the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Jeremiah 41:7
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slew: 1 Kings 15:28, 1 Kings 15:29, 1 Kings 16:10-12, 2 Kings 11:1, 2 Kings 11:2, 2 Kings 15:25, Psalms 55:23, Proverbs 1:16, Isaiah 59:7, Ezekiel 22:27, Ezekiel 33:24-26, Romans 3:15
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 3:27 - quietly 2 Samuel 13:24 - let the king Isaiah 14:19 - go Jeremiah 41:11 - Johanan
Cross-References
One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, "You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman."
Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And it was [so], when they came into the midst of the city,.... Where Gedaliah's house was, to which he invited them; and as they went in, he shut up the court, as Josephus h says, and slew them, as it here follows:
that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, [and cast them] into the midst of the pit; when he had slain them, the fourscore men he had enticed into the city, except ten of them, he cast their dead bodies into a pit near at hand:
he, and the men that [were] with him; Ishmael and the ten princes, with what servants they brought with them; these were all concerned in the death of these men.
h Antiqu. l. 10. c. 9. sect. 4.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The pit - the cistern, and in Jeremiah 41:9.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 41:7. Slew them — He kept the murder of Gedaliah secret, and no doubt had a band of his assassins lodged in Mizpah; and he decoyed these fourscore men thither that he might have strength to slay them. He kept ten alive because they told him they had treasures hidden in a field, which they would show him. Whether he kept his word with them is not recorded. He could do nothing good or great; and it is likely that, when he had possessed himself of those treasures, he served them as he had served their companions. Grain is preserved to the present day in subterranean pits, called mattamores, in different parts of the east.