Jeremiah 39

When God would indulge the Jews with liberty in their religion, Cyrus, by a providence, puts forth a proclamation to encourage the Jews to go and build their temple at Jerusalem, and worship God (Ezra 1:2-3). If God will shield and protect Jeremiah's person in captivity: the ver…

Here was mercy. Therefore it was a special promise and privilege made and granted to some in times of great public sufferings and common calamities, as to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian (Jeremiah 39:18), and to Baruch the scribe (Jeremiah 45:5), that their lives should be given to th…