This justifieth the restrained interpretation of none of the remnant, Jeremiah 44:14; for here it is plainly said that some should escape and return; but for the rest, they should there perish, and by that it would appear whether God’s word or theirs should stand, and have its accomplishment; they promising themselves security, God threatening them with utter ruin and destruction. read more
Signs are usually antecedent to the thing signified, but the word is taken in a larger notion in this place, for that which should attend the thing signified by it, as Exodus 3:12; besides, though their destruction and the destruction of Pharaoh-hophra were things immediately following one another, yet the latter was in order before the other. read more
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. Chronology of the Chapter.—A considerable interval must be placed between this chapter and the two preceding, which record their arrival in Egypt; for we here find the fugitives coming together to Pathros from their different towns, so that we have to allow time for their dispersion through Egypt and settlement in widely separated cities there. Yet the address of Jeremiah assumes that he speaks to the people of the migration who have come into Egypt, and not to... read more
Chapter 44The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt ( Jeremiah 44:1 ),And this is Jeremiah's final message to the people. God's last word to the nation that have turned their backs on Him and have gone to Egypt. Back to the place from which God had delivered them, and God gives to them His final word. "The word which came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which were in the land of Egypt."which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in... read more
Jeremiah 44:1 . Migdol was not far from the Red sea. Exodus 14:2. It was now a great city, being in several places put first by Jeremiah, situate only twelve hundred paces from Damiette. Pathros was the district surrounding Noph or Memphis; but Cairo is built not far from the ancient Memphis. See on Isaiah 19:11. Pathros is by others called Theboid, or the country surrounding Thebes. Jeremiah 44:13 . I will punish them that dwell in Egypt. The whole land of the Egyptians, and by... read more
Jer 44:26 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth. Ver. 26. Behold, I have sworn by my great name. ] Jehovah, my incommunicable name, my proper name, or by myself, and that is no small oath. read more
Jer 44:27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that [are] in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them. Ver. 27. Behold, I will watch over them for evil. ] I will watch them a shrewd turn, as we say. I will take my time to hit them when I may most hurt them. read more
Jer 44:28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs. Ver. 28. Yet a small number. ] Methe mispar, men of number, a poor few: still God reserveth a remnant for royal use. Shall know whose word shall stand. ] Because they are so peremptory and resolute, I shall try it out with them. I shall be as... read more
Jer 44:29 And this [shall be] a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil: Ver. 29. That I will punish you in this place. ] Which you looked upon as a place of surest security and safeguard, and would not hearken to me opening my bounties bosom to you at home. read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 44:27
God here either sets out himself as one who would be industrious and solicitous to bring evil upon them, as men who are so in any business watch opportunities to do it; or else he derides their vain confidence as to his protection of them, and care for them: saith God, I will watch over them, but not to build and to plant, as Jeremiah 31:28, but, as it is in the former part of that verse, to pluck up, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict. For so it follows, they shall be consumed... read more