TSK - JEREMIAH 38

  1  Jeremiah, by a false suggestion, is put into the dungeon of
    Malchiah.
 7  Edeb-melech, by suit, gets him some enlargement.
14  Upon secret conference, he counsels the king by yielding
    to save his life.
24  By the king's instructions he conceals the conference from
    the princes.


VERSE 1
- Shephatiah.
   * Ezr 2:3 Ne 7:9
- Jucal.
   * Jer 37:4
- Jehucal.
- Pashur.
   * Jer 21:1-10
- Melchiah.
   * 1Ch 9:12
- Malchijah.
   * Ne 11:12
- heard.
   * Ac 4:1,2,6-10; 5:28


VERSE 2 
 - He.
   * :17-23; 21:8,9; 24:8; 27:13; 29:18; 34:17; 42:17,22; 44:13
   * Eze 5:12-17; 6:11; 7:15; 14:21 Mt 24:7,8 Re 6:4-8
- shall have.
   * Jer 21:9; 39:18; 45:5

VERSE 3
    * Jer 21:10; 32:3-5


VERSE 4 
 - the princes.
   * Jer 26:11,21-23; 36:12-16 2Ch 24:21 Eze 22:27 Mic 3:1-3 Zep 3:1-3
- thus.
   * Ex 5:4 1Ki 18:17,18; 21:20 Ezr 4:12 Ne 6:9 Am 7:10 Lu 23:2
   * Joh 11:46-50 Ac 16:20; 17:6; 24:5; 28:22
- welfare.  Heb. peace.
   * Jer 29:7


VERSE 5 
 - for.
   * 1Sa 15:24; 29:9 2Sa 3:39; 19:22 Pr 29:25 Joh 19:12-16


VERSE 6 
 - took.
   * Jer 37:21 Ps 109:5 Lu 3:19,20
- into.  See on ch.
   * Jer 37:16 La 3:55 Ac 16:24 2Co 4:8,9 Heb 10:36
- Hammelech.  or, the king.
   * Jer 36:26
- and they.
   * :11,12
- And in.
  This dungeon, which seems to have belonged to one of
  Zedekiah's sons, appears to have been a most dreadful place;
  the horrors of which were probably augmented by the cruelty
  of the jailor.  "The eastern people," observes Sir J.
  Chardin, "have not different prisons for the different
  classes of criminals; the judges do not trouble themselves
  about where the prisoners are confined, or how they are
  treated, considering it merely as a place of safety; and all
  that they require of the jailor is, that the prisoner be
  forthcoming when called for.  As to the rest, he is master to
  do as he pleases; to treat him well or ill; to put him in
  irons or not; to shut him up close, or hold him in easier
  restraint; to admit people to him, or to suffer nobody to see
  him.  If the jailor and his servants have large fees, let the
  person be the greatest rascal in the world, he shall be
  lodged in the jailor's own apartment, and the best part of
  it; and on the contrary, if those that have imprisoned a man
  give the jailor greater presents, or that he has a greater
  regard for them, he will treat the prisoner with the greatest
  inhumanity."  This adds a double energy to those passages
  which speak of "the sighing of the prisoner," and to
  Jeremiah's supplicating that he might not be remanded to the
  dungeon of Jonathan.  (ver. 26; ch. 20 37:20.)

   * :22 Ge 37:24 Ps 40:2; 69:2,14,15 La 3:52-55 Zec 9:11


VERSE 7 
 - Ebed-melech.
   * Jer 39:16-18
- Ethiopian.
   * Jer 13:23 Ps 68:31 Mt 8:11,12; 20:16 Lu 10:30-36; 13:29,30
   * Ac 8:27-39
- eunuchs.
   * Jer 29:2; 34:19 2Ki 24:15 *marg:
- the king.
   * Jer 37:13 De 21:19 Job 29:7-17 Am 5:10

VERSE 8


VERSE 9 
 - these.
   * :1-6 Es 7:4-6 Job 31:34 Pr 24:11,12; 31:8,9
- is like to die.  Heb. will die.  for there
   * Jer 37:21; 52:6


VERSE 10 
 - the king.
   * Es 5:2; 8:7 Ps 75:10 Pr 21:1
- with thee.  Heb. in thine hand.


VERSE 11 
 - let them.
   * :6


VERSE 12 
 - Put.
   * Ro 12:10,15 Eph 4:32


VERSE 13 
 - So.
   * :6
- Jeremiah.
   * :28; 37:21; 39:14-18 1Ki 22:27 Ac 23:35; 24:23-26; 28:16,30


VERSE 14 
 - sent.
   * Jer 21:1,2; 37:17
- third.  or, principal.
   * 1Ki 10:5 2Ki 16:18
- I will.
   * Jer 42:2-5,20 1Sa 3:17,18 1Ki 22:16 2Ch 18:15

VERSE 15
    * Lu 22:67,68


VERSE 16 
 - sware.
   * Jer 37:17 Joh 3:2
- that made.
   * Nu 16:22; 27:16 Ec 12:7 Isa 57:16 Zec 12:1 Heb 12:9
- of these.
   * :1-6; 34:20


VERSE 17 
 - the God of hosts.
   * Ps 80:7,14 Am 5:27
- the God of Israel.
   * 1Ch 17:24 Ezr 9:4
- If thou.
   * :2; 7:6,7; 21:8-10; 27:12,17; 39:3 Job 23:13


VERSE 18 
 - if thou.
   * 2Ki 24:12; 25:27-30
- then.
   * :3,23; 24:8-10; 32:3-5; 34:2,3,19-22; 39:3,5-7; 52:7-11
   * 2Ki 25:4-10 Eze 12:13; 17:20,21; 21:25-27


VERSE 19 
 - I.
   * :5 1Sa 15:24 Job 31:34 Pr 29:25 Isa 51:12,13; 57:11 Joh 12:42
   * Joh 19:12,13
- mock.
   * :22 Jud 9:54; 16:25 1Sa 31:4 Isa 45:9,10


VERSE 20 
 - Obey.
   * Jer 26:13 2Ch 20:20 Da 4:27 Ac 26:29 2Co 5:11,20; 6:1 Phm 8 1:8-10
   * Jas 1:22
- and thy.
   * Isa 55:3


VERSE 21 
 - if thou.
   * Jer 5:3 Ex 10:3,4; 16:28 Job 34:33 Pr 1:24-31 Isa 1:19,20
   * Heb 12:25
- this is.
   * Jer 15:19-21; 26:15 Nu 23:19,20; 24:13 Job 23:13 Eze 2:4,5,7
   * Eze 3:17-19 Ac 18:6; 20:26,27


VERSE 22 
 - all.
   * Jer 41:10; 43:6 La 5:11
- and those.
  Mr. Harmer would render, "and here ({hennah,} or reading
  {hinneh,} behold,) the women (wont to sing on public
  occasions) shall say," etc.; observing "that these bitter
  speeches much better suit the lips of women belonging to the
  conquering nation, singing before a captive prince, than of
  his own wives and concubines."  This he illustrates by the
  following extract from Della Valle:  When he was at Lar, in
  Persia, the king of Ormuz was brought thither in triumph; and
  "this poor unfortunate king entered Lar, with his people, in
  the morning, music playing, and girls and women singing and
  dancing before him, according to the custom of Persia, and
  the people flocking together with a prodigious concourse, and
  conducting him in a pompous and magnificent manner,
  particularly with colors displayed, like what the Messenians
  formerly did to Philopoemen, the general of the Athenians,
  their prisoner of war, according to the report of Justin."

- Thy friends.  Heb. The men of thy peace.
   * :4-6; 20:10 Ps 41:9 *marg:
- have set.
   * :19 La 1:2 Mic 7:5
- thy feet.
   * :6 Ps 69:2,14
- they are.
   * Jer 46:5,21 Isa 42:17 La 1:13


VERSE 23 
 - they shall.
   * :18; 39:6; 41:10; 52:8-13 2Ki 25:7 2Ch 36:20,21
- shalt cause, etc.  Heb. shalt burn, etc.
   * Jer 27:12,13 Eze 14:9; 43:3


VERSE 24 
 - Let no man know.
   * Jer 37:17 1Sa 16:2
  We are not bound to speak all we know to gratify our enemies,
  when no good end can be answered:  and a partial evasive
  answer, if not contrary to truth, is sufficient for an
  impertinent and malicious inquiry.  We have then need to be
  "wise as serpents, and harmless as doves" (Mt 10:16), Scott.

   * Mt 10:32,33 Lu 16:8 1Co 12:3


VERSE 25 
 - See on ver.
   * :4-6,27

VERSE 26
    * Jer 37:15,20; 42:2 Es 4:8


VERSE 27 
 - and he told.
   * 1Sa 10:15,16; 16:2-5 2Ki 6:19 Ac 23:6
- left off speaking with him.  Heb. were silent from him.

VERSE 28
    * :13; 15:20,21; 37:21; 39:14 Ps 23:4 2Ti 3:11; 4:17,18



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