Yeremia 23:6
Konteks23:6 Under his rule 1 Judah will enjoy safety 2
and Israel will live in security. 3
This is the name he will go by:
‘The Lord has provided us with justice.’ 4
Yeremia 25:2
Konteks25:2 So the prophet Jeremiah spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the people who were living in Jerusalem. 5
Yeremia 26:24
Konteks26:24 However, Ahikam son of Shaphan 6 used his influence to keep Jeremiah from being handed over and executed by the people. 7
Yeremia 37:2
Konteks37:2 Neither he nor the officials who served him nor the people of Judah paid any attention to what the Lord said through the prophet Jeremiah. 8
Yeremia 40:13
Konteks40:13 Johanan and all the officers of the troops that had been hiding in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah.
Yeremia 41:17
Konteks41:17 They set out to go to Egypt to get away from the Babylonians, 9 but stopped at Geruth Kimham 10 near Bethlehem. 11
Yeremia 47:1
Konteks47:1 The Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah 12 about the Philistines before Pharaoh attacked Gaza. 13
[23:6] 1 tn Heb “In his days [= during the time he rules].”
[23:6] 2 tn Parallelism and context (cf. v. 4) suggest this nuance for the word often translated “be saved.” For this nuance elsewhere see Ps 119:117; Prov 28:18 for the verb (יָשַׁע [yasha’] in the Niphal); and Ps 12:6; Job 5:4, 11 for the related noun (יֶשַׁע, yesha’).
[23:6] 3 sn It should be noted that this brief oracle of deliverance implies the reunification of Israel and Judah under the future Davidic ruler. Jeremiah has already spoken about this reunification earlier in 3:18 and will have more to say about it in 30:3; 31:27, 31. This same ideal was espoused in the prophecies of Hosea (1:10-11 [2:1-2 HT]), Isaiah (11:1-4, 10-12), and Ezekiel (37:15-28) all of which have messianic and eschatological significance.
[23:6] 4 tn Heb “his name will be called ‘The
[23:6] sn The Hebrew word translated “justice” here is very broad in its usage, and it is hard to catch all the relevant nuances for this word in this context. It is used for “vindication” in legal contexts (see, e.g., Job 6:29), for “deliverance” or “salvation” in exilic contexts (see, e.g., Isa 58:8), and in the sense of ruling, judging with “justice” (see, e.g., Lev 19:15; Isa 32:1). Here it probably sums up the justice that the
[25:2] 5 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[26:24] 6 sn Ahikam son of Shaphan was an official during the reign of Jehoiakim’s father, Josiah (2 Kgs 22:12, 14). He was also the father of Gedaliah who became governor of Judah after the fall of Jerusalem (Jer 40:5). The particle at the beginning of the verse is meant to contrast the actions of this man with the actions of Jehoiakim. The impression created by this verse is that it took more than just the royal officials’ opinion and the elders’ warnings to keep the priests and prophets from swaying popular opinion to put Jeremiah to death.
[26:24] 7 tn Heb “Nevertheless, the hand of Ahikam son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah so that he would not be given (even more literally, ‘so as not to give him’) into the hand of the people to kill him.” “Hand” is often used for “aid,” “support,” “influence,” “power,” “control.”
[37:2] 8 sn These two verses (37:1-2) are introductory to chs. 37–38 and are intended to characterize Zedekiah and his regime as disobedient just like Jehoiakim and his regime had been (Jer 36:27; cf. 2 Kgs 24:19-20). This characterization is important because Zedekiah is portrayed in the incidents that follow in 37–38 as seeking the
[41:17] 9 tn Heb “Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for explanation.
[41:17] 10 sn Geruth Kimham is nowhere else mentioned in the Bible and its precise location is unknown. Many commentators relate the second part of the name to the name of the son of David’s benefactor when he fled from Absalom (2 Sam 19:38-39) and see this as a reference to an estate that David assigned this son as reward for his father’s largess. Gibeon was about six miles northwest of Jerusalem and Benjamin is approximately the same distance southwest of it. Hence, the people mentioned here had not traveled all that far.
[41:17] 11 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
[47:1] 12 tn Heb “That which came [as] the word of the
[47:1] 13 sn The precise dating of this prophecy is uncertain. Several proposals have been suggested, the most likely of which is that the prophecy was delivered in 609