John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:1
Now it came to pass in the seventh month ,.... The month Tisri, which answers to part of our September, and part of October; according to the Jewish F2 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 26. p. 76. chronicle, it was on the third day of this month, fifty two days after the destruction of the temple, that Gedaliah was slain; on which day a fast was kept by the Jews, after their return from captivity, on this occasion, called the fast of the seventh month, Zechariah 7:5 ; though, according to Kimchi... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 41:1-10
It is hard to say which is more astonishing, God's permitting or men's perpetrating such villanies as here we find committed. Such base, barbarous, bloody work is here done by men who by their birth should have been men of honour, by their religion just men, and this done upon those of their own nature, their own nation, their own religion, and now their brethren in affliction, when they were all brought under the power of the victorious Chaldeans, and smarting under the judgments of God, upon... read more