Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
For thus ... - Because he makes the men of war dispirited. No doubt this was true. Jeremiah, however, did not speak as a private person, but as the representative of the government; the temporal ruler in a theocracy being responsible directly to God.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 38:4:
Amos 2:12
Amos 7:10
Zephaniah 1:8
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