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**Pashur.** See note on [Jeremiah 20:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/20/1) .

**goeth forth.** Some codices add "and falleth".
**life** = soul.

**welfare** = peace.

**dungeon.** See note on [Jeremiah 37:16](../../../kjv/jeremiah/37/16) .
**Hammelech** = the king. See note on [Jeremiah 36:26](../../../kjv/jeremiah/36/26) .
**prison** = house of detention.
**sunk in the mire.** To be preferred to the moral sinking of Zedekiah in [Jeremiah 38:22](../../../kjv/jeremiah/38/22) .

**Ebed-meleoh the Ethiopian.** See [Jeremiah 39:16](../../../kjv/jeremiah/39/16) ; and compare [Acts 8:27-38](../../../kjv/acts/8/27-38) .

**Ebed-melech.** Some codices add "the Ethiopian".

**thirty.** The king knew the danger. No need to suppose that "thirty" is a copyist's error for "three"!

**old cast** = cast-off clothes.
**clouts** = patches. Ang. -Sax. *clut =* a patch.

**armholes** = armpits.

**remained.** See note on [Jeremiah 37:18](../../../kjv/jeremiah/37/18) .

**Then, &c.** This is the last picture of Zedekiah, and the house of Judah.

**wilt thou not . . . me?** = thou wilt not. This second clause is not a question in the Hebrew text.

**As the LORD liveth** = By the life of Jehovah.
**soul.** Hebrew. *nephesh* ( App-13 ): i.e. May He Who gave us both our life, take mine away if I take thine, or give thee, &c.

**the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel.** See note on [Jeremiah 35:17](../../../kjv/jeremiah/35/17) .
**the God of hosts.** Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, omit "God", and read "Jehovah Z baioth, God of Israel".

**afraid** = apprehensive.

**princes.** Showing that Nebuchadnezzar himself was not there. Compare [Jeremiah 39:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/39/1) .
**set thee on** = persuaded thee. See note on [Jeremiah 20:7](../../../kjv/jeremiah/20/7) .
**sunk in the mire.** The moral sinking of Zedekiah far worse than Jeremiah's physical sinking.

**children** = sons.
**thou shalt cause this city to be burned.** Hebrew thou wilt burn. Note the idiom by which the *act* is put for the *declaration* that it should be done.

**he told them, &c.** In Holy Scripture we have an inspired *record* of what was said and done by others, but it does not follow that all that was so said and done was inspired.
**commanded.** Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, add "him".

**abode.** See the note on [Jeremiah 37:16](../../../kjv/jeremiah/37/16) . further date: viz. "in the tenth day of the month".

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