Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 36:6

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6. go —on the following year ( Jeremiah 36:9 ). fasting day —(See Jeremiah 36:9- : ). An extraordinary fast, in the ninth month (whereas the fast on the great day of atonement was on the tenth day of the seventh month, Leviticus 16:29 ; Leviticus 23:27-32 ), appointed to avert the impending calamity, when it was feared Nebuchadnezzar, having in the year before (that is, the fourth of Jehoiakim), smitten Pharaoh-necho at Carchemish, would attack Judea, as the ally of Egypt ( 2 Kings 23:34 ; 2 Kings 23:35 ). The fast was likely to be an occasion on which Jeremiah would find the Jews more softened, as well as a larger number of them met together. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-7" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-jer-36-002

절 (explains)

bible-text/jer-36-6

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological