Jeremiah 37:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

smote. scourged.

put him in prison. Note Jeremiah '. prison experiences:. (1) put in on false charge (Jeremiah 37:11-15); (2) released, but confined in the court of the prison; (3) imprisoned again in Malchiah's miry dungeon (Jeremiah 38:1-6); (4) released again as before (Jeremiah 38:13-28); (5) carried away in chains by Nebuchadnezzar, but released at Ramah (Jeremiah 40:1-4).

in prison. in the house of bonds.

the prison. the house of detention.

Jeremiah 37:15

15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.