エレミヤ書 38:2-3 JC

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 38:1-28

Jeremiah’s escape from death (38:1-28)The chief officials in Jerusalem were a powerful group. They hated Jeremiah for his unchanging message of ‘submit to Babylon or perish’, and they managed to force the king to hand over Jeremiah to them for execution (38:1-5). They dropped him into a filthy disused well and left him there to die (6).There was, however, in Zedekiah’s court an African who had risen to a position of responsibility and who was favourable to Jeremiah. In an action that showed... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 38:2

goeth forth. Some codices add "and falleth". life = soul. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 38:2

Jeremiah 38:2. He shall have his life for a prey— As a spoil gained from the enemy; snatched out of the flames, and saved from the carnage. The beginning of the next verse should be rendered, For thus saith the Lord; which keeps up the connection. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 38:2

2. life . . . a prey—He shall escape with his life; though losing all else in a shipwreck, he shall carry off his life as his gain, saved by his going over to the Chaldeans. (See on Jeremiah 38:2). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 38:1-3

Four prominent men in Jerusalem heard Jeremiah preaching that anyone who remained in Jerusalem would die, but those who surrendered to the Chaldeans would live. He prophesied, apparently at this time from the court of the guardhouse (Jeremiah 37:21), that Jerusalem would certainly fall to the Babylonians.Gedaliah may have been the son of the Pashhur who beat Jeremiah and placed him in the stocks (Jeremiah 20:1-6). "Jucal" was probably the Jehucal who visited Jeremiah during the temporary... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 38:1-6

The plot to arrest Jeremiah 38:1-6 read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 38:1-28

1-3. The removal of Jeremiah from the prison was favourable to the publication of his message. Hence the alarm of the princes.1. Pashur] see on Jeremiah 20:2.2. He that goeth forth] i.e. submits: so Jeremiah 38:17.6. Dungeon] RM ’pit,’or cistern. It is conjectured that Psalms 69 may have been composed by Jeremiah on this occasion.7-13. Jeremiah is rescued by Ebed-melech. 10. Thirty] possibly a copyist’s error for ’three.’The two words resemble each other much more closely in Hebrew than in... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 38:2

(2) Thus saith the Lord.—The words carry us back to Jeremiah 21:9, and in any chronological arrangement of the book the one chapter would follow the other. It is obvious that to all who did not recognise the divine mission of the prophet, words like those which he had then spoken would seem to come from the lips of a traitor. Desertion to the enemy was represented as the only way of safety, and this was the counsel given to those who were defending the city of their fathers against an alien... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 38:1-28

1CHAPTER XIIJEREMIAH’S IMPRISONMENTJeremiah 37:11-21, Jeremiah 38:1-28, Jeremiah 39:15-18"Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken."- Jeremiah 38:28"WHEN the Chaldean army was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army, Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin "to transact certain family business at Anathoth. {Cf. Jeremiah 32:6-8}He had announced that all who remained in the city should perish, and that only those who... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Jeremiah 38:1-28

CHAPTER 38 1. Jeremiah in the dungeon and his rescue (Jeremiah 38:1-13 ) 2. Jeremiah with Zedekiah: His last appeal (Jeremiah 38:14-28 ) Jeremiah 38:1-13 . Jeremiah is next accused of high treason. The charge is based on his message, given to him by the Lord: “He that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live.” Like the conscientious objectors during the past war, they accused him of being unpatriotic. “This man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.” They demand his life. In... read more