耶利米書 41:5-7 RCUVTS

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:5

That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria ,.... Places in the ten tribes, and which belonged to the kingdom of Israel; so that it seems even at this distance of time, though the body of the ten tribes had been many years ago carried captive, yet there were still some religious persons sons remaining, and who had a great regard to the temple worship at Jerusalem: even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:6

And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth to Mizpah to meet them ,.... Hearing there was such a number of men upon the road to Jerusalem, in such a habit, and upon such a design, he thought it advisable to go out and meet them, and stop them, and decoy them into the city, and there destroy them; lest, if they should have got any hint of what had been done by him, they should spread it, and raise the country upon him, before he had executed his whole design: weeping all along as he went ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:7

And it was so , when they came into the midst of the city ,.... Where Gedaliah's house was, to which he invited them; and as they went in, he shut up the court, as Josephus F8 Antiqu. l. 10. c. 9. sect. 4. says, and slew them, as it here follows: that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit ; when he had slain them, the fourscore men he had enticed into the city, except ten of them, he cast their dead bodies into a pit near at hand: ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 41:5

Having their beards shaven - All these were signs of deep mourning, probably on account of the destruction of the city. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 41:6

Weeping all along as he went - This felonious hypocrite pretended that he also was deeply afflicted, and wished to bear them company in their sorrow. Come to Gedaliah - He will appoint you vineyards and fields. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 41:7

Slew them - He kept the murder of Gedaliah secret, and no doubt had a band of his assassins lodged in Mizpah; and he decoyed these fourscore men thither that he might have strength to slay them. He kept ten alive because they told him they had treasures hidden in a field, which they would show him. Whether he kept his word with them is not recorded. He could do nothing good or great; and it is likely that, when he had possessed himself of those treasures, he served them as he had served... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 41:5

Verse 5 The Prophet skews here, that after Ishmael had polluted his hands, he made no end of his barbarity. And thus wicked men become hardened; for even if they dread at first to murder innocent men, when once they begin the work, they rush on to the commission of numberless murders. This is what the Prophet now tells us had happened; for after Gedaliah was killed, he says, that eighty men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, who brought incense and offering, to present them in... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 41:7

Verse 7 Here Jeremiah relates another circumstance in the nefarious conduct of Ishmael, that by flatteries he enticed simple men, who feared no evil, and while pretending kindness, slew them. The slaughter was in itself very detestable, but added to it was the most abominable deceit, for he pretended to weep with them, and offered an act of kindness, to bring them to Gedaliah, and then he traitorously killed them! We hence see that it was an act of extreme wickedness. In saying that he wept, it... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 41:1-10

Assassination of Gedaliah and other Jews. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 41:1-10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 41:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 41:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 41:7

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 41:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 41:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 41:1-10

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