16When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die. …
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-21)We have here a further account concerning Jeremiah, who relates more passages concerning himself than any other of the prophets; for the histories of the lives and sufferings of God’s ministers have been very serviceable to the church, as well as their preaching and writing. I. We are here told that Jeremiah, when he had an opportunity for it, attempted to retire out of Jerusalem into the country…
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