Jer 41:16-18, 42:14-22, 43:4-7 | TSK | STEP

‏ Jeremiah 41:16-18

even.

Chimham.

to go.As Johanan and the other princes had taken a decided part against Ishmael, they had no sufficient reason to fear that the Chaldeans would revenge on them the murder of Gedaliah; but perhaps Johanan was unwilling to be superseded in the command which he had rightly assumed, and so used his influence to induce the whole company to take refuge in Egypt; and their old attachment to the Egyptians rendered them more ready to concur in this ruinous measure.

42:14,19; 43:7; Isa 30:2,3

for they.

42:11,16; 43:2,3; 2Ki 25:25; Isa 30:16,17; 51:12,13; 57:11

Lu 12:4,5

because.

whom.

40:5

‏ Jeremiah 42:14-22

we will go.

41:17; 43:7; De 29:19; Isa 30:16; 31:1

nor hear.

4:19,21; Ex 16:3; 17:3; Nu 11:5; 16:13

If.If ye are determined to go into Egypt, the evils which ye dreaded by staying in your own land shall overtake and destroy you there; "and there shall ye die." God turned the policy of the wicked to their own destruction; for while they thought themselves safe in Egypt, there Nebuchadnezzar destroyed both them and the Egyptians.

17; 44:12-14; Ge 31:21; De 17:16; Da 11:17; Lu 9:51

that the sword.

13; 44:13,27; De 28:15,22,45; Pr 13:21; Eze 11:8; Am 9:1-4

Zec 1:6; Joh 11:48

follow close. Heb. cleave. there ye.

44:11,12,27

it be with all the men. Heb. all the men be. they shall.

22; 24:10; 44:14

none.

44:28

As mine.The people had witnessed the tremendous effects of the wrath of God, in the siege and destruction of Jerusalem; and had they not been past feeling, this denunciation must have made their ears tingle, and appalled their very souls.

6:11; 7:20; 39:1-9; 52:4-11; 2Ki 25:4-7; 2Ch 34:25; 36:16-19

La 2:4; 4:11; Eze 22:22; Da 9:11,27; Na 1:6; Re 14:10; 16:2-21

ye shall be.

18:16; 24:9; 25:9; 26:6; 29:18,22; 44:12; De 29:21,22; 1Ki 9:7-9

Isa 65:15; Zec 8:13

and ye shall see.

22:10-12,27

Go.God knew, that such was their miserable propensity to idolatry, that they would adopt the idolatrous worship of Egypt. Add to which, their going thither for protection was in effect refusing to submit to the king of Babylon, to whom God had decreed the rule of Judah and the neighbouring kingdoms.

De 17:16; Isa 30:1-7; 31:1-3; Eze 17:15

know.

38:21; Eze 3:21; Ac 20:26,27

admonished you. Heb. testified against you.

De 31:21; 2Ch 24:19; Ne 9:26,29,30; Ac 2:40; Eph 4:17; 1Th 4:6

For ye.God made known to the prophet their dissimulation; which he shunned not to declare to them.

3:10; 17:10; Ps 18:44; 65:3; Eze 14:3,4; 33:31; Mt 22:15-18,35

Ga 6:7

dissembled in your hearts. Heb. have used deceit againstyour souls.

Nu 16:38; Jas 1:22

Pray.

I have.