Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 41:5

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 41:5 - 41:5

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 41:5 - 41:5

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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

beards shaven, etc. - indicating their deep sorrow at the destruction of the temple and city.

cut themselves - a heathen custom, forbidden (Lev 19:27, Lev 19:28; Deu 14:1). These men were mostly from Samaria, where the ten tribes, previous to their deportation, had fallen into heathen practices.

offerings - unbloody. They do not bring sacrificial victims, but “incense,” etc., to testify their piety.

house of ... Lord - that is, the place where the house of the Lord had stood (2Ki 25:9). The place in which a temple had stood, even when it had been destroyed, was held sacred [Papinian]. Those “from Shiloh” would naturally seek the house of the Lord, since it was at Shiloh it originally was set up (Jos 18:1).