Jeremiah 6

This Chapter is full of plagues and judgements, chiefly by the Chaldeans, threatened for their sinnes. And their sinnes charged upon them, as the Cause of those judgements.

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Benjamin] Which Tribe adhered still to Judah; had the Northerne halfe of Jerusalem; and joyned to the North-side of it, Josh. XVIII. 28.

flee out] Before flee unto it, for succour; chap. IV. 6. now to flee out of it, to escape: yea, out of the Land, ch. X. 17.

Tekoah] A fenced Citie, built by Rehoboam, 2 Chron. XI. 5, 6. Where Amos was among the herdmen, and called to be a Prophet, Amos I. 1. And where that wise woman dwelled, 2 Sam. XIV. 2.

Bethhaccerem] Nehem. III. 14. Very many Cities in Jurie, begin with Beth. There set up a signe of fire, or fire a Becon, to give warning of the Babylonians approach.

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Wholly oppression] As if all made of it.

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before me continually is grief and wounds] Their grievances and woundings one another, by their cruel dealings, are still before me, to provoke me to proceed in wrath against her.

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Be thou] A summons to Repentance.

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Turne back thy hand] Gods speech to the Chaldeans.

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To whom] The Prophets Speech.

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I am full] The Prophet cannot longer hold it in.

the aged] With the decrepit.

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were they ashamed] The false Porphets. They were shamelesse in it.

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stand ye] The seduced people; stand, as travellers use to do, when they are at a stand, and doubtful of the way.

we will not] Their wilful obstinacie.

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: Nations] God calls all the world to witnesse.

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To what purpose] So long as their lives and courses were such as had beene shewed, Esay I. 11,—15.

Sheba] Psal. LXXII. 10.

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I will lay stumbling-blocks] I will bring those things upon them that shall be meanes of ruine and mischief to them, Ezek. III. 20. and VII. 19.

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I have set thee] God to his Prophet.

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They are all] The Prophets answer.

One only verse in Jeremie is written in the Chaldee-language; for the ready use of the Jewes there, among, and against the Chaldeans Idols; viz. that in Ch. X. v. 11.

The seventy years captivity, or serving the King of Babylon, Ch. XXV. 11. take their rise and commencement, not from the last of Zedekiah; But from the first of Nebuchadnezzar, and third or fourth of Iehojakim; if not from the last of Iehojakim; and captivity of Iechoniah. See Jer. XXV. 1, 11, 12. and XXIX. 1, 2, 3, 10. Ezek. XL. 1. and XXXIII. 21. 2 Chron. XXXVI. 21, 22.

Rach l (who kept her fathers sheep, and had her name from Sheep or Ewe) her weeping for her children, chap. XXXI. 15. applied mostwhat by way of Allusion, to the mothers weeping for their children, Matth. II. 17, 18.

Jonadab, the sonne of Rechab; and not Rechab, the Author of that Injunction and Inhibition, to his Posterity; Chap. XXXV. 6, 8, 14, 16, 18, 19.

The Command concerning the Yoakes, chap. XXVII. 1, 2, 3. was either injoyned in the beginning of the reigne of Jehojakim, (and so the reigne of Nebuchadnezzar, and of Zedekiah, propheticaly foreseene and foretold by Jeremiah) And was after executed in the reigne of Zedekeih, when the Messengers of those neighbouring Kings, verse 3. came to Zedekiah, to congratulate him in the Beginning of his reigne; or to sollicit him to rebel against Nebuchadnezzar, in the fourth year of his reigne, chap. XXVIII. 1, 10. Or otherwise Jehojakim, in chap. XXVII. v. 1. must by errour of the Scribe be crept in, for Zedekiah; mentioned againe, v. 12. which thing in all Copies may not be admitted.

He shall be called, The Lord our Righteousness, chap. XXIII. 6.

She shall be called, The Lord our Righteousnesse, chap. XXXIII. 16. The Lord is our Righteousnesse.

Iehojakim is made King by Pharaoh Necho, and paies to him the tribute imposed, 2 Kings XXIII. 31, 32, 34, 35. slaies Uriah the Prophet, Ier. XXVI. 20,—23. And in the third or fourth year of his reigne, and first of Nebuchadnezzar, he was conquered by Nebuchadnezzar; as Jeremie foretold, chap. XXV. 1,—11. And he served him three years, 2 Kings XXIV. 1. In which time he burnes the Book written by Baruc from the mouth of Jeremie, chap.

XXXVI. After rebels against Nebuchadnezzar. And at last, after that, 2 Kings XXIV. 2. he is taken by him, and bound in fetters to be carried to Babylon, 2 Chron. XXXVI. 6. But dying by the way, his dead body is cast out, and he buried with the burial of an Asse; as Jeremie foretold, chap. XXII. 18, 19. and XXXVI. 30.

And so he slept with his fathers, 2 Kings XXIV. 6.

Zedekiah saw with his eyes the eyes of the King of Babylon: But not Babylon it self, where yet he should die in captivity: Having his eyes put out by Nebuchadnezzar at Ribla, Jer. XXXII. 4, 5. and LII. 10, 11. Ezek. XII. v. 13. and XVII. 16.

In the first year of Zedekiahs captivity and nineteenth of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan came, in the fifth moneth, seventh day, unto Jerusalem: and after two dayes preparation, and taking order about it, on the tenth day burnt the Temple, Kings house, and all the great mens houses. Or, began to burne them on the seventh day, which fire continued burning, and came to its height, or end, on the tenth day, Jer. LII. 12. 2 Kings XXV. 8.

Jewes carried capives into Babylon, by Nebuchadnezzar: in his I. Year; and third, or fourth moneth of Jehojakim; Daniel and his three Companions; and others. And part of the Vessels of the Temple, Jer. XXV. 1. Dan. I. 1, —6. VII. Year; and eleventh and last of Jehojacin; 3023. Persons. And, it seemes more Vessels of the Temple, Jer. LII. 28. 2 Chron. XXXVI. 7. VIII. Year; with Jehojakim; men of might, and apt for warre, 10000. out of all Jerusalem: and 1000. Smyths: and more Vessels of the Temple; and cut them in pieces, 2 Kings XXIV. 13, 14, 16. 2 Chron. XXXVI. 10. And at that time, Mordecai, Ester II. 5, 6. And Ezekiel; who calls it his Deportation, Ezek. XXXIII. 21. and XL. 1. XVIII. and XIX. years; and last of Zedekiah; He carried away Zedekiah; and 832. persons. And all the rest of the Vessels of the Temple, great, and small. And by Nebuzaradan the Captaine of the Guard, burnt the Citie of Ierusalem, and the Temple; brake down the Walls: slew Serajah the High Priest, and the second Priest; and twelve other principal men, and sixty others brought to him to Ribla by Nebuzaradan; Ier. LII. 11,—29. 2 Kings XXV. 8,—21. 2 Chron. XXXVI. 17, 18, 19. XXIII. Year; and fifth of Zedekiah’s captivity, by the aforesaid Nebuzaradan; 745. Ier. LII. 30. This was after the murder of Gedaliah.

Their number at their Returne out of the Captivity was farre greater, Ezra II. 64, 65. Neh. VII. 66, 67.