A captain of the ward - Captain of the watch, whose business was to examine all who went in and out.The gate of Benjamin - The northern gate, also called the gate of Ephraim.Thou fallest away ... - His well-known views made Jeremiah a suspected person, though the charge was groundless. read more
The princes - Not the noblemen trained in the days of Josiah and Jeremiah’s friends Jeremiah 26:16, but those described in Jeremiah 24:8. They assumed that the accusation was true; they first scourged and then imprisoned Jeremiah. read more
Jeremiah 37:13-14. When he was in the gate of Benjamin The gate leading toward the country of Benjamin; Irijah, the son of Hananiah Probably of that Hananiah whose death Jeremiah had foretold, Jeremiah 28:17; took Jeremiah the prophet Apprehended him as one who was about to desert the city, and fall off to the Chaldeans; the ground of which accusation was the prophet’s having foretold that the Chaldeans should take the city, and exhorted the Jews to submit to them. Then said Jeremiah,... read more
Jeremiah imprisoned (37:1-21)Having dealt with events in the reign of Jehoiakim in the previous two chapters, the story now returns to the reign of Zedekiah. As in the case of Jehoiakim, Zedekiah ignored the warnings of God’s prophets (37:1-2).During Babylon’s final great siege of Jerusalem, Egypt sent an army to help the Jerusalemites. When the Egyptians approached, the Babylonians lifted the siege and went to deal with the new threat elsewhere. Zedekiah sent a message to Jeremiah, asking him... read more
the gate of Benjamin: i.e. the northern gate, called also "the gate of Ephraim" (2 Kings 14:13 .Nehemiah 8:16; Nehemiah 8:16 ), leading to Anathoth. Hananiah. Perhaps the false prophet mentioned in Jeremiah 28:1-17 . read more
princes. Named in Jeremiah 38:1 ; none of whom had been favourable to Jeremiah in the days of Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 26:16 ). read more
Jeremiah 37:13. Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans— The ground of this accusation was, the prophet's having foretold that the Chaldeans should take the city, and exhorted the Jews to submit to them. read more
13. ward—that is, the "guard," or "watch." Hananiah—whose death Jeremiah predicted (Jeremiah 28:16). The grandson in revenge takes Jeremiah into custody on the charge of deserting ("thou fallest away," Jeremiah 38:19; Jeremiah 52:15; 1 Samuel 29:3) to the enemy. His prophecies gave color to the charge (Jeremiah 21:9; Jeremiah 38:4). read more
The reason for his arrest and imprisonment 37:11-16 read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 37:14-15
Characteristics of injustice. They may be traced in the incident recorded in these verses. Unjust judges as were these— I. WILL NOT HEARKEN TO THE ACCUSED . II. ARE BIASED BY PASSION . III. ARE NEEDLESSLY CRUEL . IV. SEEK NOT EIGHT , BUT REVENGE . LEARN . To be careful what manner of spirit we are of whenever we are called upon to judge one another. Let us be thankful that the Judge before whom we stand, and who surveys all our ways,... read more