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Gill, John, 1697-1771 • SECTION 469

Jeremiah 37:11

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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" is not in the text; nor did they leave Jerusalem for fear of his army, but to meet it, and give it battle, as they did; however, by this means there was a freer egress and regress from and to the city.

{c} twlexb "cum recessisset", Cocceius; "ascendisset", Schmidt. {d} lyx ynpm "propter exercitum", Cocceius, Schmidt; "propter copias", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

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