22And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire. …
But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah. …
Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-23)These verses, as those before, plainly speak, I. Comfort to saints. They may be driven, by the common calamities of the places where they live, into the uttermost parts of the earth , or perhaps they are forced thither for their religion; but there they are singing, not sighing. Thence have we heard songs, and it is a comfort to us to hear them, to hear that good people carry their religion along…
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