3Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
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But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)We have here the sign by which the utter destruction of Jerusalem is set forth; and here, as before, the prophet is himself the sign, that the people might see how much he affected himself with, and interested himself in, the case of Jerusalem, and how it lay to his heart, even when he foretold the desolations of it. He was so much concerned about it as to take what was done to it as done to himse…
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