Commentary

Jeremiah 38

Scofield Reference Notes (1917 edition) (1917)

The notes that made the Scofield Bible famous. They read Scripture through dispensationalism, a framework many Christians do not share: read with discernment.

Verses 4–5

let this man

See Jeremiah 26:11.

The fundamental reason why the prophetic warnings of the Old and New Testaments are unwelcome to an unreasoning optimism.

Verses 6–28

then took they

(See Scofield "Jeremiah 37:11").

Scofield Reference Notes (1917 edition) (1917). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.