4Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
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. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)Here is, 1. Jeremiah’s preaching slighted, Jer. 37:1 , 2 . Zedekiah succeeded Coniah, or Jeconiah, and, though he saw in his predecessor the fatal consequences of contemning the word of God, yet he did not take warning, nor give any more regard to it than others had done before him. Neither he, nor his courtiers, nor the people of the land, hearkened unto the words of the Lord , though they alread…
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