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Jeremiah 37:4

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Now Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people, for they had not yet put him in prison.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they had not put him into prison.

KJV

Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.

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This verse in Jeremiah 37

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Now Jeremiah came in and went out - After the siege was raised, he had a measure of liberty; he was not closely confined, as he afterwards was. See Jer 37:16.

This site's exposition

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Zedekiah son of Josiah the king of Judah

on Jeremiah 37:1-5

Verse 2 gives the verdict first: he and his people “refused to obey the words that the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.” Yet the king sends to Jeremiah, “Please pray to the LORD our God for us!” Jeremiah is still free, and Pharaoh’s advance has lifted the siege.

This site's exposition

Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people

The freedom was brief. Clarke ties it to the time when the Chaldeans withdrew from Jerusalem, before the prophet was put in the dungeon cell of verse 16. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown set it apart from his time in the courtyard of the guard in chapters 32 and 33.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Jeremiah . . . not put . . . into prison--He was no longer in the prison court, as he had been (Jer 32:2; 33:1), which passages refer to the beginning of the siege, not to the time when the Chaldeans renewed the siege, after having withdrawn for a time to meet Pharaoh.

The words behind it

10 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.

  • וְיִרְמְיָ֕הוּand Jeremiah

    veyirmeyahuH3414 →147 times

  • בָּ֥א[was] coming

    ba'H935 →2568 times

  • וְיֹצֵ֖אand [was] going out

    veyotze'H3318 →1067 times

  • בְּת֣וֹךְin among

    betokhH8432 →418 times

  • הָעָ֑םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • וְלֹֽא־and not

    velo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • נָתְנ֥וּthey had put

    natenuH5414 →2011 times

  • אֹת֖וֹ<obj.> him

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

  • בֵּ֥ית[the] house of

    beitH1004 →2046 times

  • הַכְּלֽוּא׃<the> imprisonment

    hakeli'H3628 →

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

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

5 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

    Jeremiah 37:15

    The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 38:26

      then tell them, ‘I was presenting to the king my petition that he not return me to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”

    • Jeremiah 26:16

      Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God!”

    • Matthew 21:35

      But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

    • Genesis 39:20

      So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,

    • 2 Chronicles 16:10

      Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.

About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 37 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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 (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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