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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 38:22 — And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house [shall be] brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those [women] shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, [and] they are turned away back.
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all
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Jer 41:10; Jer 43:6; Lam 5:11 |
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and those
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"Mr. Harmer would render, ""and here ( hennah, or reading hinneh, behold,) the women (wont to sing on public occasions) shall say,"" etc.; observing ""that these bitter speeches much better suit the lips of women belonging to the conquering nation, singing before a captive prince, than of his own wives and concubines."" This he illustrates by the following extract from Della Valle: When he was at Lar, in Persia, the king of Ormuz was brought thither in triumph; and ""this poor unfortunate king entered Lar, with his people, in the morning, music playing, and girls and women singing and dancing before him, according to the custom of Persia, and the people flocking together with a prodigious concourse, and conducting him in a pompous and magnificent manner, particularly with colours displayed, like what the Messenians formerly did to Philopoemen, the general of the Athenians, their prisoner of war, according to the report of Justin.""" |
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Thy friends
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Heb. The men of thy peace. Jer 38:4-6; Jer 20:10; Psa 41:9; *marg: |
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have set
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Jer 38:19; Lam 1:2; Mic 7:5 |
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thy feet
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Jer 38:6; Psa 69:2,14 |
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they are
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Jer 46:5,21; Isa 42:17; Lam 1:13 |
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Jer 41:10 |
Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that [were] in Mizpah, [even] the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites. |
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Jer 43:6 |
[Even] men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah. |
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Lam 5:11 |
They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah. |
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Jer 38:4 |
Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt. |
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Jer 38:5 |
Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he [is] in your hand: for the king [is] not [he that] can do [any] thing against you. |
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Jer 38:6 |
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon [there was] no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire. |
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Jer 20:10 |
For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, [say they], and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, [saying], Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. |
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Psa 41:9 |
Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me. |
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Jer 38:19 |
And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me. |
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Lam 1:2 |
She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears [are] on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort [her]: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies. |
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Mic 7:5 |
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. |
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Jer 38:6 |
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon [there was] no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire. |
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Psa 69:2 |
I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. |
 
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Psa 69:14 |
Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. |
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Jer 46:5 |
Wherefore have I seen them dismayed [and] turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: [for] fear [was] round about, saith the LORD. |
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Jer 46:21 |
Also her hired men [are] in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, [and] are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, [and] the time of their visitation. |
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Isa 42:17 |
They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye [are] our gods. |
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Lam 1:13 |
From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate [and] faint all the day. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 38:22," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Jer/38/22.html>.
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