6Then 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.
Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. …
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)Here, 1. Jeremiah persists in his plain preaching; what he had many a time said, he still says (Jer. 38:3): This city shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon ; though it hold out long, it will taken at last. Nor would he have so often repeated this unwelcome message but that he could put them in a certain way, though not to save the city, yet to save themselves; so that every man might…
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