Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 42:10

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 42:10 - 42:10

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 42:10 - 42:10

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

42:1 - 42:1
42:2 - 42:2
42:3 - 42:3
42:4 - 42:4
42:5 - 42:5
42:6 - 42:6
42:7 - 42:7
42:10 - 42:10
42:12 - 42:12
42:13 - 42:13
42:14 - 42:14
42:15 - 42:15
42:16 - 42:16
42:17 - 42:17
42:18 - 42:18
42:19 - 42:19
42:20 - 42:20
42:21 - 42:21
42:22 - 42:22

If ye ... abide - namely, under the Babylonian authority, to which God hath appointed that all should be subject (Dan 2:37, Dan 2:38). To resist was to resist God.

build ... plant - metaphor for, I will firmly establish you (Jer 24:6).

I repent ... of the evil - (Jer 18:8; Deu 32:36). I am satisfied with the punishment I have inflicted on you, if only you add not a new offense [Grotius]. God is said to “repent,” when He alters His outward ways of dealing.