the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Jeremiah 43:2
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Azariah: Jeremiah 40:8, Jeremiah 43:1, Jezaniah
Johanan: Jeremiah 40:13-16, Jeremiah 41:16
all the: Jeremiah 13:15, Exodus 5:2, Exodus 9:17, Psalms 10:4, Psalms 10:5, Psalms 12:3, Psalms 119:21, Psalms 123:4, Proverbs 6:17, Proverbs 8:13, Proverbs 16:5, Proverbs 16:18, Proverbs 16:19, Proverbs 30:9, Habakkuk 2:4, Habakkuk 2:5, Isaiah 9:9, Isaiah 9:10, James 4:6, 1 Peter 5:5
Thou speakest: They had no other colour for their rebellion than flatly to deny that God had spoken what the prophet had declared, the constant method of hypocrites and infidels, who pretend that they are not satisfied of the truth of Divine revelation, when the true cause of their unbelief is, that the commands of God contradict their lusts and appetites. Jeremiah 5:12, Jeremiah 5:13, 2 Chronicles 36:13, Isaiah 7:9
Reciprocal: Exodus 5:9 - vain words 1 Kings 12:6 - consulted 2 Chronicles 18:17 - Did I not tell Nehemiah 9:29 - yet they Psalms 10:2 - The wicked Psalms 119:69 - proud Proverbs 13:13 - despiseth Jeremiah 18:18 - and let us not Jeremiah 29:27 - which Jeremiah 36:18 - He Jeremiah 41:11 - Johanan Jeremiah 41:18 - for they Jeremiah 42:8 - Johanan Micah 2:3 - go
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Now the famine was still severe in the land.
So when Jacob's sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, "Go back and buy a little more food for us."
If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.
"Why did you bring this trouble upon me?" Israel asked. "Why did you tell the man you had another brother?"
And Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die-neither we, nor you, nor our children.
"Please, sir," they said, "we really did come down here the first time to buy food.
Better a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure with turmoil.
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
She appraises a field and buys it; from her earnings she plants a vineyard.
If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah,.... Perhaps the same with Jezaniah, or a brother of his, Jeremiah 42:1; he is mentioned first, it may be, because he was the contriver of this scheme to go into Egypt, advised unto it, and was most for it it. The Septuagint and Arabic versions call him the son of Maaseiah;
and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men; the great men among them, who are commonly proud of their greatness; of their descent, family and blood; of their wealth and riches, and posts of honour; perhaps the captains of the forces are meant, who elsewhere are mentioned along with Johanan, Jeremiah 40:13; these were men full of themselves, had a high opinion of their own wisdom, and were prudent in their own eyes; and could not bear to be contradicted or advised by the prophet, nor even by the Lord himself; and are justly, by the Targum, called wicked men; and so the Syriac version renders it; their pride was the cause of their rebellion against God, and disobedience to him, and of their ungenteel and insolent behaviour to the prophet
saying unto Jeremiah, thou speakest falsely: or, "a lie" e; it being contrary to their minds: so the prophets of the Lord, the ministers of the word, and even the word of God itself, are charged with falsehoods, when contrary to men's sentiments and lusts;
the Lord our God hath not sent thee to say, go not into Egypt to sojourn there; they did not care to own it was the word of the Lord, Whatever convictions of it they had in their minds; because they would not openly appear to be fighters against God, whom they professed to be their God; but deny that the prophet was sent by him with any such message to them; when they had all the reason to believe by former prophecies, which had had their fulfilment, that Jeremiah was a true prophet of the Lord, and that he had acted a very faithful part in the present affair: they themselves had sent him to the Lord to pray for them; he had done so, and the Lord had returned an answer by him; of which they had no reason to doubt, but their pride would not allow them to receive it.
e שקר "mendacium", Schmidt.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
These captains belonged to the party who had all along resisted Jeremiah’s counsels, and had led Zedekiah astray. Now however that events had proved that the prophet’s counsels had been wise and true, they cannot for shame find fault with him, but they affirm that he is under the influence of Baruch, a traitor who has sold himself to the Chaldaeans, and seeks only the hurt of the people.
These captains belonged to the party who had all along resisted Jeremiah’s counsels, and had led Zedekiah astray. Now however that events had proved that the prophet’s counsels had been wise and true, they cannot for shame find fault with him, but they affirm that he is under the influence of Baruch, a traitor who has sold himself to the Chaldaeans, and seeks only the hurt of the people.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 43:2. Thou speakest falsely — They had no other colour for their rebellion than flatly to deny that God had spoken what the prophet related.
