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When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
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The Reality of the Dungeon
Commentators stress that Jeremiah's prison was not merely a jail but a 'dungeon-house' or 'pit.' It was likely an underground cistern, dark, filthy, and containing cramped cells with little light, air, or room to move. This vivid description highlights the severe physical cost Jeremiah paid for his faithfulness to God's message.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Dungeon - literally, house of a cistern or pit, and evidently underground. In this cistern-like excavation were several cells or arched vaul…
16th Century
Protestant
The particle כי, ki, should, I believe, be taken here as an adverb of time—though interpreters have not observed this—meaning, as he says,…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon Or, "into the house of the pit" F12 ; a dungeon, like a pit or…
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