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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Jeremiah 43"
description: "CHAPTER 43   :-. THE JEWS
CARRY JEREMIAH
AND BARUCH INTO
EGYPT. JEREMIAH
FORETELLS BY A TYPE
THE CONQUEST OF
EGYPT BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR,
AND THE FATE OF THE"
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CHAPTER 43

. THE JEWS
CARRY JEREMIAH
AND BARUCH INTO
EGYPT. JEREMIAH
FORETELLS BY A TYPE
THE CONQUEST OF
EGYPT BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR,
AND THE FATE OF THE
FUGITIVES.

**2. Azariah**—the author of the
project of going into Egypt; a very different man from the Azariah in
Babylon ([Daniel 1:7](../../../kjv/daniel/1/7); [Daniel 3:12-18](../../../kjv/daniel/3/12-18)).
**proud**—Pride is the
parent of disobedience and contempt of God.

**3. Baruch**—He being the younger
spake out the revelations which he received from Jeremiah more
vehemently. From this cause, and from their knowing that he was in
favor with the Chaldeans, arose their suspicion of him. Their
perverse fickleness was astonishing. In the forty-second chapter they
acknowledged the trustworthiness of Jeremiah, of which they had for
so long so many proofs; yet here they accuse him of a lie. The mind
of the unregenerate man is full of deceits.

**5. remnant . . . returned from all
nations**— ([Jeremiah 40:11](../../../kjv/jeremiah/40/11);
[Jeremiah 40:12](../../../kjv/jeremiah/40/12)).

**6. the king's daughters**—Zedekiah's
([Jeremiah 41:10](../../../kjv/jeremiah/41/10)).

**7. Tahpanhes**—(See on ); Daphne on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, near Pelusium.
They naturally came to it first, being on the frontier of Egypt,
towards Palestine.

**9. stones**—to be laid as the
foundation beneath Nebuchadnezzar's throne ().
**clay**—mortar.
**brick-kiln**—Bricks in
that hot country are generally dried in the sun, not burned. The
palace of Pharaoh was being built or repaired at this time; hence
arose the mortar and brick-kiln at the entry. Of the same materials
as that of which Pharaoh's house was built, the substructure of
Nebuchadnezzar's throne should be constructed. By a visible symbol
implying that the throne of the latter shall be raised on the
downfall of the former. Egypt at that time contended with Babylon for
the empire of the East.

**10. my servant**—God often makes
one wicked man or nation a scourge to another ([Ezekiel 29:18](../../../kjv/ezekiel/29/18);
[Ezekiel 29:19](../../../kjv/ezekiel/29/19); [Ezekiel 29:20](../../../kjv/ezekiel/29/20)).
**royal pavilion**—the rich
tapestry (literally, "ornament") which hung round the
throne from above.

**11. such as are for death to
death**—that is, the deadly plague. Some he shall cause to die by
the plague arising from insufficient or bad food; others, by the
sword; others he shall lead captive, according as God shall order it
(see on [Jeremiah 43:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/43/1)).

**12. houses of . . . gods**—He
shall not spare even the temple, such will be His fury. A reproof to
the Jews that they betook themselves to Egypt, a land whose own
safety depended on helpless idols.
**burn . . . carry . . .
captives**—*burn* the Egyptian idols of wood, *carry*
to Babylon those of gold and other metals.
**array himself with the land,**
&c.— [Isaiah 49:18](../../../kjv/isaiah/49/18) has the
same metaphor.
**as a shepherd,** &c.—He
shall become master of Egypt as speedily and easily as a shepherd,
about to pass on with his flock to another place, puts on his
garment.

**13. images**—statues or
obelisks.
**Beth-shemesh**—that is,
"the house of the sun," in *Hebrew;* called by the
Greeks "Heliopolis"; by the Egyptians, "On" (); east of the Nile, and a few miles north of Memphis.
Ephraim Syrus says, the statue rose to the height of sixty cubits;
the base was ten cubits. Above there was a miter of a thousand pounds
weight. Hieroglyphics are traced around the only obelisk remaining in
the present day, sixty or seventy feet high. On the fifth year after
the overthrow of Jerusalem, Nebuchadnezzar, leaving the siege of
Tyre, undertook his expedition to Egypt [JOSEPHUS,
*Antiquities,* 10.9,7]. The Egyptians, according to the Arabs,
have a tradition that their land was devastated by Nebuchadnezzar in
consequence of their king having received the Jews under his
protection, and that it lay desolate forty years. But see on ; [Ezekiel 29:13](../../../kjv/ezekiel/29/13).
**shall he burn**—Here the
act is attributed to *Nebuchadnezzar,* the instrument, which in
[Jeremiah 43:12](../../../kjv/jeremiah/43/12) is attributed to
God. If even the temples be not spared, much less private houses.

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