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The imprisonment of Jeremiah. - During the time when the Chaldeans, on account of the advancing army of pharaoh, had withdrawn from Jerusalem and raised the siege, "Jeremiah went out of the city to go to the land of Benjamin, in order to bring thence his portion among the people." וְהָיָה, in accordance with later usage, for וַיְהִי, as in Jer 3:9; cf. Ewald, §345, b. לַחֲלִק is explained in various ways. לַחֲלִק for לְהַחֲלִיק can scarcely have any other meaning than to share, receive a share; and in connection with מִשָּׁם, "to receive a portion thence," not, to receive an inheritance (Syr., Chald., Vulg.), for מִשָּׁם does not suit this meaning. The lxx render τοῦ ἀγοράσαι ἐκεῖθεν, which Theodoret explains by πρίασθαι ἄρτους. All other explanations have still less in their favour. We must connect בְּתֹוךְ הָעָם with 'לָלֶכֶת וגו, since it is unsuitable for לַחֲלִק מִשָּׁם.