Jeremiah 8:34

1 The word which came to Jeremiah respecting the drought: 2 Mourned has Judah, And his gates have been weakened; They are become black on the ground, And the cry of Jerusalem has gone up: (2:205) 3 And their chiefs sent the common people to the waters; They came to the cisterns, they found no water; They returned with empty vessels; They were confounded and ashamed, And they covered their head: 4 For the chapt ground, as there was no rain in the land, Ashamed were the husbandmen, And they covered their head: 5 Moreover the hind brought forth young in the field, And forsook it, for there was no grass: 6 And the wild asses stood on the cliffs, They drew in wind like serpents; Fail did their eyes, for there was no grass. (2:209) 7 Though our iniquities testify against us, O Jehovah, Deal with us for thine own name's sake; For multiplied have our defections, Against thee have we done wickedly, 8 Hope of Israel! Savior art thou In the time of trouble; Why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land? As a traveler, turning aside to pass the night? 9 Why shouldest thou be as a man terrified? As a strong man, who yet cannot save? Thou art in the midst of us, O Jehovah, And on us is thy name called, Forsake us not. (2:214) 10 Thus saith Jehovah of this people: As they have loved to wander, And have not restrained their feet, Therefore Jehovah has not been pleased with them; He will now remember their iniquities, And visit their sins.

(2.) This new creation is accompanied with a new law and a new covenant, or the law of faith and the covenant of grace, Romans 3:27, 8:2–4; Jeremiah 31:31–34; Hebrews 8:8–13. (3.) Unto this law and covenant a day of holy rest unto the Lord doth belong; which cannot be the same day with the former, no more than it is the same law or the same covenant which were originally given unto us, Hebrews 4:9; Revelation 1:10. (4.) That this day was limited and determined to the first day of the week by our Lord Jesus Christ, is that which shall now further be confirmed. Only I must desire the reader to consider, that whereas the topical arguments whereby this truth is confirmed have been pleaded, improved, and vindicated, by many of late, I shall but briefly mention them, and insist principally on the declaration of the proper grounds and foundations of it. 8. As our Lord Jesus Christ, as the eternal Son and Wisdom of the Father, was the immediate cause and author of the old creation, John 1:3, Colossians 1:16, Hebrews 1:2, 10, so as Mediator he was the author of this new creation, Hebrews 3:3, 4. He built the house of God; he built all these things, and is God.

. John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible. Jeremiah 34:1 INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 34 In this chapter is a prophecy of the taking and burning of Jerusalem; of the captivity of Zedekiah king of Judah; and of the destruction of the whole land, because of their breach of covenant to let servants go free. The time of this prophecy is observed, Jeremiah 34:1; the taking and burning of the city, Jeremiah 34:2; the carrying captive the king, who yet should not die a violent death, but in peace, and should have an honourable funeral, Jeremiah 34:3; the covenant the king, princes, and people entered into, to let their servants go free, according to the law of God, which was at first observed, and afterwards retracted, Jeremiah 34:8; which conduct is taken notice of and resented, Jeremiah 34:13; and they are threatened with the sore judgments of God, sword, famine, pestilence, and captivity, the king, princes, priests, and people; and with the destruction, not on of Jerusalem, but of the rest of the cities of Judah, Jeremiah 34:17. Ver. 1. The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord,....

Had laid close siege to it, and still continued it: and against all the cities of Judah that were left; unconquered by him; when he invaded the land, he fought against, and took, and ravished all the cities that lay in his way; and it seems there were none that stood out against him but Jerusalem, now besieged by him, and two others, next mentioned: against Lachish, and against Azekah; for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah; two cities that had been fortified by Rehoboam, 2 Chronicles 11:9; and were the only ones besides Jerusalem, which as yet had not fallen into the hands of the king of Babylon. Jeremiah 34:8 Ver. 8. [This is] the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord,.... Here begins a new prophecy, which was delivered some time after the former; that was given out while the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem; this after he had quitted the siege for a while, and was gone to meet the king of Egypt, who was coming to the relief of the city, as appears from Jeremiah 34:21; though the Jews {k} say this was delivered in the seventh year of Zedekiah, in the first month, and tenth day of the month; at the same time that the elders of Israel came to Ezekiel, to inquire of the Lord by him, Ezekiel 20:1; which was two years before the king of Babylon came against Jerusalem; but this seems not likely.

The prophecy (Jeremiah 34:8-22) refers to the Jews, who, afraid of the capture of the city, had, in obedience to the law, granted freedom to their servants at the end of seven years, but on the intermission of the siege forced them back into bondage. 1. Jerusalem and … all the cities thereof —(see on Jeremiah 19:15). It was amazing blindness in the king, that, in such a desperate position, he should reject admonition. 3. (Jeremiah 32:4). 4, 5. Mitigation of Zedekiah's punishment. 5. the burnings of thy fathers —Thy funeral shall be honored with the same burning of aromatic spices as there was at the funerals of thy fathers (2 Chronicles 16:14; 21:19). The honors here mentioned were denied to Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 22:18). Ah, lord! —The Hebrews in their chronology ( Seder Olam ) mention the wailing used over him, "Alas! King Zedekiah is dead, drinking the dregs (that is, paying the penalty for the sins) of former ages." 7. these … retained —alone (compare 2 Chronicles 11:5, 9). 8. By the law a Hebrew, after having been a bond-servant for six years, on the seventh was to be let go free (Exodus 21:22; Deuteronomy 15:12). Zedekiah made a covenant —with solemn ceremonial in the temple (Jeremiah 34:15, 18, 19). them —bond-servants (Jeremiah 34:9). 9. none … serve himself of a Jew —(Leviticus 25:39-46). 11. During the interruption of the siege by Pharaoh-hophra (compare Jeremiah 34:21, 22, with Jeremiah 37:5-10), the Jews reduced their servants to bondage again. 13.

Reproofs of the Jews, the second through twenty-fourth chapters, made up of seven sections: (1) the second chapter (2) the third through sixth chapters; (3) the seventh through tenth chapters; (4) the eleventh through thirteenth chapters; (5) the fourteenth through seventeenth chapters; (6) the seventeenth through nineteenth and twentieth chapters; (7) the twenty-first through twenty-fourth chapters. III. Review of all nations in two sections: the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth through forty-ninth chapters, with a historical appendix of three sections, (1) the twenty-sixth chapter; (2) the twenty-seventh chapter; (3) the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth chapters. IV. Two sections picturing the hopes of brighter times, (1) the thirtieth and thirty-first chapters; (2) the thirty-second and thirty-third chapters; and an historical appendix in three sections: (1) Jeremiah 34:1-7; (2) Jeremiah 34:8-22; (3) Jeremiah 35:1-19. V. The conclusion, in two sections: (1) Jeremiah 36:2; (2) Jeremiah 45:1-5. Subsequently, in Egypt, he added Jeremiah 46:13-26 to the previous prophecy as to Egypt; also the three sections, the thirty-seventh through thirty-ninth chapters; fortieth through forty-third chapters; and forty-fourth chapter. The fifty-second chapter was probably (see Jeremiah 51:64) an appendix from a later hand, taken from 2 Kings 24:18, &c.; 2 Kings 25:30.

12 . humbled not himself ] Jeremiah consistently advised Zedekiah to submit to the Chaldeans; but the king partly through fear of his princes, partly through illusive hopes, could never bring himself to do this; cp. Jeremiah 21:1-7 ; Jeremiah 34:8-22 ; Jeremiah 37:1-10 ; Jeremiah 37:17 ; Jeremiah 38:17-23 .

The sense of the expression, over whom my name was called , appears clearly from 2 Samuel 12:28 , where Joab, while besieging Rabbah of the Ammonites, invites David to come and take it himself “lest I (emph.) take the city, and my name be called over it ,” i.e. lest I get the credit of having captured it, and it be counted as my conquest. The phrase expresses thus the fact of ownership —whether acquired by actual conquest or otherwise (cf. Isaiah 4:1 ). It is used especially of the people of Israel, Jerusalem, or the temple, as owned by Jehovah: see Deuteronomy 28:10 ; Jeremiah 7:10-11 ; Jeremiah 7:14 ; Jeremiah 7:30 ; Jeremiah 14:9 ; Jeremiah 15:16 (of Jeremiah himself), Jeremiah 25:29 , Jeremiah 32:34 , Jeremiah 34:15 ; 1 Kings 8:43 (= 2 Chronicles 6:33 ); Isaiah 63:19 ; 2 Chronicles 7:14 ; Daniel 9:18-19 ; and the newly-recovered Hebrew text of Sir 47:18 . In A.V., R.V., the phrase is often, unfortunately, represented by the obscure paraphrase, “called by my name”; but the literal rendering, which is both clearer and more forcible than the paraphrase, is sometimes added in the margin of R.V. (e.g. 1 Kings 8:43 ). that doeth this ] An epithet confirmatory of the preceding promise; cf. Jeremiah 33:2 . Amos 9:11-12 stands in the LXX. (cod.

Jdg 15:1 ). The word is used of visits paid to the sick, cf. Sir 7:35 , and so in classical Greek (see Mayor on Jam 1:27 ), often in medical writings and in Plutarch (Grimm, sub v. , and Kennedy, Sources of N. T. Greek , p. 105); mostly in the LXX, as always in the N.T., in good sense ( Genesis 21:1 , Ps. 8:4, 79:14, Sir 46:14 , Jdt 8:33 , but also with reference to divine punishment, Ps. 88:31, 32, Jeremiah 9:9 ; Jeremiah 9:25 ; Jeremiah 11:22 ; Jeremiah 34:8 , etc.), cf. its use in Psalms of Solomon , where it is generally employed with reference to divine visitation, either for purposes of punishment or deliverance. In modern Greek = to visit , same sense as in LXX and N.T.; Kennedy, u. s. , p. 155. For its old English sense of visit , as looking upon with kindness, Lumby compares Shaks., Rich. II. , i., 3, 275: “All places that the eye of heaven visits ”.— τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς αὐτοῦ : though in a king’s palace, and far removed in one sense from his people, Moses remembers that he is an Israelite, and that he has brethren; while others forgot their brotherhood he reminded them of it: “motivum amoris quod Moses etiam aliis adhibuit Acts 7:26 ,” Bengel, cf. Exodus 2:10 , and Hebrews 11:24-25 . [204] literal, literally.

xii. 8. xii. 25. xiv. 3. xiii. 26. xxii, 7. xviii. 25. xxiii. 2. xiv. 4, xxiii, 20. xviii. 25. viii. 2. xvii. 19. xiv. 5. xiii, 9. xiii. 16. xiii. 6. xxi. 2. vii, 12. xiv. 24. iii. 1. xiii. 9. xiii. 9. xxiii. 17. vii. 10. xviii, 25. xvii. 25. xiii. 29. xiii. 19. xiii. 28, xiii, 9. xii. 7. xiv. 11. xiv. 27. iii, 1, xxiii. 14. INDEX OF TEXTS. xxi. 1. xiii. 9. xii. 15. xviii. 14, xxii, 5. xiii. 24. viii. 5. xii. 20. xii. 23. viii, 2. Intr. 15. xvi. 10, xii. 7. xviii. 27. xii. 34. xviii. 25. PROVERBS. xvi. 11. V, 2. viii ECCLESIASTES. CANTICLES. iii, 2, xiii. 17. iii, 16, xiv. 5, xiv, 11. xiv. 6. xiii, 9. xiii, 31. xiv, 6. iii. 16. ISAIAH. xii. 7. xvi. 18. xviii, 34. xxi. 7. xviii, 34. xiii. 12. iii. 16, xiii, ^9. xxiii, 6. xii. 24. xvii. 10. xii. 23, xxi. 7. xiv. 14. xix. 9. xiv. 14. xvi. 30. xvi. 30. xiii. 13. xxiii, 12. xiii, 34. xiii. 30. xviii. 34. INDEX OF TEXTS. xiii. 15. xvi. 30. xviii. 34. xiii. 27. xir. 20. vii. 10. vii. 8. xviii. 34. xviii. 34. xii. 8. JEREMIAH. xii. 25. vii. 12. xiii. 19. xiii. 15. viii. 1. xiii. 12. LAMENTATIONS. EZEKIEL. MICAH. xvi. 29. all. xvi. 18. xii. 26. xii. 6. NAHUM. xvii. 12. DANIEL. HABAKKUK. xvi. 31. xii. 20. viii. 6. ZEPHANIAH. xii. 19. iii. 16. xii. 14. HOSEA, JOEL. AMOS. xii. 6. xiii. 26 xiii. 1. xiv. 24. JONAH. INDEX OF TEXTS. HAGGAI. ZECHARIAH. MALACHI. WISDOM OF SOLOMON. ECCLESIASTICUS. BARUCH. (vide iv. 35.) 6. i. e. Epistle of Jeremiah, v. iv. 35. SONG OF THE THREE CHILDREN. S. MATTHEW. xii. 31. xii. 9. iii. 7. iii. 9. xvii. 9. viii. 7. iii. 14. xxiii. 3. xiv. 17. xvii. 4. viii. 3. vii. 6. vii. 15. xxi. 4. xiv. 17. xvii. 26. xiv. 26. xiii. 6. xvii. 29. xvii. 30. xiii. 6. iii. 8.x. 11. xiv. 28.