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Jeremiah 38:22
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20 But Jeremiah said, “They shall not deliver you. Please, obey the voice of the Lord which I speak to you. So it shall be awell with you, and your soul shall live.  
21 But if you refuse to surrender, this is the word that the Lord has shown me:  
22 ‘Now behold, all the awomen who are left in the king of Judah’s house shall be surrendered to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say:
“Your close friends have1 set upon you
And prevailed against you;
Your feet have sunk in the mire,
And they have1 turned away again.”  
23 ‘So they shall surrender all your wives and achildren to the Chaldeans. bYou shall not escape from their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. And you shall cause this city to be burned with fire.’ ”  
24 Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no one know of these words, and you shall not die.
25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you and say to you, ‘Declare to us now what you have said to the king, and also what the king said to you; do not hide it from us, and we will not put you to death,’
26 then you shall say to them, a‘I presented my request before the king, that he would not make me return bto Jonathan’s house to die there.’ ”  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Jeremiah 38:22

women—The very evil which Zedekiah wished to escape by disobeying the command to go forth shall befall him in its worst form thereby. Not merely the Jewish deserters shall "mock" him (Jeremiah 38:19), but the very "women" of his own palace and harem, to gratify their new lords, will taunt him. A noble king in sooth, to suffer thyself to be so imposed on!

Thy friends—Hebrew, "men of thy peace" (see Jeremiah 20:10; Psalms 41:9, Margin). The king's ministers and the false prophets who misled him.

sunk in . . . mire—proverbial for, Thou art involved by "thy friends'" counsels in inextricable difficulties. The phrase perhaps alludes to Jeremiah 38:6; a just retribution for the treatment of Jeremiah, who literally "sank in the mire."

they are turned . . . back—Having involved thee in the calamity, they themselves shall provide for their own safety by deserting to the Chaldeans (Jeremiah 38:19).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 38:22:

Jeremiah 20:10
Obadiah 1:7

 

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