jeremiah-44:28-esv

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 44:20-30

Daring sinners may speak many a bold word and many a big word, but, after all, God will have the last word; for he will be justified when he speaks, and all flesh, even the proudest, shall be silent before him. Prophets may be run down, but God cannot; nay, here the prophet would not. I. Jeremiah has something to say to them from himself, which he could say without a spirit of prophecy, and that was to rectify their mistake (a wilful mistake it was) concerning the calamities they had been... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 44:28

Yet a small number that shall escape the sword ,.... The sword of the king of Babylon, and the other judgments, and which would be but very few; "men of number" F11 מתי מספר "viri numeri", Montanus, &c.; , as in the Hebrew text, which might easily be numbered; Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah, and some few righteous persons among them, as Kimchi and Abarbinel observe: shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah ; they shall make their... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 44:28

Verse 28 He at length adds that a few would escape. He had said before, (Jeremiah 44:14) that there would be none, but added at the end of the verse, “but such as shall escape.” We said that this second clause is to be explained of the Jews who had been driven into exile in Babylon. But if it be applied to exiles in Egypt the meaning will be different. For the Prophet then said that none would escape, that none would remain alive: he thus doubtless took away every hope of deliverance with... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:1-30

Jeremiah's last sermon. There are other prophecies of Jeremiah recorded in this book in the chapters that remain, but this discourse is the last that we know of his delivering. And with it the curtain falls upon this great prophet of God; upon Baruch, his beloved companion and helper; and upon the wretched Jews for whose good he had laboured, but in vain. A long interval separates it from that in the previous chapter; for we see the people not now at Tahpanhes, at the border of Egypt, but... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:1-30

The end of Jeremiah; or, going down in clouds. With this chapter Jeremiah disappears from view. The sadness which surrounded his first ministry accompanies it to the last and deepens at its close; like a sunset in clouds, going down in darkness and storm, The path along which he had been led had been via crucis, a via dolorosa indeed; a lifelong tragedy, an unceasing pain. We can only hope that death came soon to him after his recorded history closes. We have seen him torn from his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:20-30

Jeremiah's rejoinder. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:26-28

The danger of corrupting true religion. God has from the beginning been solicitous for the purity of his revelation and worship. He would never suffer his ordinances to be tampered with, or share his honour with other gods. "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve" ( Deuteronomy 6:13 ; Luke 4:8 ). I. IT HAS BEEN GUARDED BY AWFUL SANCTIONS . Frequently in Old Testament history the death penalty was inflicted upon spiritual pretenders, false... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:28

Yet a small number, etc. Isaiah's doctrine of the remnant. In the midst of judgment, God remembers mercy, and his ancient covenant. A remnant is saved as the nucleus of a regenerate people. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:28

The remnant of the remnant. Of the Jews who escaped the sword of Nebuchadnezzar in the invasion of their land, "a remnant "fled to Egypt; of this body of refugees "a remnant" was to survive the dangers that would destroy the greater part. Thus but a small number would return to Jerusalem in safety. For their folly in fleeing to Egypt the fugitives would suffer a second desolation, while the captives in Babylon and the patient poor people who remained in the land of their fathers would be... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:28

Human and Divine confidence. I. IN WHAT THEY ARE ALIKE . 1 . In the assurance with which they are expressed. Here are men, in their worldly wisdom, perfectly certain that the course they have adopted will turn out right. It is always important to notice the assured unquestioning spirit in which men will set out on their enterprises. They do not seem to see the failures, disgraces, and humiliations of others; such overwhelming troubles are not to come nigh them. And all this... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 44:20-30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 44:28

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 44:28

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:1-30

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:1-30

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:20-30

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:26-28

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:28

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:28

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 44:28

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