Jeremiah 38
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Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,
Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.
Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.
Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.

the princes.

Jeremiah 26:11,21-23 Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes and to all …

Jeremiah 36:12-16 Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: …

2 Chronicles 24:21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the …

Ezekiel 22:27 Her princes in the middle thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, …

Micah 3:1-3 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and you princes of …

Zephaniah 3:1-3 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!…

thus.

Exodus 5:4 And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, …

1 Kings 18:17,18 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, …

1 Kings 21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, …

Ezra 4:12 Be it known to the king, that the Jews which came up from you to …

Nehemiah 6:9 For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened …

Amos 7:10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying…

Luke 23:2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting …

John 11:46-50 But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them …

Acts 16:20 And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, …

Acts 17:6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brothers …

Acts 24:5 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition …

Acts 28:22 But we desire to hear of you what you think: for as concerning this …

welfare. Heb. peace.

Jeremiah 29:7 And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried …

Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

took.

Jeremiah 37:21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah …

Psalm 109:5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Luke 3:19,20 But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother …

into.

Jeremiah 37:16 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, …

Lamentations 3:55 I called on your name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

Acts 16:24 Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, …

2 Corinthians 4:8,9 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, …

Hebrews 10:36 For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will …

Hammelech. or, the king.

Jeremiah 36:26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah …

and they.

Jeremiah 38:11,12 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the …

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 ill or well; to put him in irons or not; to shut him in 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.

Jeremiah 38:26 Then you shall say to them, I presented my supplication before the …

Jeremiah 37:20 Therefore hear now, I pray you, O my lord the king: let my supplication, …

Jeremiah 38:22 And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house …

Genesis 37:24 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, …

Psalm 40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, …

Psalm 69:2,14,15 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep …

Lamentations 3:52-55 My enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause…

Zechariah 9:11 As for you also, by the blood of your covenant I have sent forth …

Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying,

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My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.
Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?
So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.
Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:
But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.
And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath shewed me:

if thou.

Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, are not your eyes on the truth? you have stricken them, but …

Exodus 10:3,4 And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus said …

Exodus 16:28 And the LORD said to Moses, How long refuse you to keep my commandments …

Job 34:33 Should it be according to your mind? he will recompense it, whether …

Proverbs 1:24-31 Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, …

Isaiah 1:19,20 If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land…

Hebrews 12:25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not …

this is.

Jeremiah 15:19-21 Therefore thus said the LORD, If you return, then will I bring you …

Jeremiah 26:15 But know you for certain, that if you put me to death, you shall …

Numbers 23:19,20 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that …

Numbers 24:13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot …

Job 23:13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, …

Ezekiel 2:1-10 And he said to me, Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak to you…

Ezekiel 4:1-17 You also, son of man, take you a tile, and lay it before you, and …

Ezekiel 5:1-17 And you, son of man, take you a sharp knife, take you a barber's …

Ezekiel 7:1-27 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying…

Ezekiel 3:17-19 Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore …

Acts 18:6 And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, …

Acts 20:26,27 Why I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men…

And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.

all.

Jeremiah 43:6 Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters…

Lamentations 5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

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 colours 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.

Jeremiah 38:4-6 Therefore the princes said to the king, We beseech you, let this …

Jeremiah 20:10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say …

Psalm 41:9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of …

have set.

Jeremiah 38:19 And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that …

Lamentations 1:2 She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among …

Micah 7:5 Trust you not in a friend, put you not confidence in a guide: keep …

thy feet.

Jeremiah 38:6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah …

Psalm 69:2,14 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep …

they are.

Jeremiah 46:5,21 Why have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty …

Isaiah 42:17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust …

Lamentations 1:13 From above has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against …

So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.

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But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:
Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.
Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.
So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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