Geremia 37:15

15 E i principi si adirarono gravemente contro a Geremia, e lo percossero, e lo misero in prigione, in casa di Gionatan, scriba; perciocchè avevano di quella fatta una carcere.

Geremia 37:15 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 37:15

Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah
For attempting to depart the city, and go off to the Chaldeans, as Irijah had suggested to them, and to whom they hearkened; and perhaps would not hear what the prophet had to say for himself; and if they did, it had no weight with them: and smote him;
either with their fists, or with rods, or a scourge; perhaps he underwent the punishment of forty stripes save one, according to the law; and they may be said to smite or beat him, because they ordered it to be done: and put him in prison, in the house of Jonathan the scribe;
or secretary of state; such an one as Elishama was in Jehoiakim's time, who had a house or apartment at court as he had, who was now dead or removed, ( Jeremiah 36:12 ) ; for they had made that the prison;
which had not used to be; but by the courtiers, and with the consent of this scribe, secretary, or chancellor, it was made a prison; not for common malefactors, but for state prisoners; and a bad prison it seems it was. Very probably this scribe was a very cruel wicked man, who used those very ill that were his prisoners; and indeed, if he had not been of such a character, he would scarcely have suffered his house to have been made a prison.

Geremia 37:15 In-Context

13 Ma quando fu alla porta di Beniamino, quivi era un capitano della guardia, il cui nome era Ireia, figliuolo di Selemia, figliuolo di Hanania; il quale prese il profeta Geremia, dicendo: Tu vai ad arrenderti a’ Caldei.

14 E Geremia disse: Ciò è falso; io non vo ad arrendermi a’ Caldei. Ma colui non l’ascoltò; anzi, lo prese, e lo menò a’ principi.

15 E i principi si adirarono gravemente contro a Geremia, e lo percossero, e lo misero in prigione, in casa di Gionatan, scriba; perciocchè avevano di quella fatta una carcere.

16 Quando Geremia fu entrato nella fossa, e nelle grotte, vi dimorò molti giorni.

17 Poi il re Sedechia mandò a farlo trare di là: e il re lo domandò in casa sua di nascosto, e disse: Evvi alcuna parola da parte del Signore? E Geremia disse: Sì, ve n’è. Poi disse: Tu sarai dato in mano del re di Babilonia.