--- title: "Bullinger" description: "The Thirty-Sixth Prophecy of Jeremiah (see book comments for Jeremiah). the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 . chains = the two fetters, as in Jeremiah 3" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/jeremiah/40" --- **The Thirty-Sixth Prophecy of Jeremiah** (see book comments for Jeremiah). **the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 . **chains** = the two fetters, as in [Jeremiah 39:7](../../../kjv/jeremiah/39/7) . **the guard.** See note on [Jeremiah 39:9](../../../kjv/jeremiah/39/9) . **said.** Nebuzar-adan takes all the credit to himself. Compare [Jeremiah 39:11](../../../kjv/jeremiah/39/11) . **God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 . **evil** = calamity. Hebrew. *ra'a.* App-44 . **because ye have sinned, &c.** Reference to Pentateuch. **behold.** Figure of speech *Asterism* o *s* . App-6 . **hand.** Some codices, with eight early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "hands". **Now while he was not yet gone back** = And ere yet he could make reply. **Gedaliah.** See note on [Jeremiah 26:24](../../../kjv/jeremiah/26/24) , and Compare [Jeremiah 39:14](../../../kjv/jeremiah/39/14) . **Shaphan.** See note on [2 Kings 22:3](../../../kjv/2-kings/22/3) . **reward** = present. **Mizpah.** North of Jerusalem, near Anathoth. Compare [Jeremiah 41:5-9](../../../kjv/jeremiah/41/5-9) . [Joshua 18:26](../../../kjv/joshua/18/26) . 1Sa 7:16 ; [1 Samuel 10:17](../../../kjv/1-samuel/10/17) , and [1 Kings 15:22](../../../kjv/1-kings/15/22) . The scene of the following events: here had been Asa's fortress ([Jeremiah 41:9](../../../kjv/jeremiah/41/9) ); here Sennacherib and Nebuchadnezzar and Titus got their first view of Jerusalem. **men.** Hebrew pi. of *'enosh.* App-14 . **governor.** No more attempts to make a king, after Zedekiah's perjury. See [Ezekiel 17:15-19](../../../kjv/ezekiel/17/15-19) . **children** = young children. **poor.** Hebrew "poverty", put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), App-6 , for poor people. See [Proverbs 6:11](../../../kjv/proverbs/6/11) . **Ishmael.** The Massorites ( App-30 ) set their hand to obliterate the Divine names in the case of men who had served to disgrace it. One is ' *el* , in the compound "Ishmael", which means "whom my El heareth". It is used of five different men, and occurs forty-eight times: twenty times of Hagar's son; twenty-three times of Nethaniah's son in this history; and five times of the other three. On account of his horrible treachery, the memory of which is perpetuated by the fast of the seventh month ([Zechariah 7:5](../../../kjv/zechariah/7/5) ; [Zechariah 8:9](../../../kjv/zechariah/8/9) ), the vowel points were changed to obliterate the Divine Name (El): viz. *yishma'el,* instead of *yishma'el,* which is not observable in the ordinary English spelling. **sons.** Some codices, with Aram, and Septuagint, read "son", as in [Jeremiah 40:13](../../../kjv/jeremiah/40/13) . **Netophathite** = a man of Netophah, now *Khan Umm Tobah,* north of Bethlehem ([1 Chronicles 2:54](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/2/54) .[Ezra 2:22](../../../kjv/ezra/2/22) .[Nehemiah 7:26](../../../kjv/nehemiah/7/26); [Nehemiah 7:26](../../../kjv/nehemiah/7/26) ). **wine.** Hebrew. *yayin.* App-27 . **summer fruits.** Hebrew "summer". Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), App-6 , for the fruits gathered in summer. **fields** = field (singular) **slay thee** = strike thy soul. Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 . **man.** Hebrew ' *Ish* . 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