Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 41:1

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 41:1 - 41:1

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 41:1 - 41:1

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41:1 - 41:1
41:2 - 41:2
41:3 - 41:3
41:4 - 41:4
41:5 - 41:5
41:6 - 41:6
41:7 - 41:7
41:8 - 41:8
41:9 - 41:9
41:10 - 41:10
41:11 - 41:11
41:12 - 41:12
41:13 - 41:13
41:14 - 41:14
41:16 - 41:16
41:17 - 41:17
41:18 - 41:18

Jer 41:1-18. Ishmael murders Gedaliah and others, then flees to the Ammonites. Johanan pursues him, recovers the captives, and purposes to flee to Egypt for fear of the Chaldeans.

seventh month - the second month after the burning of the city (Jer 52:12, Jer 52:13).

and the princes - not the nominative. And the princes came, for the “princes” are not mentioned either in Jer 41:2 or in 2Ki 25:25 : but, “Ishmael being of the seed royal and of the princes of the king” [Maurer]. But the ten men were the “princes of the king”; thus Maurer’s objection has no weight: so English Version.

eat bread together - Ishmael murdered Gedaliah, by whom he was hospitably received, in violation of the sacred right of hospitality (Psa 41:9).