Skip to content
mannafest.faith

Jeremiah 38:1

in Jeremiah 38

Now Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchijah heard that Jeremiah had been telling all the people:

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah spake unto all the people, saying,

KJV

Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,

This verse in Jeremiah 38

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Then Shephatiah - This was the faction - what Dahler terms the Antitheocratic faction - who were enemies to Jeremiah, and sought his life.

This site's exposition

heard that Jeremiah had been telling all the people

on Jeremiah 38:1-6

Four officials say, “This man ought to die, for he is discouraging the warriors.” Zedekiah answers, “He is in your hands, since the king can do nothing to stop you.” They lower Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern of Malchiah, “which had no water but only mud.”

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur,.... Of these two persons we nowhere else read.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The deputation in Jer 21:1, to whom Jeremiah gave this reply, if not identical with the hearers of Jeremiah (Jer 38:1), must have been sent just before the latter "heard" him speaking the same words. Zephaniah is not mentioned here as in Jer 21:1, but is so in Jer 37:3. Jucal is mentioned here and in the previous deputation (Jer 37:3), but not in Jer 21:1.

The words behind it

22 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.

  • וַיִּשְׁמַ֞עand he heard

    vaiyishma'H8085 →1159 times

  • שְׁפַטְיָ֣הShephatiah

    shefatyahH8203 →

  • בֶן־[the] son of

    ven-H1121 →4930 times

  • מַתָּ֗ןMattan

    matanH4977 →

  • וּגְדַלְיָ֙הוּ֙and Gedaliah

    ugedalyahuH1436 →32 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • פַּשְׁח֔וּרPashhur

    pashchurH6583 →14 times

  • וְיוּכַל֙and Jucal

    veyukhalH3116 →

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • שֶׁ֣לֶמְיָ֔הוּShelemiah

    shelemyahuH8018 →10 times

  • וּפַשְׁח֖וּרand Pashhur

    ufashchurH6583 →14 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • מַלְכִּיָּ֑הMalkijah

    malkiyahH4441 →16 times

  • אֶ֨ת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַדְּבָרִ֔יםthe words

    hadevarimH1697 →1440 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֧רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • יִרְמְיָ֛הוּJeremiah

    yirmeyahuH3414 →147 times

  • מְדַבֵּ֥ר[was] speaking

    medaberH1696 →1141 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָעָ֖םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • לֵאמֹֽר׃ ס<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 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

    Ezra 2:3

    the descendants of Parosh, 2,172;

    it leads to

    • Ezra 8:3

      from the descendants of David, Hattush of the descendants of Shecaniah; from the descendants of Parosh, Zechariah, and with him were registered 150 men;

    • Ezra 10:25

      And among the other Israelites, from the descendants of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malchijah, and Benaiah.

    • Nehemiah 7:8

      the descendants of Parosh, 2,172;

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 9:12

    Adaiah son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah; Maasai son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;

    it leads to

  • Through

    Nehemiah 7:9

    the descendants of Shephatiah, 372;

    it leads to

    • Ezra 2:4

      the descendants of Shephatiah, 372;

    • Ezra 8:8

      from the descendants of Shephatiah, Zebadiah son of Michael, and with him 80 men;

Where this verse is studied

On this page

What the record shows

3 entries
  • Gedaliah (son of Pashhur) — attested in contemporary inscriptionwell-supported

    City of David bulla (2008, E. Mazar)

    Biblical figure (Official under Zedekiah, 597-586 BC) identified in extra-biblical epigraphy.

    Counterpoint: The seal carries no office, so the tie to Zedekiah's official is a match of name plus father's name. Both were common Judahite names, and standard method for these identifications, set out by Lawrence Mykytiuk, asks for a third mark such as a title before calling a match secure.

  • Pashhur — attested in contemporary inscriptionwell-supported

    City of David bulla (2008, E. Mazar)

    Biblical figure (Father of the official Gedaliah, late 7th c. BC) identified in extra-biblical epigraphy.

    Counterpoint: Pashhur appears only as a father's name on his son's seal, with no title. Jeremiah alone names at least three different men called Pashhur, so the seal by itself cannot say which one this is.

  • Jehucal (Jucal) — attested in contemporary inscriptionwell-supported

    City of David bulla (2005, E. Mazar)

    Biblical figure (Official under Zedekiah, 597-586 BC) identified in extra-biblical epigraphy.

    Counterpoint: The bulla is genuine and excavated, but it names no office. The standard set out by Lawrence Mykytiuk asks for three matching marks of identity, usually name, father's name, and title; this seal gives name and father's name only, in a period when both names were common in Jerusalem.

About Jeremiah

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.