Jeremiah 40:23

Jeremiah 40:23

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John Calvin — Commentary on Jeremiah Vol 2 (10-19)
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See Jeremiah 9:7; Jeremiah 10:18; Jeremiah 16:16. This is not the case here. Besides, when a verb, and the same verb as a gerund are put together, which is no uncommon thing, the gerund in general, if not always, precedes the verb; not so here, if we take nsyty, as most do, to ...
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See Jeremiah 9:7; Jeremiah 10:18; Jeremiah 16:16. This is not the case here. Besides, when a verb, and the same verb as a gerund are put together, which is no uncommon thing, the gerund in general, if not always, precedes the verb; not so here, if we take nsyty, as most do, to be from ns'. These anomalies are evident in the text as it now stands. Suppose the misplacing of one word, and put ns' after hnny, and the sentence will be perfectly grammatical, and the version would be as follows, — Therefore, behold, I will carry off and let you go; Yea, I will dismiss you and the city, Which I gave to you and to your fathers, From my presence. Alluding to burden, he says that he would carry them off as one carries a burden, and then let them go, or throw them down: the verb nsh means to loosen, to disengage one's self from a thing, to remit, to let go. Then nms has a similar meaning, to set loose, to relax, to set free, to dismiss, to cast off; which intimates that he would not suffer them to continue as it were in his presence. It is the same verb as in Jeremiah 23:33 — Ed Jeremiah 23:40 40. And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten. 40.
John Calvin — Commentary on Jeremiah Vol 2 (10-19)
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18 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah the king of Judea, They shall not bewail him, — "Ah, my brother! Ah, sister!" They shall not bewail him, — "Ah, Lord! Ah, his glory!" 19 With the burial of an ass shall he be buried, Drawn out and cast forth Beyon...
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18 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah the king of Judea, They shall not bewail him, — "Ah, my brother! Ah, sister!" They shall not bewail him, — "Ah, Lord! Ah, his glory!" 19 With the burial of an ass shall he be buried, Drawn out and cast forth Beyond the gates of Jerusalem. 20 Ascend into Lebanon and cry, And on Bashan lift up thy voice, And cry all around, For destroyed are all thy lovers. 21 I spake to thee in thy tranquillity, Thou saidst, "I will not hear:" It has been thy manner from thy youth That thou didst not hear my voice. 22 Thy pastors shall the wind consume, And thy lovers, into exile shall they go: Surely ashamed shalt thou then be, And blush for all thy wickedness. 23 Thou hast set thy seat on Lebanon, Thou hast made thy nest among the cedars: How gracious wilt thou be When come on thee shall sorrows, The pain as of one in travail! 24 Live do I, saith Jehovah; Were Coniah the son of Jehoiakim the king of Judah A sealing ring on my right hand, I would thence pluck thee off: 25 And I will deliver thee Into the hand of those who seek thy life, And into the hand of those whose face thou dreadest, Even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar The king of Babylon, And into the hand of the Chaldeans: 26 And I will cast thee and thy mother who bare thee Into a foreign land where ye were not born, And there shall ye die; 27 And into the land they set their mind to return, Thither they shall not return. 28 Is this man Coniah a despised and broken statue?
John Calvin — Commentary on Jeremiah Vol 3 (20-29)
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The first thing then is, that the Prophet was bidden to write another roll, after the King Jehoiakim vented his rage against the roll read before him; and hence he carefully repeats the words, Take to thee another roll, and write in it the same words which were in the first book;...
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The first thing then is, that the Prophet was bidden to write another roll, after the King Jehoiakim vented his rage against the roll read before him; and hence he carefully repeats the words, Take to thee another roll, and write in it the same words which were in the first book; as though he had said, "Let not a syllable be omitted, but let that which I once proclaimed by thy mouth, remain unchanged; and let thus all the ungodly know that thou hast faithfully delivered what thou didst receive from my mouth." It follows -- Jeremiah 36:29-30 29. And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? 29. Et ad Joiakim regem Jehudah dices, Sic dicit Jehova, Tu combussisti librum hunc, dicendo, Quare scripsisti in ipso, dicendo, Veniendo veniet rex Babel (Babylonis) et perdet ex ea hominem et animal (vel, bestiam?) 30. Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah, He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. 30. Propterea sic dixit Jehova ad Joiakim (vel, de Joiakim) regent Jehudah, Non er
John Gill — John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
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See Gill on "2 Kings 25:18" 2 Kings 25:21 Ver. 21. See Gill on "2 Kings 25:18" 2 Kings 25:22 Ver. 22-24. And as for the people that remained,.... That were left in the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen; over these the king of Babylon made Gedaliah governor, to whom the capta...
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See Gill on "2 Kings 25:18" 2 Kings 25:21 Ver. 21. See Gill on "2 Kings 25:18" 2 Kings 25:22 Ver. 22-24. And as for the people that remained,.... That were left in the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen; over these the king of Babylon made Gedaliah governor, to whom the captains, with their scattered troops, came, and submitted for a time; of whom, See Gill on "Jeremiah 40:7", See Gill on "Jeremiah 40:8", See Gill on "Jeremiah 40:9". 2 Kings 25:23
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — 2 Kings (BibleHub)
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And as for the people that remained,.... That were left in the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen; over these the king of Babylon made Gedaliah governor, to whom the captains, with their scattered troops, came, and submitted for a time; of whom; see Gill on Jeremiah 40:7 ; se...
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And as for the people that remained,.... That were left in the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen; over these the king of Babylon made Gedaliah governor, to whom the captains, with their scattered troops, came, and submitted for a time; of whom; see Gill on Jeremiah 40:7 ; see Gill on Jeremiah 40:8 ; see Gill on Jeremiah 40:9 .
Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament — Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament — 2 Kings (BibleHub)
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Instead of "Johanan the son of Kareah," we have in Jeremiah 40:8 "Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah;" but it is uncertain whether ויונתן has crept into the text of Jeremiah from the previous יהוחנן merely through a mistake, and this mistake has brought with it the alteratio...
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Instead of "Johanan the son of Kareah," we have in Jeremiah 40:8 "Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah;" but it is uncertain whether ויונתן has crept into the text of Jeremiah from the previous יהוחנן merely through a mistake, and this mistake has brought with it the alteration of בּן into בּני (Ewald), or whether ויונתן has dropped out of our text through an oversight, and this omission has occasioned the alteration of בני into בן (Thenius, Graf, etc.). The former supposition is favoured by the circumstance that in Jeremiah 40:13; Jeremiah 41:11, Jeremiah 41:16, Johanan the son of Kareah alone is mentioned. In Jeremiah 40:8 עופי וּבני (Chethb עיפי) stands before הנּטפתי, according to which it was not Seraiah who sprang from Netophah, but Ophai whose sons were military commanders. He was called Netophathite because he sprang from Netopha in the neighbourhood of Bethlehem (Nehemiah 7:26; Ezra 2:22), the identity of which with Beit Nettif is by no means probable (see at 2 Samuel 23:28). The name יאזביהוּ is written יזניהוּ in Jeremiah; he was the son of the Maachathite, i.e., his father sprang from the Syrian district of Maacah in the neighbourhood of the Hermon (see at Deuteronomy 3:14).
Adam Clarke — Bible Commentary
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1. That the evangelists who mention Bartholomew say nothing of Nathanael; and that St. John, who speaks of Nathanael, says nothing of Bartholomew. 2. No notice is taken any where of Bartholomew's vocation, unless his and that of Nathanael mentioned here be the same. 3. The name...
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1. That the evangelists who mention Bartholomew say nothing of Nathanael; and that St. John, who speaks of Nathanael, says nothing of Bartholomew. 2. No notice is taken any where of Bartholomew's vocation, unless his and that of Nathanael mentioned here be the same. 3. The name of Bartholomew is not a proper name; it signifies the son of Ptolomy; and Nathanael might have been his own name. 4. St. John seems to rank Nathanael with the apostles, when he says that Peter and Thomas, the two sons of Zebedee, Nathanael, and two other disciples, being gone a fishing, Jesus showed himself to them, John 21:2-4. Moses in the law - See Genesis 3:16; Genesis 22:18; Genesis 49:10; Deu 18:18. And the prophets - See Isaiah 4:2; Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 9:5; Isaiah 40:10; Isaiah 53:1, etc.; Jeremiah 23:5; Jeremiah 33:14, Jeremiah 33:15; Ezekiel 34:23; Ezekiel 37:24; Daniel 9:24; Micah 5:2; Zac 6:12; Zac 9:9; Zac 12:10. JOHN 1: 46 Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” 1. Christ may be understood by this saying to mean, that a clear and abundant revelation of God's will should be now made unto men; that heaven itself should be laid as it were open, and all the mysteries which had been shut up and hidden in it from eternity, relative to the salvation and glorification of man; should be now fully revealed.
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges — Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges — Ezra (BibleHub)
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12 . the Jews ] We have here practically the first application of this name to the new community at Jerusalem. It had been used of the Southern Kingdom ( 2 Kings 16:6 ; 2 Kings 25:25 ; 2 Chronicles 32:18 ) and of its exiles ( Jeremiah 32:12 ; Jeremiah 34:9 ; Jeremiah 38:19 ; Jere...
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12 . the Jews ] We have here practically the first application of this name to the new community at Jerusalem. It had been used of the Southern Kingdom ( 2 Kings 16:6 ; 2 Kings 25:25 ; 2 Chronicles 32:18 ) and of its exiles ( Jeremiah 32:12 ; Jeremiah 34:9 ; Jeremiah 38:19 ; Jeremiah 40:11-12 ; Jeremiah 40:15 ; Jeremiah 41:3 ; Jeremiah 44:1 ; Jeremiah 52:28 ; Jeremiah 52:30 ; Daniel 3:8 ; Daniel 3:12 ). As the return from the Captivity almost exclusively affected the exiles of the Southern Kingdom, the name was naturally applied to the new dwellers in Jerusalem and the neighbourhood, and was quickly adopted as the designation of all members of the race; cf. Zechariah 8:23 ; Ezra 4:23 ; Ezra 5:1 ; Ezra 5:5 ; Ezra 6:7-8 ; Ezra 6:14 ; ten times in Nehemiah, fifty-one times in Esther. The History of Israel had become the History of the Jews. which came up from thee to us are come ] R.V. which came up from thee are come to us, generally expressed; i.e. from exile on the banks of the Euphrates to dwell in Judæa and Jerusalem. The introductory statement of the subject. building ] R.V. they are building. A separate clause, containing an epitome of the charge against the Jews. ‘The rebellious and the bad city’, cf. Ezra 4:15 .
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges — Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges — 2 Kings (BibleHub)
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The Chronicler however having given us the date at which Josiah first manifested his disposition to destroy the idols out of the land, includes in the same sentences all that was done by the king in the after part of his reign. We cannot but think that the chief impulse toward th...
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The Chronicler however having given us the date at which Josiah first manifested his disposition to destroy the idols out of the land, includes in the same sentences all that was done by the king in the after part of his reign. We cannot but think that the chief impulse toward the utter destruction of the idols was given, as the writer of Kings tells us ( 2 Kings 23:3 ) when the king made a covenant to walk after the Lord, according to the words of the book of the Law, and all the people stood to the covenant. Then began the extermination of all remaining traces of idolatry, which the king himself had begun to remove in some degree in his twelfth year. The LXX. adds to the date given in this verse, ἐν τῷ μηνὶ τῷ ὀγδόῳ , ‘in the eighth month’, but with no warrant from the original. the king sent Shaphan … the scribe ] The event on which all else in Josiah’s reformation seems to hinge is the restoration of the temple. There it was that the book of the Law was discovered which stirred both king and people to attempt a thorough reformation. Therefore the writer of Kings passes to that undertaking without pausing over minor matters which preceded it. Shaphan … the scribe ] Shaphan whose father and grandfather are here mentioned, was the father of Ahikam mentioned below (verse 12) and of Gemariah ( Jeremiah 36:10-12 ), and the grandfather of Gedaliah ( Jeremiah 39:14 ; Jeremiah 40:5 ; Jeremiah 40:9 ; Jeremiah 40:11 , &c.).
John Bunyan — The Work of Jesus Christ as an Advocate
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Secondly, Go4's Intcrcfi in his People, a-nd p eth that God would remember chat : T/v i rebuke thee, O Satan ; the l^rd that bath ch Jcrufalem, rebuki thee. True, the Church, Saints are difpicable iii the World, wherefore I do think to tread them down: The Saints alfo weak in Gra...
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Secondly, Go4's Intcrcfi in his People, a-nd p eth that God would remember chat : T/v i rebuke thee, O Satan ; the l^rd that bath ch Jcrufalem, rebuki thee. True, the Church, Saints are difpicable iii the World, wherefore I do think to tread them down: The Saints alfo weak in Grace, but have Corruptions are ftrong, and therefore Satan, the God of World, doth think to tread them down ; but Saints have a God, the. Living, the Eternal C and therefore (hall net be trodden down, yea,' /hail he holden up, for God is able to muk? t Jiand, Rom. 14. 4. It was Haman\ Mifhap to be engag'd aga the duecn, and the Kindred of the Queen, 't that made him be could not profper, that broi him rp Contempt and the Gallows ; had be foi: to ruin another People, probably he might h brought bis Deftgn to a defir'd Conclufion, his compajjing the Death of the Queen fpoiPd 5^rfln aJfo, when he fighteth againft the Chu: >tf l^ litre fo come to ihc yio\ft^ fot Goi. ^ ofjcfus Chrift. 5 i

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