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Jeremiah 39:9

in Jeremiah 39

Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away to Babylon the remnant of the people who had remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to him.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the people that remained in the city, the deserters also that fell away to him, and the residue of the people that remained.

KJV

Then Nebuzar–adan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.

This verse in Jeremiah 39

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard,.... The Targum is, "the captain of those that kill;'' of the soldiers, of the militia.

This site's exposition

The Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king

on Jeremiah 39:8-10

The Chaldeans burn the palace and the houses and break down the walls, as Jeremiah said in 37:8. Nebuzaradan carries the people to Babylon, but he leaves “some of the poor people who had no property” and gives them “vineyards and fields.” Gill and Barnes explain this as Babylon’s policy.

This site's exposition

Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away

The Targum, as John Gill cites it, renders Nebuzaradan's title captain of those that kill. He carries to Babylon the remnant left in Jerusalem, with the deserters, whom Adam Clarke explains as men who went over during the siege. The deserters Zedekiah feared in 38:19 share the exile.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The word tyrant is originally a Chaldee word, and is often used for lords by the Chaldee paraphrast, as if the Chaldeans, when they were lords, tyrannized more than any other: we have reason to think that the poor Jews had reason to say so.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Those that fell away - That deserted to the Chaldeans during the siege.

The words behind it

20 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.

  • וְאֵת֩and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • יֶ֨תֶר[the] rest of

    yeterH3499 →102 times

  • הָעָ֜םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • הַנִּשְׁאָרִ֣יםwho remained

    hanisharimH7604 →133 times

  • בָּעִ֗ירin the city

    bairH5892 →1090 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הַנֹּֽפְלִים֙those [who] had fallen

    hanofelimH5307 →435 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwho

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • נָפְל֣וּthey had fallen

    nafeluH5307 →435 times

  • עָלָ֔יוon him

    ʾalavH5921 →5755 times

  • וְאֵ֛תand <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • יֶ֥תֶר[the] rest of

    yeterH3499 →102 times

  • הָעָ֖םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • הַנִּשְׁאָרִ֑יםwho remained

    hanisharimH7604 →133 times

  • הֶגְלָ֛הhe took into exile

    heglahH1540 →186 times

  • נְבֽוּזַר־Nebuzar-

    nevuzar-H5018 →16 times

  • אֲדָ֥ן-adan

    ʾadanH5018 →16 times

  • רַב־[the] chief of

    rav-H7227 →454 times

  • טַבָּחִ֖ים[the] bodyguards

    tabachimH2876 →32 times

  • בָּבֶֽל׃Babylon

    bavelH894 →262 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

    Genesis 37:36

    Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 40:4

      The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he became their personal attendant. After they had been in custody for some time,

    • Genesis 37:28

      So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

    • Isaiah 56:3

      Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”

  • Through

    Jeremiah 40:1

    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem…

    it leads to

    • Joshua 18:25

      Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

    • Jeremiah 31:15

      This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

    • Ephesians 6:20

      for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it fearlessly, as I should.

    • Acts 21:13

      Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

    • Acts 12:6–7

      On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison.

Where this verse is studied

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About Jeremiah

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.