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Jeremiah 41:5

in Jeremiah 41

eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their garments, and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, carrying grain offerings and frankincense for the house of the LORD.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with meal-offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Jehovah.

KJV

That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the Lord.

This verse in Jeremiah 41

Commentary

7 notes on this verse
These three towns all lay in the tribe of Ephraim, and in the district planted by Salmaneser with Cuthites; but through the fact of these men having cut themselves (see Jer 16:6 note), is suspicious, yet they were probably pious Israelites, going up to Jerusalem, carrying the meat offering usual at the feast of tabernacles, of which this was the season, and mourning over the destruction, not of the city, but of the temple, to the repairs of which we find the members of this tribe contributing in Josiah’s time 2Ch 34:9.

This site's exposition

On the second day after the murder of Gedaliah

on Jeremiah 41:4-7

The day after the murder, eighty men come from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria with shaved beards, bringing offerings “for the house of the LORD.” Ishmael goes out “weeping as he went” and brings them into the city. There he and his men slaughter them and throw them into a cistern.

This site's exposition

carrying grain offerings and frankincense

The eighty come from Shechem, Shiloh and Samaria in the old northern kingdom, bringing offerings for a temple already burned. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown note that a temple's site stayed holy after its destruction. Shiloh had once held the tabernacle itself.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The people of God used to go rejoicing to the house of the Lord, but these went in the habit of mourners, with their clothes rent and their heads shaven; for the providence of God loudly called to weeping and mourning, because it was not with the faithful worshippers of God as in months past.
That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria,.... Places in the ten tribes, and which belonged to the kingdom of Israel; so that it seems even at this distance of time, though the body of the ten tribes had been many years ago carried captive, yet there were still some religious persons sons remaining, and who had a great regard to the temple worship at Jerusalem: even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves; as mourners for the destruction of Jerusalem, and the captivity of the people.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Lord--that is, the place where the house of the Lord had stood (2Ki 25:9). The place in which a temple had stood, even when it had been destroyed, was held sacred [PAPINIAN]. Those "from Shiloh" would naturally seek the house of the Lord, since it was at Shiloh it originally was set up (Jos 18:1).

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Having their beards shaven - All these were signs of deep mourning, probably on account of the destruction of the city.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיָּבֹ֣אוּand they came

    vaiyavouH935 →2568 times

  • אֲ֠נָשִׁיםmen

    ʾanashimH582 →566 times

  • מִשְּׁכֶ֞םfrom Shechem

    mishekhemH7927 →

  • מִשִּׁל֤וֹfrom Shiloh

    mishiloH7887 →32 times

  • וּמִשֹּֽׁמְרוֹן֙and from Samaria

    umishomeronH8111 →109 times

  • שְׁמֹנִ֣יםeighty

    shemonimH8084 →

  • אִ֔ישׁman

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • מְגֻלְּחֵ֥יshaven of

    megulecheiH1548 →

  • זָקָ֛ןbeard

    zakanH2206 →

  • וּקְרֻעֵ֥יand torn of

    ukerueiH7167 →63 times

  • בְגָדִ֖יםclothes

    vegadimH899 →217 times

  • וּמִתְגֹּֽדְדִ֑יםand having cut themselves

    umitgodedimH1413 →8 times

  • וּמִנְחָ֤הand an offering

    uminchahH4503 →211 times

  • וּלְבוֹנָה֙and frankincense

    ulevonahH3828 →21 times

  • בְּיָדָ֔םin hand their

    beyadamH3027 →1618 times

  • לְהָבִ֖יאto bring

    lehavi'H935 →2568 times

  • בֵּ֥ית[the] house of

    beitH1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 14:1

    You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 21:5

      Priests must not make bald spots on their heads, shave off the edges of their beards, or make cuts in their bodies.

    • Romans 9:8

      So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.

    • Galatians 3:26

      You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

    • Romans 9:26

      and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

    • Hosea 1:10

      Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to…

  • Through

    Joshua 18:1

    Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. And though the land was subdued before them,

    it leads to

    • Joshua 19:51

      These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families distributed by lot to the tribes of Israel at Shiloh before the LORD at the entrance…

  • Through

    2 Kings 25:9

    He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.

    it leads to

    • Amos 2:5

      So I will send fire upon Judah to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”

  • Through

    Genesis 33:18

    After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.

    it leads to

    • Judges 9:1

      Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,

About Jeremiah

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.