エレミヤ書 38:16 JCB

Sermon Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 38:1-28

Jeremiah 38:0 Ropes and rags. I. Help always comes from above. Jeremiah found it so. It was useless to try to climb out of the dungeon, it was only to fall deeper into the mire. "Salvation is of the Lord." Ebedmelech is only a very poor picture of Jesus. The Saviour does more than send down a rope. He comes Himself and lifts us up. II. Although Ebedmelech may be a very poor type of Jesus Christ, he is a very good picture of the style in which one man may help another. He had sympathy. His kind... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 38:1-28

Chapter 37Now we come to the third part of the book of Jeremiah and this covers the period of Zedekiah the king. These particular prophecies, thirty-seven through thirty-nine, cover from the time that Zedekiah ascended to the throne unto his captivity in Babylon. So he again gives us the time of the prophecy.And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon had made king in the land of Judah ( Jeremiah 37:1 ).So Zedekiah... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 38:1-28

Jeremiah 38:7 . Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, the king’s chamberlain. It seems to have been a new name given him on his promotion to office; but God gave him long life for preserving the life of Jeremiah. Jeremiah 38:26 . I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house. A good man is not bound to tell the whole truth to his enemies. When Samuel anointed David, he said that he went to Bethlehem to sacrifice to the Lord. 1 Kings 16:0. ... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 38:16

Jer 38:16 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, [As] the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life. Ver. 16. So the king Zedekiah sware secretly unto Jeremiah. ] But what credit was to be given to his oath, who was notoriously known to be a perjured person, as having broken his oath of fidelity to Nebuchadnezzar? As the Lord liveth, that made us this soul. ] Hence the truth of... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Jeremiah 38:16

sware: Jeremiah 37:17, John 3:2 that made: Numbers 16:22, Numbers 27:16, Ecclesiastes 12:7, Isaiah 57:16, Zechariah 12:1, Hebrews 12:9 of these: Jeremiah 38:1-Joshua :, Jeremiah 34:20 Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 20:3 - as thy soul Job 31:34 - Did I Jeremiah 22:25 - I read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 38:16

16. That made us this soul An unusual addition to the formula of an oath. read more