21 Thus faith the LORD of hoſts, the God of Iſrael, of Ahab the fon Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah ok {on of Maaſeiah, which prophetie 2 1ye uato you in my name, Behold [ will deliver tlien into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,and he ſhall fly chem before your eyes e.
Deut.36:t: © ,, Thar is, ſincerely 3 as Pſal. 119.2. _ |
* Den. 47, 14 And *I will be found of you, faith the LORD, Pfal. 32. 6,40d I will turn away your captivity,and * ] will ga- and 46. 2. ther you from all the nations, and from all the places Ifa. 55. 6. whither I have driven you, faith the LORD, and I
* Cha . 2 I - J 1 j L 22. "ag will bring you again 1nto the place whence | cauſed e Of thele two Perions we read no more in Holy Wric ; thir
— * you to be carriedaway CaptIve w. : , {they pretended to be prophets,that they abuſed the name of God, w This Verſe containeth no more than was ſaid before, only it pretending to reveal h's Wil], when as what they faid was nut
is repeated ina little different Phraſe, for the further confirmari- on of their Faith, and che promite 1s a little inlarged. God faith, he will be found of them ; that is, he will anſwer them. It is ex- preſſed inthis notion to correſpond with the term ſeeking, by which Prayer is exprefled, and let us know, that thoſe that will have God's fayour muſt nd it ; which implyeth a ſeeking and inquiry after it. The promile which beiore mentioned only their return fromBybylon,is inlarged,and made hereto extend to all pla- ces Whither they were driven, for though the Body of the People were carried to Babylon, yet it is more than probable, thatmany of them ſhifted for themſelves into other Countries, and were in Exile, but not in Captivity. Cyrus his Proclamation, 2 Chron. 35. 22, 23. extended to his whole Empire.
15 © Becauſe ye have ſaid, The LORD hath rai- ſed us up prophets in Babylon -, DO FEg
x The Prophet here turneth his Speech to ſome wicked Jews, that were in Babylon, or in Fudea, and more believed ſome talſe Prophets, who told them of a much quicker return, than Jeremy telling them the cruth from the Mouth of God.
16 Kzow, that thus ſaith the LORD, of the king that ſitteth upon the throne of David y, and of all the people that dwell in this city, ard of your bre- thren that-are not gone forth with you into capti- Vity. -. | pi, word know is, as ſome think, needleſly \upplied, for the following Particle might be as well tranſlated for, or becauſe, or
the Will of God, but a fa!ſhood, we learn out of th's Verte, and that they were both of them burnt by the Kizg of B.ubylon, we find in Yer. 22, Whatthe falſhoods they publithed were, is not expreſled, but it is moſt probable they were ſome of thoſe rac pretended that God had revealed to them, tht witl1in two yearss
return out of Bzbylor. God here tells thole that were of the Captivity, that thole two wretches ſhould themlelyes be flain by che King of Babylan.
22 * Andofthem ſhall be taken upa curſe by all * 5ee Gen? the captivity of Judah, which ae in Babylon, ſaying, 48. 20.
The LORD make thee like Zedekiah, andltke Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roaſted in the href.
f As falle Teachers are of che higheit ſort of Tranſgreffors, ſpeaking lyesin the Name and under pretence of the Auchortty of the God of Truth, ſo God in his providence ordinarily makes them the greateſt Examples of his Vengeance. God chreatnech to bring them to an end that ſhould curn inco a Proverb, that when Men had a mind to curſe others, wiſhing them «©!» grearoft evils, they ſhould pray to God to make them like 2555 and Z:dehtab, whom the King of Bbzlon burnt or roaſted in the tire, the word 09D, Kalam, tignifieth both, Lev. 2. 14. and roaſting fignitict!: only to burn by degrees, which probably was the tpecial punith- ment of theſe ewo falſe Prophets, for we learn from che jullancy of the three Children, Dan. 3. 19. that the coninming of Per {ons ſlowly in a fiery Furnace, was a Kind of puntzſhment to wle a+ mongſt the Chaldeans.
or a ſhort time, the Captives carried away with Fehoiakim ſhould
therefore, By the King he meaneth Zedekiah, whom he chuſeth * "TOY WY” ,* eo expreſs under the notion of him that fitteth upon the Throne] 23 Becauſe * they have committed villany in 1t-
of David, to take away the vain hopes which the Jews conceived | rael g, and have commutted adultery WICH thelr from the promiſes which God had made to David and to his neighbours wives þ, and have ſpoken lying words in ©?
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