Jeremias 39:12

12 Toma-o, e trata-o bem, e não lhe faças mal algum; mas como ele te disser, assim procederás para com ele.

Jeremias 39:12 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 39:12

Take him, and look well to him
Take him out of prison; take him under your immediate care; receive him kindly, and use him humanely; provide everything necessary for him, and let him not want for anything: or, "set thine eyes upon him" ^F13 look pleasantly at him, and let him be always under your view and inspection; treat him not with neglect and contempt, but see to it that nothing is wanting to him: and do him no harm;
no injury to his person by beating, imprisoning, or starving him; nor suffer any to be done to him by the common soldiers, or by his own people: but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee:
let him have whatever he asks for: this was great favour from a Heathen prince indeed, and more than he met with from his own countrymen.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (wyle Myv Kynyew) "et oculos tuos pone super eum", V. L. Vatablus, Pagninus, Montanus, Schmidt.

Jeremias 39:12 In-Context

10 Mas aos pobres dentre o povo, que não tinham nada, Nebuzaradão, capitão da guarda, deixou-os ficar na terra de Judá; e ao mesmo tempo lhes deu vinhas e campos.

11 Ora Nabucodonozor, rei de Babilônia, havia ordenado acerca de Jeremias, a Nebuzaradão, capitão dos da guarda, dizendo:

12 Toma-o, e trata-o bem, e não lhe faças mal algum; mas como ele te disser, assim procederás para com ele.

13 Pelo que Nebuzaradão, capitão da guarda, Nebusazbã, Rabe-Sáris, Nergal-Sarezer, Rabe-Maeue, e todos os príncipes do rei de Babilônia

14 mandaram retirar Jeremias do átrio da guarda, e o entregaram a Gedalias, filho de Aicão, filho de Safã, para que o levasse para casa; assim ele habitou entre o povo.