5And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:
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For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
Are they ministers of Christ?(I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)In the beginning of Ezekiel’s prophecy we meet with a roll written in vision , for discovery of the things therein contained to the prophet himself, who was to receive and digest them, Ezek. 2:9 , 10 ; 3:1 . Here, in the latter end of Jeremiah’s prophecy, we meet with a roll written in fact , for discovery of the things contained therein to the people, who were to hear and give heed to them; for t…
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