26 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt, Behold 1 have ſworn by my great. name, ſaith the LORD g, that my name ſhall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah, i all the land of Egypt, ſaying, the LORD God liveth h.
g Seing you are ſo fixed and peremptory,So0d is as reſolved as you are, and as you think you muſt be Rej:gious to your wicked Vows, ſo be affured God will be as Religious to his Oath. Becaute he can ſwear by nogreater, he hath ſworn by himteif, Heb. 6. 1 2,
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the ]-57; that arcin Egypt, to ſwear The Lord God [iveth, ( for ic him lament his Condition 1n ſuch hke Exprefſions, of which the
ſhould fem, that the Jews yer retained ſomething of the Religion
of their Courtry, and ſwear by the Name of the living God, ac-! cording to tlie Frecept, Det. 6.13. and 10. 26.) God threarnerh
there 1.0y!-i be none of them lefr ative to do it; He would nor
have his holy Name polluted by thoſe Mouths that had been uſed
ro blels Idols.
27 Bchold, * I will watch over them for evil, and ,
not for good 7, and all the Men of Judah that are 10!
the land of Egypt, ſhall be conſumed by the ſword, |
and by the famine, until there hea end of them +. ; God here either ſers our himſelf as one who would be 1nduſtr1-
cus and f1cirous to bring cvil upon them, as Men who areſoin| | t2iCi Opportaniries to do 1t ; Or elſe hederides their |1mpoflivle ro be derermined with any certainty ; they could not : {be Honour, or Riches; the time of Jehojachim's Reign was no
. * . | 21.28, butasit is in the former part of chat Verſe, ro,
any bufſine!:, 6 vain confidence as to his protection of rhem, and care tor them ( faich God ) T will watch over chem, bur not to $3i/4 and to plant, as Chap. | $ tluck 1p, and to throw down, and fo deſtroy, and to afftie, & For ſo it follows, They (hall b2 conſumed by the ſword and by the fa- ne. |
28 Yet * a ſmall number that eſcape the ſword» ſhall return our of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah /; and all the remnant of Judah that are gone into the land of Egypt to ſojourn there, ſhall know
Propher had heard, provably by Revelation from God.
4 Thus ſhalt thon ſay unto him, The LORD faith thus, Behold; tar which I have built wull I
break down, and that which I have planted I will
pluck up, even this whole Land ;
5 And ſeekeſt thou great things tor thy ſelf? ſeek them not e: for behold, I will bring evil upon all fleſh, ſfaich the LORD 7 : but thy life will I give
rime for any Pioas Rational Man, to expeR any thing of char na- ture: He might expe3 ro have heen a Propher, as Eliha was, who firſt was bur a Servant to Elijah, Or at leaft he might expect reſt and prote&ion, when others mer wich diſturbance, bur it may be the meaning is no more than, Doſt rhou expe& whar none meereth with, or 1s hke ro meet with who feareth God ? Never chink of it, f Tam bringing Calamiries, and Miſery upon the whole Nation wheretn thou liveft. g [ will preſerve thy Life, thar
15 all chou arr ro expeR, and rhou {halt hve to ſee-the time, thar thou wilt judge that a grear Boory, thar thon ſhalt have lent thee, whicherfoever the Wind of my Providence ſhall happen to dAve
whoſe word ſhall ſtand, mine or theirs 7. ! This juftifyerh the reſtrained interpretation of non? of 152 12% , nant, Per 14. for here it is plainly ſaid, rhar ſore ſhould eſcape and reiurn. > per
that it would appear wherher God's Word or theirs ſhould ftand, avd have ir's accompliſhment ;they promiſing themſelyes ſecurity, God threatnitg them wich utcer raine and deſtruction.
29 ® Aud this ſþall be a fign unto yon, faith the LORD, th3ti will puaiſh you in this place, that ye may know that my Words ſhall {urely {tand againit you tor evil. = T1
: Signs are uſually antecedent to the thing tiprified, but the word 1s taken in a larger notion 1n this place, for that which ſhould arrend rhe thing ſignified by it, as Exod. 3. 12, befides though their deſtruction, and the deftruction of Pharaoh Hophra, were things immediately following one another, yer the larter was 1n order before the other,
30 Thus ſaith the LORD, Behold, I will give Phiraoh-hophra King of Egypt into the hand of his Enemies, and into the hand of them that feck his life, as I gave Zedekiah King of Judah into the hand of Nebnchadne77zar King of Babylon his Enemy that ſonght his Lite p.
0 Pharaoh was a Name common to all the Egyptian Kings, as my be learned from Ger, 12, 15. and 41 1. Erod 1.8, 11. but they had befides thar Name another peculiar to them. Whether this Hovbra was Vaphyes or Apries, 15 not much marerial, nor 15 there any certainry when this Prophecy was fulfilled. Wherhe; Pharaoh Hupira were ( as Her0dotrs faich ) flain by Amaſis, one of his Subjcds who rebelled apainſt him aud flew him ( as the aforemenioned Anthor tells us) or Nebuchadnezzar who Joſephus fairh, came abcur ve Years after he had raken Jer:ſalem, and 0- ver-ran Eyypt, and flew this Pharach Hophra, whoſe overchrow was a Certain fp of the J:ws Defiruftion, 1 being not like thar the Ring of 7.:5;/9n ſhould ſpare theſe Jews who had iled ro this King of Egvpt for ſhelter; confideting aifo rhar the Jews had ſlain Gedaliah his Lepury Governour in Judea, p How Godl delivered Z:dibiz aro the hand of the King of Babylon, we read Chap. 9 Hcor2 now £nds tle Scory of theſe }:ws thar had fled into Egypt.
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:rn#t9 and comfortity Baruch, 1, w— 5$. ; *F* HE word that Jeremiah the Prophet ſpake un- % To Barich the ion of Neriah, * when he had Vriiien theſe words 12 a book at the mouth of Jere- mah 7, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the ſon of Toliah }King of Judah, ſaying 6,
a This Chaprer onghrt to have been annexed to the 35 Chap. or immesizicly to have followed it, for the writing of Jeremiah's Propnecics we read of there, birt was 18 Years before this rime that the Prophet rhus {pake to Baruch upon the wriring of rhoſe Prophecies, which, as we read there broughr borh Jeremizh and Bvich into a great deal of danger, which probably gave Baruch the occaſion of tie Complaine we ſhall read of, Yey. 3.
2 Thus faith the LORD, the God of Iſrael unto thee, O Baruchc.