Jeremiah 41:1-18 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 41:1-10

It is hard to say which is more astonishing, God's permitting or men's perpetrating such villanies as here we find committed. Such base, barbarous, bloody work is here done by men who by their birth should have been men of honour, by their religion just men, and this done upon those of their own nature, their own nation, their own religion, and now their brethren in affliction, when they were all brought under the power of the victorious Chaldeans, and smarting under the judgments of God, upon... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 41:11-18

It would have been well if Johanan, when he gave information to Gedaliah of Ishmael's treasonable design, though he could not obtain leave to kill Ishmael and to prevent it that way, yet had staid with Gedaliah; for he, and his captains, and their forces, might have been a life-guard to Gedaliah and a terror to Ishmael, and so have prevented the mischief without the effusion of blood: but, it seems they were out upon some expedition, perhaps no good one, and so were out of the way when they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:1

Now it came to pass in the seventh month ,.... The month Tisri, which answers to part of our September, and part of October; according to the Jewish F2 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 26. p. 76. chronicle, it was on the third day of this month, fifty two days after the destruction of the temple, that Gedaliah was slain; on which day a fast was kept by the Jews, after their return from captivity, on this occasion, called the fast of the seventh month, Zechariah 7:5 ; though, according to Kimchi... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:2

Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him ,.... After they had eat and drank well, they rose up from their seats at table: and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword , and slew him ; they all drew their swords and thrust at him, and were assisting in the murder of him; though it is probable that it was Ishmael that gave him the mortal wound, since the phrase, "and slew him", is singular. Josephus F4 Antiqu. l. 10. c.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:3

Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah ,.... Not only those that were at table, but that were in the city also. Josephus F6 Antiqu. l. 10. c. 9. sect. 4. says, that having slain those that were at the feast with him, he went out in the night, and slew all the Jews in the city, and the soldiers that were left by the Babylonians in it; but this cannot be understood of all the individuals there, or of the main body of the people, for they were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:4

And it came to pass, the second day after he had slain Gedaliah ,.... That is, the day following, for it was in the night, as Josephus relates, as before observed, the murder was committed: and no man knew it ; not any out of the city, or in remote parts; for those that were in the city must be sensible of it; but as yet the report of it had not reached the neighbourhood, and much less distant parts; this is observed on account of the following story, and to show how easily the persons... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:5

That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria ,.... Places in the ten tribes, and which belonged to the kingdom of Israel; so that it seems even at this distance of time, though the body of the ten tribes had been many years ago carried captive, yet there were still some religious persons sons remaining, and who had a great regard to the temple worship at Jerusalem: even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:6

And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth to Mizpah to meet them ,.... Hearing there was such a number of men upon the road to Jerusalem, in such a habit, and upon such a design, he thought it advisable to go out and meet them, and stop them, and decoy them into the city, and there destroy them; lest, if they should have got any hint of what had been done by him, they should spread it, and raise the country upon him, before he had executed his whole design: weeping all along as he went ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:7

And it was so , when they came into the midst of the city ,.... Where Gedaliah's house was, to which he invited them; and as they went in, he shut up the court, as Josephus F8 Antiqu. l. 10. c. 9. sect. 4. says, and slew them, as it here follows: that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit ; when he had slain them, the fourscore men he had enticed into the city, except ten of them, he cast their dead bodies into a pit near at hand: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:8

But ten men were found among them, that said unto Ishmael, slay us not ,.... They begged for their lives, using what follows as an argument to prevail upon him: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey ; not that they had then a stock upon the ground at this time; for this being the seventh month, not only the barley and wheat harvests had been over long ago, but the rest of the fruits of the earth were gathered in: but this either means... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 41:1-10

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 41:11-18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 41:8

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