Jeremiah 42

Vcr. 10. As for me, behold, I dwell at Mizpah, to serve the Chaldeans which will come unto us. I keep my residence here to be ready to obey any orders that tho king of Babylon scuds me by his servants. (See xli. 3.) But gather ye wine, and summer-fruits, and oil.] Wine and oil are put by a metonymy for grapes and olives. It was now about the mouth of August, (compare xli. 1.) the proper season for gathering in the summer-fruits in that country. (Seo Deut. xvi. 13.) Johanan and the other captains desire Jeremiah to inquire of God what they should do, promising obedience to his will. The prophet assures them of safety in Judea, and destruction in Egypt, and reproves their hypocrisy in promising what they meant not to perform.

Jeremiah 42:1

JeZANIAH the son of Hoshaiah. See xl. 8.

Jeremiah 42:2

Pray for us — that the Lord may shew us the way wherein we may walk. It is the* constant method of hypocrites to pretend a profound submission to the will of God till that comes to cross their incliuations or interest. Vcr. 10. I will build you up, and not pidl you down.] See xxiv. 6. xxxi. 28. xxxiii. 7. For I repent me of the evil which I have done to yoiu]

Jeremiah 42:11

Likewise, when all the Jews that were in Moab, 8cc. See the notes upon xii. 14. xv.4. Vcr. 14. Dost thou certainly knoio that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael to slay thee?] The king of the Ammonites had concerted this matter with Ishmael, with a design to make the Jews, who still remained in their own country, his vassals. (See xli. 10.)