Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 41:7

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 41:7 - 41:7

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 41:7 - 41:7

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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

and cast them into ... pit - He had not killed them in the pit (compare Jer 41:9); these words are therefore rightly supplied in English Version.

the pit - the pit or cistern made by Asa to guard against a want of water when Baasha was about to besiege the city (Jer 41:9; 1Ki 15:22). The trench or fosse round the city [Grotius]. Ishmael’s motive for the murder seems to have been a suspicion that they were coming to live under Gedaliah.