It is difficult to say what motive Baalis could have had for murdering Gedaliah. As an ally of Zedekiah (Jeremiah 27:3), he may have ha…

Do you certainly know that Baalis ... —The king of the Ammonites so named appears from Jeremiah 27:3 to have been in alliance with…

A sad history is given here, from which we may conclude that God’s wrath against the people had not been appeased by the destruction of the city an…

And said unto him, do you certainly know
Not that they thought he did know, or that the thing was so flagrant that h…

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…

1. Here, the devising of plots is discussed:

   1. The plot made collectively by the princes: know that Baalis, w…