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Deception Through False Piety
All commentators agree that Ishmael's weeping was a deliberate deception. John Calvin calls them 'crocodile tears' and an act of 'feigned piety.' Ishmael pretended to share the pilgrims' grief over Jerusalem's destruction to gain their trust and lure them to their deaths, a stark example of evil cloaking itself in righteousness.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 41:6
18th Century
Theologian
Ishmael’s conduct seems to have been dictated by the malicious desire utterly to frustrate Gedaliah’s work.
Weeping - By this artifice…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 41:6
19th Century
Bishop
Weeping all along as he went. —The treacherous prince met them as sharing in their grief. He does not tell them of the mu…
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 41:6–7
16th Century
Theologian
Here Jeremiah relates another circumstance in the nefarious conduct of Ishmael: by flatteries he enticed simple men, who feared no evil, and while …
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John Gill
On Jeremiah 41:6
17th Century
Pastor
And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth to Mizpah to meet them Hearing there was such a number of men upon the road t…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 41:1–10
17th Century
Minister
Those who hate the worshipers of God often put on the appearance of piety so that they may more easily hurt them. As death often meets people where…