Matthew Poole Commentary - Jeremiah 40:16

Matthew Poole Commentary - Jeremiah 40:16 - 40:16

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Jeremiah 40:16 - 40:16

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40:1 - 40:1
40:2 - 40:2
40:3 - 40:3
40:4 - 40:4
40:5 - 40:5
40:6 - 40:6
40:7 - 40:7
40:8 - 40:8
40:9 - 40:9
40:10 - 40:10
40:11 - 40:11
40:12 - 40:12
40:13 - 40:13
40:14 - 40:14
40:15 - 40:15
40:16 - 40:16

Thus God dementates those whom he designeth to destroy. Gedaliah in this showeth an excellent temper, not to be over-credulous and suspicious, Charity thinks no ill, but not that prudence which became a chief magistrate. He ought to have been watchful against one against whom he had received such an information, which we shall in the next chapter find he was not, but was slain by him.