Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880], at sacred-texts.com
Jeremiah Chapter 38
Overview
Jer 38:1, Jeremiah, by a false suggestion, is put into the dungeon of Malchiah; Jer 38:7, Edeb-melech, by suit, gets him some enlargement; Jer 38:14, Upon secret conference, he counsels the king by yielding to save his life; Jer 38:24, By the king's instructions he conceals the conference from the princes.
Jucal: Jer 37:4, Jehucal
Pashur: Jer 21:1-10, Melchiah, Ch1 9:12, Malchijah, Neh 11:12
heard: Act 4:1, Act 4:2, Act 4:6-10, Act 5:28
He: Jer 38:17-23, Jer 21:8, Jer 21:9, Jer 24:8, Jer 27:13, Jer 29:18, Jer 34:17, Jer 42:17, Jer 42:22, Jer 44:13; Eze 5:12-17, Eze 6:11, Eze 7:15, Eze 14:21; Mat 24:7, Mat 24:8; Rev 6:4-8
shall have: Jer 21:9, Jer 39:18, Jer 45:5
the princes: Jer 26:11, Jer 26:21-23, Jer 36:12-16; Ch2 24:21; Eze 22:27; Mic 3:1-3; Zep 3:1-3
thus: Exo 5:4; Kg1 18:17, Kg1 18:18, Kg1 21:20; Ezr 4:12; Neh 6:9; Amo 7:10; Luk 23:2; Joh 11:46-50; Act 16:20, Act 17:6, Act 24:5, Act 28:22
welfare: Heb. peace, Jer 29:7
for: Sa1 15:24, Sa1 29:9; Sa2 3:39, Sa2 19:22; Pro 29:25; Joh 19:12-16
took: Jer 37:21; Psa 109:5; Luk 3:19, Luk 3:20
into: Jer 37:16; Lam 3:55; Act 16:24; Co2 4:8, Co2 4:9; Heb 10:36
Hammelech: or, the king, Jer 36:26
and they: Jer 38:11, Jer 38:12
And in: This dungeon, which seems to have belonged to one of Zedekiah's sons, appears to have been a most dreadful place; the horrors of which were probably augmented by the cruelty of the jailor. "The eastern people," observes Sir J. Chardin, "have not different prisons for the different classes of criminals; the judges do not trouble themselves about where the prisoners are confined, or how they are treated, considering it merely as a place of safety; and all that they require of the jailor is, that the prisoner be forthcoming when called for. As to the rest, he is master to do as he pleases; to treat him well or ill; to put him in irons or not; to shut him up close, or hold him in easier restraint; to admit people to him, or to suffer nobody to see him. If the jailor and his servants have large fees, let the person be the greatest rascal in the world, he shall be lodged in the jailor's own apartment, and the best part of it; and on the contrary, if those that have imprisoned a man give the jailor greater presents, or that he has a greater regard for them, he will treat the prisoner with the greatest inhumanity." This adds a double energy to those passages which speak of "the sighing of the prisoner," and to Jeremiah's supplicating that he might not be remanded to the dungeon of Jonathan (Jer 38:26; Jer 37:20). Jer 38:22; Gen 37:24; Psa 40:2, Psa 69:2, Psa 69:14, Psa 69:15; Lam 3:52-55; Zac 9:11
Ebedmelech: Jer 39:16-18
Ethiopian: Jer 13:23; Psa 68:31; Mat 8:11, Mat 8:12, Mat 20:16; Luk 10:30-36, Luk 13:29, Luk 13:30; Act 8:27-39
eunuchs: Jer 29:2, Jer 34:19; Kg2 24:15 *marg.
the king: Jer 37:13; Deu 21:19; Job 29:7-17; Amo 5:10
these: Jer 38:1-6; Est 7:4-6; Job 31:34; Pro 24:11, Pro 24:12, Pro 31:8, Pro 31:9
is like to die: Heb. will die
for there: Jer 37:21, Jer 52:6
the king: Est 5:2, Est 8:7; Psa 75:10; Pro 21:1
with thee: Heb. in thine hand
let them: Jer 38:6
Put: Rom 12:10,Rom 12:15; Eph 4:32
So: Jer 38:6
Jeremiah: Jer 38:28, Jer 37:21, Jer 39:14-18; Kg1 22:27; Act 23:35, Act 24:23-26, Act 28:16, Act 28:30
sent: Jer 21:1, Jer 21:2, Jer 37:17
third: or, principal, Kg1 10:5; Kg2 16:18
I will: Jer 42:2-5, Jer 42:20; Sa1 3:17, Sa1 3:18; Kg1 22:16; Ch2 18:15
that made: Num 16:22, Num 27:16; Ecc 12:7; Isa 57:16; Zac 12:1; Heb 12:9
of these: Jer 38:1-6, Jer 34:20
the God of hosts: Psa 80:7, Psa 80:14; Amo 5:27
the God of Israel: Ch1 17:24; Ezr 9:4
If thou: Jer 38:2, Jer 7:6, Jer 7:7, Jer 21:8-10, Jer 27:12, Jer 27:17, Jer 39:3; Job 23:13
if thou: Kg2 24:12, Kg2 25:27-30
then: Jer 38:3, Jer 38:23, Jer 24:8-10, Jer 32:3-5, Jer 34:2, Jer 34:3, Jer 34:19-22, Jer 39:3, Jer 39:5-7, Jer 52:7-11; Kg2 25:4-10; Eze 12:13, Eze 17:20,Eze 17:21, Eze 21:25-27
I: Jer 38:5; Sa1 15:24; Job 31:34; Pro 29:25; Isa 51:12, Isa 51:13, Isa 57:11; Joh 12:42; Joh 19:12, Joh 19:13
mock: Jer 38:22; Jdg 9:54, Jdg 16:25; Sa1 31:4; Isa 45:9, Isa 45:10
Obey: Jer 26:13; Ch2 20:20; Dan 4:27; Act 26:29; Co2 5:11, Co2 5:20, Co2 6:1; Plm 1:8-10; Jam 1:22
and thy: Isa 55:3
if thou: Jer 5:3; Exo 10:3, Exo 10:4, Exo 16:28; Job 34:33; Pro 1:24-31; Isa 1:19, Isa 1:20; Heb 12:25
this is: Jer 15:19-21, Jer 26:15; Num 23:19, Num 23:20, Num 24:13; Job 23:13; Eze 2:4, Eze 2:5, Eze 2:7; Eze 3:17-19; Act 18:6, Act 20:26, Act 20:27
all: Jer 41:10, Jer 43:6; Lam 5:11
and those: Mr. Harmer would render, "and here (hennah or reading hinneh behold), the women (wont to sing on public occasions) shall say," etc.; observing "that these bitter speeches much better suit the lips of women belonging to the conquering nation, singing before a captive prince, than of his own wives and concubines." This he illustrates by the following extract from Della Valle: When he was at Lar, in Persia, the king of Ormuz was brought thither in triumph; and "this poor unfortunate king entered Lar, with his people, in the morning, music playing, and girls and women singing and dancing before him, according to the custom of Persia, and the people flocking together with a prodigious concourse, and conducting him in a pompous and magnificent manner, particularly with colours displayed, like what the Messenians formerly did to Philopoemen, the general of the Athenians, their prisoner of war, according to the report of Justin."
Thy friends: Heb. The men of thy peace, Jer 38:4-6, Jer 20:10; Psa 41:9 *marg.
have set: Jer 38:19; Lam 1:2; Mic 7:5
thy feet: Jer 38:6; Psa 69:2, Psa 69:14
they are: Jer 46:5, Jer 46:21; Isa 42:17; Lam 1:13
they shall: Jer 38:18, Jer 39:6, Jer 41:10, Jer 52:8-13; Kg2 25:7; Ch2 36:20,Ch2 36:21
shalt cause: etc. Heb. shalt burn, etc. Jer 27:12, Jer 27:13; Eze 14:9, Eze 43:3
Jer 37:15, Jer 37:20, Jer 42:2; Est 4:8
and he told: Sa1 10:15, Sa1 10:16, Sa1 16:2-5; Kg2 6:19; Act 23:6
left off speaking with him: Heb. were silent from him
Jer 38:13, Jer 15:20,Jer 15:21, Jer 37:21, Jer 39:14; Psa 23:4; Ti2 3:11, Ti2 4:17, Ti2 4:18