Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 41:7

COM commentary-section · status:draft · license:PD

7. and cast them into . . . pit —He had not killed them in the pit (compare :- ); these words are therefore rightly supplied in English Version. the pit —the pit or cistern made by Asa to guard against a want of water when Baasha was about to besiege the city ( Jeremiah 41:9 ; 1 Kings 15:22 ). The trench or fosse round the city [GROTIUS]. Ishmael's motive for the murder seems to have been a suspicion that they were coming to live under Gedaliah. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-8" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-jer-41-002

절 (explains)

bible-text/jer-41-7

Source

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