エレミヤ書 41:5-6 JC

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 41:4-8

The slaughter of the pilgrims. I. A NEEDLESS CRIME . Of course no crime is necessary, but some crimes have their plausible excuses. This had none. Ishmael had tasted blood, and murderous passions urge him to wanton violence. His only object in slaughtering quiet, inoffensive pilgrims must have been to please his master by the further depopulation of the land. So great a crime with so poor a motive evidences bloodthirsty tyranny. The worst crime is crime held cheap till it is pursued... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 41:5

There came certain from Shechem, etc. A number of pious pilgrims, descend. ants of the old ten tribes, passed by on their way to the holy site of the temple at Jerusalem (?). From Shiloh. The Vatican Codex of the Septuagint has a plausible reading, "from Salem," which is apparently supported by Genesis 33:18 , "And Jacob cares to Shalem, a city of Shechem," and by its improvement thus introduced into the geographical order (Shiloh is, in fact, nearer to Mizpah than Shechem, and ought to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 41:6

Weeping all along as he went. To testify his sympathy with their grief. But the reading of the Septuagint is more natural, "As they were going along and weeping." read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 41:5

These three towns all lay in the tribe of Ephraim, and in the district planted by Salmaneser with Cuthites; but through the fact of these men having cut themselves (see Jeremiah 16:6 note), is suspicious, yet they were probably pious Israelites, going up to Jerusalem, carrying the meat offering usual at the feast of tabernacles, of which this was the season, and mourning over the destruction, not of the city, but of the temple, to the repairs of which we find the members of this tribe... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 41:6

Ishmael’s conduct seems to have been dictated by the malicious desire utterly to frustrate Gedaliah’s work.Weeping - By this artifice he lured them into Mizpah. The Septuagint: “as they were ... weeping.” read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 41:5

Jeremiah 41:5. There came fourscore men, having their beards shaven, &c. “These were tokens of great mourning, by which these persons expressed their grief for the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple. Such expressions of sorrow were forbidden to be used at funeral obsequies, Leviticus 19:27-28; but might be lawfully used upon other mournful occasions. With offerings and incense to bring them to the house of the Lord Some understand this as if devout persons brought their oblations... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 41:6-8

Jeremiah 41:6-8. And Ishmael went forth to meet them, weeping all along as he went As if he sympathized with them, and bewailed, as they did, the desolations of Jerusalem. He appears to have been a complete hypocrite. As he met them he said, Come to Gedaliah He invites them to the new governor for protection, as if he had been one of his courtiers and friends, and by these arts conceals his bloody design against them. And when they came into the midst of the city Whence they could not... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:1-18

Ishmael’s plot against Gedaliah (40:13-41:18)One of the former army commanders, Ishmael, was opposed to Gedaliah’s policy of submission to Babylon. With Ammonite support he plotted to kill Gedaliah. So sincere and trusting was Gedaliah, that when told of the plot, he refused to believe it (13-16). Gedaliah apparently took no precautions against the reported treachery, and when a suitable time arrived Ishmael carried out his brutal plot. He murdered Gedaliah, along with all the Judean officials... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 41:5

Shiloh. The last of five references to Shiloh in Jeremiah. Compare Jeremiah 7:12 , Jeremiah 7:14 ; Jeremiah 26:6 , Jeremiah 26:9 . offerings. These would be meal-offerings, according to Leviticus 2:1 . Flesh sacrifices were now impossible. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 2:1 ). Probably for the feast of the fifteenth (Leviticus 23:23 , Leviticus 23:34 .Numbers 29:12 .Deuteronomy 16:13; Deuteronomy 16:13 ). to the house, &c. Still recognised as the place which Jehovah had chosen. the... read more