And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.
As to the people, God threateneth they should feel, what they were not willing to hear, even all the evil which God by his prophet had pronounced against them.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity,…. In cutting the roll pieces, and burning it, as Abarbinel interprets it; which either was done by himself, or by his order, and with his connivance; and at which perhaps his sons were present, and expressed a pleasure in it; an his servants that stood by assented to it, excepting three nor were they afraid of the judgments of God for it, nor in the least shocked at it, Jer 36:24; though this may be understood of all their iniquities they had been guilty of, the singular being put for the plural:
and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; the sword, famine, and pestilence; the destruction of their land, city, and temple; and their captivity in Babylon:
but they hearkened not; to what was said to them, neither in the first nor in the second roll.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Here a reason is given for what the former verse contains; for if the Prophet had only said, that the dead body of the king would remain unburied and cast out in dishonor to be exposed in the night to the cold and in the day to the heat, the narrative would not have produced the effect intended; but God shews here the cause, which was this, that he had forewarned King Jehoiakim and all his counsellors, (called here servants) and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all the Jews universally: as then they had been in due time clearly told what calamity was near at hand, and yet no one had repented, for this so great an obstinacy God says now that he would take vengeance, I will visit him and his seed and the whole people for their iniquity — what was the iniquity? even that they had so grievously and in so many ways provoked God, and had not returned to a sound mind, though reproved by the Prophet, but had become more and more hardened.
The extremity of their iniquity the Prophet thus points out, because they hearkened not to the threatenings, by which God had endeavored to rescue them from the coming ruin: for there would have been some hope of deliverance, had they deprecated God’s wrath; but as his threatenings had been despised, it was, as I have said, an extreme iniquity. And we see elsewhere how much God abominates this diabolical presumption of men,
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I have called to sackcloth and ashes; but ye have called to the harp and to joy, and have said, ‘Let us feast and drink, for to-morrow we shall die:’ as I live, this iniquity shall not be blotted out.” (Isa 22:12)
God swore by himself, that this sin should not be expiated, for the Jews repented not when he kindly invited them to himself, and declared to them that they could not escape extreme punishment. It is therefore no wonder that God in this place also represents their obstinate wickedness as being the greatest, the Jews having not hearkened to the reproofs conveyed to them by the mouth of Jeremiah. It follows —
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
Jer 36:31 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.
Ver. 31. And I will punish him and his seed. ] See on Jer 36:26 . The like is threatened to Zedekiah, Jer 21:7 who was therefore the worse, because he should have been warned by his brother’s miseries.
And I will bring upon them. punish him = visit upon him. Reference to Pentateuch (Exo 32:34). App-92.
punish: Heb. visit upon, Jer 23:34, *marg.
will bring: Jer 11:8, Jer 17:18, Jer 19:15, Jer 29:17-19, Jer 35:17, Jer 44:4-14, Lev 26:14, Deu 28:15-68, Pro 29:1
but: Mat 23:37
Reciprocal: 2Ki 23:37 – he did 2Ch 34:24 – I will bring Jer 11:11 – I will bring Jer 23:39 – and I Jer 25:4 – ye Jer 39:16 – Behold Eze 19:9 – and brought Hab 2:10 – consulted Zec 7:11 – they refused
Jer 36:31. These predictions had been made by word of mouth from God to Jeremiah and they were written in the book which Jehoiakim destroyed. This verse was to remind him of them and to warn him that his burning the former roll would not let him escape the punishment threatened for his iniquities.
The Lord would also punish him and his descendants, and his servants, with all the judgments that Jeremiah had predicted for the people of Jerusalem and Judah. He would send them because they had refused to listen to the Lord.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Fuente: Expository Notes of Dr. Constable (Old and New Testaments)