Jeremiah 43:6
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What does Jeremiah 43:6 mean?
[Even] men, and women, and children, and the king's
daughters,
&c.] This, according to the supplement of our version,
explains who they were that were taken and had into Egypt,
persons of every sex, age, and rank; though rather these words
design and describe persons distinct from the former, that came
out of other countries; see ( Jeremiah
41:10 ) ; and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain
of the guard had left
with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of
Shaphan:
even the poor of the land to till it; and to whom he gave fields
and vineyards, and committed them to the care and government of
Gedaliah, when the rest were carried captive to Babylon; and now
these, in some sort, may be said to be carried captive by their
own brethren into Egypt: and Jeremiah the prophet, and
Baruch the son of Neriah;
whom they forced with them, partly to punish them, and partly to
give countenance to their conduct; but not without the will of
God, who so ordered it in his providence, that they might have
the prophet with then, to reprove them for their sins, and warn
them of their danger and ruin, and so leave them inexcusable.
