Jeremiah 38:9-10 NKJV

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 38:1-28

The Disobedience Of Judah And Its King Is Highlighted By Their Treatment Of The Prophet Of YHWH (Jeremiah 37:1 to Jeremiah 38:28 ). These events once again took place during the reign of Zedekiah, the final king of Judah before the exile. Along with Jeremiah 34:1-7 this passage forms an inclusio for this subsection on disobedience, paralleling the similar inclusio in chapters 21-24, which brings out that the final intention of the prophecy at this stage is to concentrate on the destruction... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 38:1-13

Jeremiah 38:1-1 Chronicles : . Four of the princes ( Jeremiah 37:15) hear Jeremiah (confined in the guard-court, Jeremiah 37:21) foretelling the fall of the city and advising individual surrender ( cf. Jeremiah 21:9 f.). They denounce him to the king as a source of weakness to the defence, and Zedekiah gives him over to them. They lower him into the mud of a waterless cistern in the guard-court, belonging to a royal prince ( Jeremiah 36:26, note). This is reported to the king by a negro... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 38:9

The courage of this good eunuch was very remarkable; he did not stay till the king came in, but went to the king, as he was sitting in the gate of Benjamin, administering justice, or receiving and answering petitions, where doubtless he was not alone, and probably was attended there by some of those princes who had thrown Jeremiah into this miserable place. Ebed-melech was not afraid of them, but openly complains of their cruelty to the king, and tells him that Jeremiah would be starved to... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 38:10

There are several guesses why the king commandeth Ebed-melech to take thirty men for the doing of that for which three or four were sufficient. I think they judge best who think it was to guard him against any opposition. Things were now in a great disorder, the city being upon the matter taken, and the king himself was much in the government of his princes, and, as may easily be judged by what went before, and what we shall hereafter meet with, could not rule them, but was in some fear of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jeremiah 38:1-28

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronological Notes as on preceding chapter.Personal Allusions. Jeremiah 38:1. “Shephatiah,” never elsewhere mentioned. “Gedaliah,” possibly son of “Pashur” the violent (chap. Jeremiah 20:1-3). “Jucal,” called Jehucal (Jeremiah 37:3). “Pashur,” son of Malchiah, same as mentioned Jeremiah 21:1.Jeremiah 38:6. “Malchiah son of Hammelech” (see on Jeremiah 36:26).Jeremiah 38:7. “Ebed-melech the Ethiopian.” Mutilation to a Hebrew was forbidden by the Mosaic law... read more

William Nicoll

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

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Jeremiah 38:7-13

Jeremiah 38:7-13Ebed-melech the Ethiopian.Ebed-melech the EthiopianA slave from the Soudan, an eunuch in the household of Zedekiah, King of Judah, is by the side of the great Jeremiah, a humble servant yet an efficient protector. The slave and the prophet in our thought abide together.I. the circumstances which brought the two together and caused the strange conjunction. The prophet is cast into a dungeon, deep and loathsome. Into the slime of its unfloored depths he sinks, and there he lies.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 38:9

Jer 38:9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for [there is] no more bread in the city. Ver. 9. My lord the king, these men have done evil. ] What a brave man was this, to oppose so many princes, and so potent that the king himself dared not displease them! It was God’s holy Spirit that put this mettle into him, and gave him the freedom of... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 38:1-28

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 38:1-13

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 38:9

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 38:10

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jeremiah 38:1-28

Sermon Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 38:1-28

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 38:1-28

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

The Biblical Illustrator - Jeremiah 38:7-13

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 38:9

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