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Jeremiah
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Shephatiah the son of Mattan, Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah heard the words that Jeremiah spoke to all the people, saying, See also: Acts 4:6-10Acts 5:28Nehemiah 11:12“The LORD says, ‘He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, but he who goes out to the Chaldeans will live. He will escape with his life and he will live.’ See also: Jeremiah 39:18Jeremiah 34:17Jeremiah 45:5The LORD says, ‘This city will surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will take it.’” See also: Jeremiah 21:10Jeremiah 32:3-5Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death, because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them; for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm.” See also: Jeremiah 26:11Acts 16:20Amos 7:10Zedekiah the king said, “Behold, he is in your hand; for the king can’t do anything to oppose you.” See also: John 19:12-162 Samuel 3:391 Samuel 29:9Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire. See also: Jeremiah 37:21Jeremiah 38:22Psalms 69:14-15Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting in Benjamin’s gate), See also: Amos 5:10Jeremiah 37:13Jeremiah 29:2Ebedmelech went out of the king’s house, and spoke to the king, saying, “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. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.” See also: Jeremiah 37:21Proverbs 24:11-12Proverbs 31:8-9Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, “Take from here thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he dies.” See also: Esther 8:7Proverbs 21:1Esther 5:2So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took from there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, “Now put these rags and worn-out garments under your armpits under the cords.” Jeremiah did so. See also: Romans 12:10Ephesians 4:32Romans 12:15So they lifted Jeremiah up with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard. See also: Jeremiah 37:21Acts 28:30Acts 28:16Then Zedekiah the king sent and took Jeremiah the prophet to himself into the third entry that is in the LORD’s house. Then the king said to Jeremiah, “I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me.” See also: 1 Kings 22:16Jeremiah 37:17Jeremiah 21:1-2Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? If I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.” See also: Luke 22:67-68So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, “As the LORD lives, who made our souls, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.” See also: Jeremiah 37:17Jeremiah 38:1-6Zechariah 12:1Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “The LORD, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you will go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then your soul will live, and this city will not be burned with fire. You will live, along with your house. See also: Jeremiah 27:12Jeremiah 38:2Jeremiah 27:17But if you will not go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then this city will be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they will burn it with fire, and you won’t escape out of their hand.’” See also: Jeremiah 38:32 Kings 25:4-10Jeremiah 24:8-10Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have defected to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.” See also: John 12:42Isaiah 57:11John 19:12-13But Jeremiah said, “They won’t deliver you. Obey, I beg you, the LORD’s voice, in that which I speak to you; so it will be well with you, and your soul will live. See also: Daniel 4:27Jeremiah 26:13Isaiah 55:3But if you refuse to go out, this is the word that the LORD has shown me: See also: Ezekiel 2:4-5Ezekiel 2:7Numbers 23:19-20‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say, “Your familiar friends have turned on you, and have prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, they have turned away from you.” See also: Jeremiah 43:6Lamentations 1:2Lamentations 5:11They will bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans. You won’t escape out of their hand, but will be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. You will cause this city to be burned with fire.’” See also: Jeremiah 41:10Jeremiah 38:18Jeremiah 39:6Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no man know of these words, and you won’t die. But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you, and tell you, ‘Declare to us now what you have said to the king; don’t hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; also tell us what the king said to you;’ See also: Jeremiah 38:27Jeremiah 38:4-6then you shall tell them, ‘I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.’” See also: Jeremiah 37:20Jeremiah 37:15Jeremiah 42:2Then all the princes came to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they stopped speaking with him, for the matter was not perceived. See also: 1 Samuel 10:15-162 Kings 6:191 Samuel 16:2-5So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken. See also: Jeremiah 37:21Jeremiah 39:14Jeremiah 38:13
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Jeremiah 38:1
Ver. 1. And Phassur, the violent priest. C. xx. 1. --- People, who might come to the entry of the prison.
↑ 1Jeremiah 38:2
Ver. 2. Safe. Heb. "a booty." C. xxi. 9. --- Sept. "like a thing found." C. --- The Hebrew idiom implies that he shall most surely live. Voluntary offerings prevent eternal misery. W.
↑ 2Jeremiah 38:5
Ver. 5. Lawful. This is a compliment, or Sedecias complains indirectly that they had only left him the name of king. He grieved at the treatment of the prophet.
C.
↑ 5Jeremiah 38:6
Ver. 6. Mire, up to the neck; so that he would soon have been smothered. Jos.
Ant. x. 10.
↑ 6Jeremiah 38:7
Ver. 7. Eunuch. Officer over 30. v. 10. H. --- He was afterwards rewarded. C.
xxxix. 15. C. ---
God moves some to pity the distressed, till he recompense their patience. W.
↑ 7Jeremiah 38:9
Ver. 9. City. It was useless, therefore, to add the torment of the dungeon, since he must soon have perished. C.
↑ 9Jeremiah 38:12
Ver. 12. Arms. He was probably naked. Sanctius.
↑ 12Jeremiah 38:14
Ver. 14. Third, or officers of the guard's gate, leading from the palace to the temple. 4 K. xi. 19.
C. --- Heb. hashelishi; (H.) the third denotes also an officer of the army.
↑ 14Jeremiah 38:17
Ver. 17. King. He was at Reblatha. Though an usurper, he had claims upon Sedecias, whom he had appointed ruler, on his swearing to be faithful and to pay tribute. The prophet's advice was just. C. --- Even conditional prophecies are certain, and the king would have been treated differently if he had complied. But on his refusal, great misery ensued. W.
↑ 17Jeremiah 38:19
Ver. 19. Jews. Traitors, whom Sedecias had perhaps treated ill. C.
↑ 19Jeremiah 38:22
Ver. 22. Say. At parting, bewailing thy blindness, which has entailed misery upon all. H. --- Of peace. That is, thy false friends, promising thee peace and happiness, and by their evil counsels involving thee in misery. Ch. --- Mire. He alludes to his own treatment, (C.) which he had received from these false counsellors or princes. v. 4. H.
↑ 22Jeremiah 38:26
Ver. 26. There. This he had actually done. C. xxxvii. 19. He perhaps renewed the petition, at this interview, to satisfy the king. H. --- We may conceal the truth, but must never speak what is false. C. --- "In a matter, says Puffendorf, which I am not obliged to declare to another, if I cannot with safety conceal the whole, I may fairly discover no more than a part." Who can require a privy counsellor to reveal the king's secret? Yet Paine accuses the prophet of duplicity!
Watson.
↑ 26License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses