If you will assuredly go forth. —Literally, If going you will go, the Hebrew idiom of emphasis. The prophet plac…

A question may be raised here: whether God had again commanded His prophet to repeat what he had so often spoken in vain. To this we cannot say any…

Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah Being thus indemnified and secured by the king's word and oath, he proceeds freely to la…

Jeremiah was not eager to repeat the warnings, which seemed only to endanger his own life and add to the king's guilt, but asked whether he feared …

1. Here, Jeremiah is freed from the fear of death, his safety having been granted to him by the king.

   1. The agreement for his…