4 The Prophet aſcertaineth that doom unto them, which Ver. 14, 15, 16.he had threatned them with in caſe they were refoived co go into Egypt; we muſt expect nothing but utmoſt dilap- pointments upon ations done 1n diſobedience to the revealed Willof God : Yon thinkto avoid Death by going thither for a little time to ſojourn. but you ſhall die there, and thac by thoſe very Deaths which by going thither you ſeek toayoid, +»
CHAP. XLIHI.
Johanan and the Commanders diſcredit Jeremiah's Prophecy,1, —— 3, and with the People, carry him and Baruch into Egypt, 4, —7, He Propheſyeth by a Type, the Conqueſt of Egypt by the Babylonians, 8, —— 13-
I ND it cameto paſs, th2t when Jeremiah had made an.end of ſpeaking toall the people all the words of the LORD their God 4, for which the
LORD their God had ſeat him to them ever all theſe words.
4 The H.brew word, which we tranſlate words, ſignifieth alſo things. The Prophet is very exact in letting us know that he had trom the Lord what hedelivered to them, he therefore twice re- peats it, the words of the Lord their Grd, and tor which the Lord had ſent bim to them, not that the Prophets always limited them. ſelves to thole 1{yllabical words they had revealed to them, but to the matter only of the Revelaion; which every Miniſter of the Goſpel is ſtil] bound to do, delivering the People only whar they have received from the Lord, as 1 Cor. 1:. 23. as to the mat- ter and ſubſtance of what they deliver, though they cloath it
FEREMIAH
6 Even men, and women, and. children, and the kings daughters g, and every perſon that Nebuzara- dan the captain of the Guard had left with Gedaliah the ſon of Ahikam, the ſon of Shanhan ; aud Jere- miah the Prophet, and Baruch the ſon of Neri2t.
g Of che King's D-ughters here mertioned, ſee Chan. 41. 10.
even to * Tahpanhes :.
h Egypt at this time, though it was humbled by tlie ins of Babylon, by an inroad he had made into ir, of which we read, 2 Kings 24.7. yet it was a diſtiact Kingdom, and being nezr to Canaan, the Fews oftea fied thither tor lanctuary, and borrowed aſſiſtance againſt their Enemies trom them. Ot this City we read little but in Holy Writ, 1Kjrgs 11. 19. weread of a Queen of Ezypt called Tahpenes, in honour to whom probably this City was builded, after whoſe name this City was called, of which the Scripture ſaith nothing, but 1nthis Prophecy, Chap. 2. 16. in this Chapter,and Chap.44. and 46. 14. it appears by Y-r 9 that it,was at this time the place where the King of Egypt male his Reſidence or at leaſt had a Palace, Thither thele Captains and the J-ws came, forcing Jeremiah and Baruch along with ther.
8 T Thenoame the word of the LOAD to Jere- miah in Tahpanhes, ſaying,
9 Take great ſtones in thy hand, and hid? then tn the clay in the brick-kila, which 7x ar the entry of Pharaoh's houſe, in Tahpanhes, in the ſight of the men of Judah &.
k God commandeth the Prophet to take theſe $S ones, and to place them in the Clay, 8c. for a fign of what we ſhail meer with expounded in the next Verſe ; it is piain from hence that the King of Egypt, called Pharaoh, either Refided, or at leaſt had a Royal Palace in Tuhpanhes, Ferem-4h is directed to fix thele Stones at the
with words and phraſes of their own.
2 Then ſpake Azariah the ſon of Hoſhaiah, and | Johanan the ton of Kareah, and all the proud men b, ſaying unto Jeremiah, Thou ſpeakeſt falſely : the LORD our God hath not ſent thee to ſay, Go not
into Egypt to ſojourn there c.
b Ot Fohanan we have before heard, but not of AF32riah, un- leſs under the name of Fexaniah, Chap. 42. 1. but that is incer- tain, Theſe Men are called proud Hen, eicher becaule they were the great Men, or becauſe their conceit of themſelves led them into this fatalerror. Pride is nothing elſe but a Man's Mind ſwellin- in an Opinion of himſelt, and always takes its rile from ſome higher ground the perton poſlefled of ic thinks he ſtands upon, anda very litele hillock will ſerve the turn, thoſe who have no- thing elle of pretence will make a filk Coat, or a piece of filver Lace ſerve the turn. One Mans Spirit ſwells upon account of his Delceat, another upon account of his Riches, a third upon the account of his Learning,Parts, andWit,a fourth upon the account of his or her Beauty ; thele Men are called proud Men, poſſibly upon account of their greatneſs, they were Caprains, and the Chiet of the Fews now left 3 but chiefly upon account of the good Opinion they had of their own Reaſon and Wit, by which they judged they knew better how to guide themſelves for their own lecurity, than Feremiah could teach them ; which Pride or good Opinion Men have of themlelves, is a great root of Dilobe- dierice, all Men fin either through paſſion or pride,or both, either co gratitie their ſenſitive Appetite, or their rational appetite, as it is in Man fince the Fall. c Becauſe it had been down right Atheiſm and a diſclaiming of God, to have faid, They knew better what to do, than God could tell them,they only tell the Prophet God had not ſent him. As in theſe times Hypocrites, whoſe Luſt will not allow them to do the will of God, think to ſecure themſelves by denying that to be the will of God, and finding out other ſen- ces to put upon Scripture than are according to truth.
3 But Baruch the fon of Neriah ſetteth thee on againſt us, for to deliver usinto the hand of the Chal- deans, that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon 4.
d Baruch was but a Clerk or Secretary to Feremiah, ſo not ve - ry probable to over-rule the Prophet to a talfifying of his truſt, and a betraying ot his Country-men into the hand of their Ene- mies ; but ſo fond are wicked Men of their Luſts, that they will fay any thing1n juſtihcation of them, rather thandeny them- ſelves in them, and become obedient to the will of God.
4 So Johanan the ſon of Kareah and all the cap- tains of the forces, and all the people obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Ju- dah e.
e Thats, they reſolved not to obey the Meſſage God had ſent ehem by Feremiah,
5 But Johanan the ſon of Kareah, and all the cap» talns of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah that were returned from all nations whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah #.