{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/jer041.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/jer041.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/jer041.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \nJeremiah 41:1\n \njer 41:1\nNow - Three months after the city was taken. Ishmael - The same Ishmael that came to Gedaliah, Jer 41:8-9, to whom he sware protection; only here we are told he was of the royal blood, which might both raise his spirits, as having a more legal pretence to the government, and rendered him a fitter instrument, for Baalis the king or queen of the Ammonites to make use of. The princes - Some of the princes, who had escaped the army of the king of Babylon. \nJeremiah 41:3\n \njer 41:3\nSlew - All those who were about the court of Gedaliah. \nJeremiah 41:4\n \njer 41:4\nNo man - No man who lived at any distance from Mizpah. \nJeremiah 41:5\n \njer 41:5\nThere came men - Who possibly had not heard of the temple being burnt. Cut themselves - With all indications of mourning used in those countries. \nJeremiah 41:8\n \njer 41:8\nHe forebare - His covetousness prevailed over his cruelty.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah Chapter 41","type":"page"}