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<p id="Chapter41" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 41
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<p id="Jer41_1"><a onclick="return mV('Jer',41,'1-18');">Jer 41:1-18</a>. ISHMAEL MURDERS GEDALIAH AND OTHERS, THEN FLEES TO THE AMMONITES. JOHANAN PURSUES HIM, RECOVERS THE CAPTIVES, AND PURPOSES TO FLEE TO EGYPT FOR FEAR OF THE CHALDEANS.
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<p><b>1. seventh month</b>—the second month after the burning of the city (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',52,12,13);">Jer 52:12-13</a>).
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<br><br><b>and the princes</b>—not the nominative. And the princes <i>came,</i> for the "princes" are not mentioned either in <a onclick="return mV('Jer',41,2);">Jer 41:2</a> or in <a onclick="return mV('2Ki',25,25);">2Ki 25:25</a>: but, "Ishmael being of the seed royal and of the princes of the king" [MAURER]. But the <i>ten men</i> were the "princes of the king"; thus MAURER'S objection has no weight: so <i>English Version.</i>
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<br><br><b>eat bread together</b>—Ishmael murdered Gedaliah, by whom he was hospitably received, in violation of the sacred right of hospitality (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',41,9);">Psa 41:9</a>).
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<p id="Jer41_2"><b>2. slew him whom the king of Babylon had made governor</b>—This assigns a reason for their slaying him, as well as showing the magnitude of their crime (<a onclick="return mV('Dan',2,21);">Dan 2:21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rom',13,1);">Rom 13:1</a>).
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<p id="Jer41_3"><b>3. slew all the Jews</b>—namely, the attendants and ministers of Gedaliah; or, the military alone, about his person; translate, "<i>even</i> (not 'and,' as <i>English Version</i>) the men of war." The main portion of the people with Gedaliah, including Jeremiah, Ishmael carried away captive (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',41,10,16);">Jer 41:10, 16</a>).
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<p id="Jer41_4"><b>4. no man knew it</b>—that is, outside Mizpah. Before tidings of the murder had gone abroad.
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<p id="Jer41_5"><b>5. beards shaven,</b> etc.—indicating their deep sorrow at the destruction of the temple and city.
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<br><br><b>cut themselves</b>—a heathen custom, forbidden (<a onclick="return mV('Lev',19,27,28);">Lev 19:27-28</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Deu',14,1);">Deu 14:1</a>). These men were mostly from Samaria, where the ten tribes, previous to their deportation, had fallen into heathen practices.
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<br><br><b>offerings</b>—unbloody. They do not bring sacrificial victims, but "incense," etc., to testify their piety.
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<br><br><b>house of...Lord</b>—that is, the place where the house of the Lord had stood (<a onclick="return mV('2Ki',25,9);">2Ki 25:9</a>). The place in which a temple had stood, even when it had been destroyed, was held sacred [PAPINIAN]. Those "from Shiloh" would naturally seek the house of the Lord, since it was at Shiloh it originally was set up (<a onclick="return mV('Jos',18,1);">Jos 18:1</a>).
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<p id="Jer41_6"><b>6. weeping</b>—pretending to weep, as they did, for the ruin of the temple.
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<br><br><b>Come to Gedaliah</b>—as if he was one of Gedaliah's retinue.
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<p id="Jer41_7"><b>7. <i>and cast them</i> into...pit</b>—He had not killed them in the pit (compare <a onclick="return mV('Jer',41,9);">Jer 41:9</a>); these words are therefore rightly supplied in <i>English Version.</i> "The pit" or cistern made by Asa to guard against a want of water when Baasha was about to besiege the city (<a onclick="return mV('1Ki',15,22);">1Ki 15:22</a>). The trench or fosse round the city [GROTIUS]. Ishmael's motive for the murder seems to have been a suspicion that they were coming to live under Gedaliah.
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<p id="Jer41_8"><b>8. treasures</b>—It was customary to hide grain in cavities underground in troubled times. "We have treasures," which we will give, if our lives be spared.
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<br><br><b>slew...not</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',13,8);">Pro 13:8</a>). Ishmael's avarice and needs overcame his cruelty.
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<p id="Jer41_9"><b>9. because of Gedaliah</b>—rather, "<i>near</i> Gedaliah," namely, those intercepted by Ishmael on their way from Samaria to Jerusalem and killed <i>at Mizpah,</i> where Gedaliah had lived. So <a onclick="return mV('2Ch',17,15);">2Ch 17:15</a>, "next"; <a onclick="return mV('Neh',3,2);">Neh 3:2</a>, <i>Margin,</i> literally, as here, "at his hand." "In the reign of Gedaliah" [CALVIN]. However, <i>English Version</i> gives a good sense: Ishmael's reason for killing them was <i>because</i> of his supposing them to be connected with Gedaliah.
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<p id="Jer41_10"><b>10. the king's daughters</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',43,6);">Jer 43:6</a>). Zedekiah's. Ishmael must have got additional followers (whom the hope of gain attracted), besides those who originally set out with him (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',41,1);">Jer 41:1</a>), so as to have been able to carry off all the residue of the people. He probably meant to sell them as slaves to the Ammonites (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jer/Jer040.html#Jer40_14">Jer 40:14</a>).
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<p id="Jer41_11"><b>11. Johanan</b>—the friend of Gedaliah who had warned him of Ishmael's treachery, but in vain (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',40,8,13);">Jer 40:8, 13</a>,).
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<p id="Jer41_12"><b>12. the...waters</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('2Sa',2,13);">2Sa 2:13</a>); a large reservoir or lake.
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<br><br><b>in Gibeon</b>—on the road from Mizpah to Ammon: one of the sacerdotal cities of Benjamin, four miles northwest of Jerusalem, now <i>Eljib.</i>
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<p id="Jer41_13"><b>13. glad</b>—at the prospect of having a deliverer from their captivity.
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<p id="Jer41_14"><b>14. cast about</b>—came round.
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<p id="Jer41_16"><b>16. men of war</b>—"The men of war," stated in <a onclick="return mV('Jer',41,3);">Jer 41:3</a> to have been slain by Ishmael, must refer to the military about Gedaliah's person; "the men of war" here to those not so.
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<br><br><b>eunuchs</b>—The kings of Judah had adopted the bad practice of having harems and eunuchs from the surrounding heathen kingdoms.
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<p id="Jer41_17"><b>17. dwelt</b>—for a time, until they were ready for their journey to Egypt (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',42,'1-22');">Jer 42:1-22</a>).
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<br><br><b>habitation to Chimham</b>—his "caravanserai" close by Beth-lehem. David, in reward for Barzillai's loyalty, took Chimham his son under his patronage, and made over to him his own patrimony in the land of Beth-lehem. It was thence called the habitation of Chimham (Geruth-Chimham), though it reverted to David's heirs in the year of jubilee. "Caravanserais" (a compound <i>Persian</i> word, meaning "the house of a company of travellers") differ from our inns, in that there is no host to supply food, but each traveller must carry with him his own.
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<p id="Jer41_18"><b>18. afraid</b>—lest the Chaldeans should suspect all the Jews of being implicated in Ishmael's treason, as though the Jews sought to have a prince of the house of David (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',41,1);">Jer 41:1</a>). Their better way towards gaining God's favor would have been to have laid the blame on the real culprit, and to have cleared themselves. A tortuous policy is the parent of fear. Righteousness inspires with boldness (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',53,5);">Psa 53:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',28,1);">Pro 28:1</a>).
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