION 433Jeremiah 35:3
Jeremiah 35:3 Ver. 3. Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah,.... Who was, no doubt, the most famous and leading man in this family: and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites; the several branches of the family, especially the males; the women perhaps only exc…
82 wordsSECTION 434Jeremiah 35:4
Jeremiah 35:4 Ver. 4. And I brought them into the house of the Lord,.... Into the temple, as he was ordered; that is, he invited them thither, and they came along with him, having, no doubt, a respect for him as a prophet; and the rather, as it is highly probable he came in the name of the Lord to them: into the cham…
278 wordsSECTION 435Jeremiah 35:5
Jeremiah 35:5 Ver. 5. And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups,.... Which the prophet might have out of the chambers where these vessels were, and particularly from Maaseiah, if he was a keeper of them, as before observed. The number of men gathered together was probably ver…
150 wordsSECTION 436Jeremiah 35:6
Jeremiah 35:6 Ver. 6. But they said, we will drink no wine,.... Or "we do not drink wine" {e}; we are not used to it; we never do drink any; it is not lawful for us to do it; nor will we, let who will solicit us: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father; not their immediate father, but their progenitor; perhaps the s…
272 wordsSECTION 437Jeremiah 35:7
Jeremiah 35:7 Ver. 7. Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have [any],.... That is, they were not to build houses, sow seed, or plant vineyards, for themselves, for their own profit and advantage; nor possess either of these through purchase or gift: all this was enjoined them, partly be…
340 wordsSECTION 438Jeremiah 35:8
Jeremiah 35:8 Ver. 8. Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father,.... The above was the charge he gave them; and this, in every article of it, they had carefully and constantly kept, though it had been for the space of three hundred years, or thereabout; as follows: in all he hath charged u…
111 wordsSECTION 439Jeremiah 35:9
Jeremiah 35:9 Ver. 9. Nor build houses for us to dwell in,.... This explains that part of the charge more fully, which respects building of houses; which did not restrain them from building houses for others, if any of them were masters of that art; which is not very likely, since they were wholly brought up in the fi…
242 wordsSECTION 440Jeremiah 35:10
Jeremiah 35:10 Ver. 10. But we have dwelt in tents,.... Ever since, until very lately, when they had taken up their dwelling in Jerusalem; the reason of which is presently given: and have obeyed, and done according to all Jonadab our father commanded us; and should it be objected, that in one point they had not obeye…
89 wordsSECTION 441Jeremiah 35:11
Jeremiah 35:11 Ver. 11. But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land,.... Into the land of Judea to invade it, which was in the reign of Jehoiakim, in the fourth year of it, after he had served him three years, and rebelled against him; See Gill on "Jer 35:1"; that we said, come, and…
250 wordsSECTION 442Jeremiah 35:12
Jeremiah 35:12 Ver. 12. Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah,.... After the Rechabites had been tried whether they would break the command of their father, respecting drinking of wine; and steadfastly persisted in their resolution not to drink, urging the reason of it, and vindicating their conduct in another …
57 wordsSECTION 443Jeremiah 35:13
Jeremiah 35:13 Ver. 13. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,.... The Lord of armies in heaven and earth; the Creator of Israel; their benefactor, covenant God and Father and whom they professed to worship; God and not man; infinitely greater than Jonadab, whose precepts had been observed by his posterity: …
196 wordsSECTION 444Jeremiah 35:14
Jeremiah 35:14 Ver. 14. The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed,.... That article particularly, respecting drinking wine, has been carefully observed; which, though so agreeable to the nature of man, what cheers the heart of God and man, and was not prohibit…
252 wordsSECTION 445Jeremiah 35:15
Jeremiah 35:15 Ver. 15. I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets,.... One after another, ever since the times of Moses, to explain and enforce the laws given; a circumstance not to be observed in the case of the Rechabites; who yet, without such intimations, kept the charge their father gave them: risin…
259 wordsSECTION 446Jeremiah 35:16
Jeremiah 35:16 Ver. 16. Because the son of Jonadab the son of Rechab,.... Here we have the contrast between the Rechabites and the Israelites; the obedience of the one, and the disobedience of the other; the design of which is to aggravate and expose the sin of the Jews, since the former have performed the commandmen…
1,160 wordsSECTION 447Jeremiah 36:1
Jeremiah 36:1 INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 36 This chapter gives an account of an impious action of King Jehoiakim's burning the roll of Jeremiah's prophecies read unto him, and the consequence of it. The order to write this roll, the time when, the contents and use of it, are in Jer 36:1; the writing of it by Baruch, th…
282 wordsSECTION 448Jeremiah 36:2
Jeremiah 36:2 Ver. 2. Take thee a roll of a book,.... A roll of parchment, which being wrote on, and rolled up, was called a book; but books, in those times, did not consist of leaves cut and stitched together, and bound up, as our books are, but sheets of parchments being written upon, were glued together, and then r…
298 wordsSECTION 449Jeremiah 36:3
Jeremiah 36:3 Ver. 3. It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them,.... Not that there was any uncertainty in God as to the knowledge of future events, any more than a change in his purposes: he had purposed to bring evil upon them, which purpose would not be disannulled; an…
167 wordsSECTION 450Jeremiah 36:4
Jeremiah 36:4 Ver. 4. Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah,.... One of his disciples, and whom he had before made use of in the purchase of a field of his uncle's son, and to whom he gave the evidence of the purchase, Jer 32:12; he was probably a better penman than the prophet, or a quicker writer; however, h…
188 wordsSECTION 451Jeremiah 36:5
Jeremiah 36:5 Ver. 5. And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I [am] shut up,.... In prison, according to Jarchi; but this is not likely, for then there would have been no occasion for an order to take him, Jer 36:26. Grotius thinks he was obliged by the king's order to stay at home; possibly he might be restrained by …
162 wordsSECTION 452Jeremiah 36:6
Jeremiah 36:6 Ver. 6. Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth,.... The roll being finished, Baruch is ordered to read it, which was the end of writing it: and since the prophet could not go himself, he sends another in his room, to read the words of the Lord in the ears of the p…
196 wordsSECTION 453Jeremiah 36:7
Jeremiah 36:7 Ver. 7. It may be they will present their supplication before the Lord,.... Or, "perhaps their supplication will fall" {o}; they will present it in an humble manner before him; alluding to the prostration of their bodies, and dejection of their countenances, in prayer: and will return every man from his…
122 wordsSECTION 454Jeremiah 36:8
Jeremiah 36:8 Ver. 8. And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him,.... Here follows Baruch's obedience to the prophet's commands; which he considered no doubt as the will of the Lord, who directed the prophet to give the orders he did; and which he punctually observed, in …
126 wordsSECTION 455Jeremiah 36:9
Jeremiah 36:9 Ver. 9. And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month,.... This was a different time of reading the book from the former, enjoined by the prophet, and performed by Baruch, Jer 36:6; that was on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the fourth year…
364 wordsSECTION 456Jeremiah 36:10
Jeremiah 36:10 Ver. 10. Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord,.... The prophecies of Jeremiah he had taken from him in writing on a roll of parchment; these he read in the temple, in a part of it, after described: in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe; not a sc…
269 wordsSECTION 457Jeremiah 36:11
Jeremiah 36:11 Ver. 11. When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan,.... Who was present when Baruch read in the roll to the people in his father's chamber; but his father was absent, and was with the princes in the secretary's office at the same time, as Jer 36:12 shows: the son seems to be a more religious …
167 wordsSECTION 458Jeremiah 36:12
Jeremiah 36:12 Ver. 12. Then he went down into the king's house,.... The royal palace, which was not upon the mountain on which the temple stood, but lay lower, and therefore Micaiah is said to go down to it; with what design he went thither is not certain, whether out of ill will to Jeremiah and Baruch, or out of goo…
4,987 wordsSECTION 459Jeremiah 37:1
Jeremiah 37:1 INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 37 This chapter makes mention of the reign of Zedekiah, and what happened in it; of his message to Jeremiah, to pray for the kingdom; of the king of Babylonian's raising the siege of Jerusalem, on hearing the king of Egypt was coming to its relief; of the assurance the prophet g…
362 wordsSECTION 460Jeremiah 37:2
Jeremiah 37:2 Ver. 2. But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land,.... The king, his courtiers and subjects the royal family, nobility, and common people; they were all degenerate and corrupt. Jarchi observes, that Jehoiakim was wicked, and his people righteous; and that Zedekiah was righteous, and hi…
149 wordsSECTION 461Jeremiah 37:3
Jeremiah 37:3 Ver. 3. And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest,.... That is, Zephaniah the priest, as the accents shaw; though his father Maaseiah was doubtless a priest too; according to the Syriac version, both Jehucal, called Jucal, Jer 38:1; and Zephania…
185 wordsSECTION 462Jeremiah 37:4
Jeremiah 37:4 Ver. 4. Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people,.... Was at full liberty, and could go out of the city, and come in, when he pleased; or go into any part of it, and converse with the people, and prophesy to them; which he could not do in the latter part of Jehoiakim's reign, who sent persons a…
112 wordsSECTION 463Jeremiah 37:5
Jeremiah 37:5 Ver. 5. Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt,.... At the time the above message was sent to Jeremiah. Zedekiah, though he had took an oath of homage to the king of Babylon, rebelled against him, and entered into a league with the king of Egypt, to whom he sent for succours in his distress; and…
269 wordsSECTION 464Jeremiah 37:6
Jeremiah 37:6 Ver. 6. Then came the word of the Lord unto the Prophet Jeremiah,.... At the time when the messengers came to him from the king to pray for them; for Jer 37:4 are to be included in a parenthesis: saying; as follows: which is an answer to the messengers.…
53 wordsSECTION 465Jeremiah 37:7
Jeremiah 37:7 Ver. 7. Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel,.... Which are the usual titles and characters the Lord takes to himself, when he spake by the prophet; see Jer 34:2; thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me, to inquire of me; in an oracular way; for by this it seems that they were no…
288 wordsSECTION 466Jeremiah 37:8
Jeremiah 37:8 Ver. 8. And the Chaldeans shall come again,.... To Jerusalem, after they have defeated or drove back the Egyptian army: and fight against this city; with fresh rigour and resolution; being exasperated by the methods taken to oblige them to raise the siege: and take it, and burn it with fire; as they di…
60 wordsSECTION 467Jeremiah 37:9
Jeremiah 37:9 Ver. 9. Thus saith the Lord, deceive not yourselves,.... Or, "your souls"; with a false opinion, a vain persuasion and belief of the departure of the Chaldeans never to return; which they would have confirmed by the Lord; or, "lift not up your souls" {b}; with vain hopes of the above things: self or soul…
168 wordsSECTION 468Jeremiah 37:10
Jeremiah 37:10 Ver. 10. For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you,.... Supposing the whole army of the Chaldeans had been vanquished and slain by the Egyptians, the confederates of the Jews; or should they be slain by them in a second siege of them, excepting a few next mentioned…
210 wordsSECTION 469Jeremiah 37:11
Jeremiah 37:11 Ver. 11. And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans were broken up from Jerusalem,.... When the siege of the city was broken up and raised: or, when they "went up from Jerusalem" {c}; were gone from it; for fear of Pharaoh's army; or rather "because of Pharaoh's army" {d}. The word "fear"…
121 wordsSECTION 470Jeremiah 37:12
Jeremiah 37:12 Ver. 12. Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem,.... At least he attempted to do so, taking the opportunity of the siege of the city being broke up: what were his reasons for it are not certain; whether that he might not be put into prison, which he might fear for what he had just prophesied of conce…
344 wordsSECTION 471Jeremiah 37:13
Jeremiah 37:13 Ver. 13. And when he was in the gate of Benjamin,.... One of the gates of the city so called, either because it stood in the tribe of Benjamin, as part of Jerusalem did; or because it led to the land of Benjamin, whither the prophet was going: and just as he had got to that gate, and was going through i…
274 wordsSECTION 472Jeremiah 37:14
Jeremiah 37:14 Ver. 14. Then said Jeremiah, [it is] false,.... Or a "falsehood" {k}; as undoubtedly it was; I fall not away to the Chaldeans; for the Chaldean army was gone from the city; nor did Jeremiah like so well to be with an idolatrous people; for after the city was taken, when Nebuzaradan the captain of the g…
1,679 wordsSECTION 473Jeremiah 38:1
Jeremiah 38:1 INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 38 This chapter is taken up in giving an account of Jeremiah's being cast into a dungeon; his deliverance from it; and private conversation with King Zedekiah. The occasion of the prophet's being cast into a dungeon was his discourse to the people, which four of the princes repr…
428 wordsSECTION 474Jeremiah 38:2
Jeremiah 38:2 Ver. 2. Thus saith the Lord, he that remaineth in this city,.... Of Jerusalem; that does not go out of it, and surrender himself to the Chaldeans; but continues in it fighting against them: shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; that is, by one or other of these: but he that goet…
206 wordsSECTION 475Jeremiah 38:3
Jeremiah 38:3 Ver. 3. Thus saith the Lord, this city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army,.... When those found in it should be put to the sword, or carried captive: this the prophet declares with the greatest certainty; and what he had often affirmed for twenty years past, and now stands …
189 wordsSECTION 476Jeremiah 38:4
Jeremiah 38:4 Ver. 4. Therefore the princes said unto the king,.... The four princes mentioned in Jer 38:1, having heard what Jeremiah said to the people, laid the case before the king, and addressed him upon it in the following manner: we beseech thee, let this man be put to death; or, "let this man now be put to d…
286 wordsSECTION 477Jeremiah 38:5
Jeremiah 38:5 Ver. 5. Then Zedekiah the king said, behold, he [is] in your hand,.... In your power, to do with him as you please. This is either a grant of the king, allowing them to do as they thought fit; or a declaration of their power, supposing them to be the princes of the sanhedrim, as Grotius thinks, to judge …
223 wordsSECTION 478Jeremiah 38:6
Jeremiah 38:6 Ver. 6. Then took they Jeremiah,.... Having the king's leave, or at least no prohibition from him; they went with proper attendants to the court of the prison, and took the prophet from thence: and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of the prison; this wa…
308 wordsSECTION 479Jeremiah 38:7
Jeremiah 38:7 Ver. 7. Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian,.... The Targum renders it, "a servant of King Zedekiah;'' which Jarchi, and other writers, following, make Zedekiah to be the Ethiopian; so called, because as an Ethiopian differs in his skin, so Zedekiah differed in his righteousness, from the rest of his gen…
485 wordsSECTION 480Jeremiah 38:8
Jeremiah 38:8 Ver. 8. And Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house,.... As soon as he heard of the prophet's distress, he immediately went out from his apartments in the king's palace, where he performed his office, and his business chiefly lay, or where he dwelt, to the gate of Benjamin, where the king was; and …
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