To serve the Chaldeans - literally, as noted in the margin: to be their minister and lieutenant. Gedaliah supposed that officers of high ran…

Gather ye wine, and summer fruits.—The words show that the application took place in the autumn. The captains and their followers were inv…

Here, as I have hinted, is explained the great humanity of Gedaliah, and also his pious concern for his own nation, so that the treachery and cruel…

As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the
Chaldeans that come to us
Her…

Jeremiah had never in his prophecies spoken of any good days for the Jews, to come immediately after the captivity; yet Providence seemed to encour…

This pa age describes the a embly of the princes.

1. Their gathering is described: and when all the captains of the army had heard...…