Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 29:32
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.
32. therefore thus saith the Lord ] For the construction see note on Jer 29:24-32.
he shall not the good ] But Shemaiah could no more than Jeremiah himself hope to see the far distant day of return. Thus the LXX reading is to be preferred, “there shall not be a man of them” (i.e. of his descendants) “in the midst of you to see the good.”
because he Lord ] absent from LXX as in Jer 28:16 (see note there). Here they have instead the words “They shall not see,” originally no doubt a marg gloss on the “behold” earlier in the v.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 32. I will punish Shemaiah]
1. He shall have no posterity to succeed him.
2. His family, i.e., relations, c., shall not be found among those whom I shall bring back from captivity.
3. Nor shall he himself see the good that I shall do for my people.
And all this shall come upon him and his because he hath taught rebellion against the Lord. He excited the people to reject Jeremiah, and to receive the lying words of the false prophets and these led them to rebel.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: punishments of this life ordinarily are extended to the children of sinful parents, for the parents sake, who are punished in their children, being res parentum, a considerable part of their parents goods and portion. He shall not have a man to dwell among this people; he and his whole posterity shall be rooted out;
neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people; and neither he nor they shall live to the time of my peoples return from the captivity of Babylon.
Because he hath taught rebellion against the Lord; because by the falsehoods which he hath taught he hath been an instrument to make people disobey the commands of God. We had the same clause Jer 28:16, and such a kind of threatening we find Amo 7:17, denounced by that prophet against Amaziah the priest of Beth-el, forbidding him to prophesy at Beth-el, because it was the kings court and chapel. To obstruct the revelation of Gods will to people, or to publish what is contrary to it, to seduce people from believing it, or yielding obedience, are both crimes that have been and will be of fatal consequence to them and their families who are so hardy as to incur the guilt of them.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
32. not . . . a man to dwell(De 28:18).
not . . . behold the goodAshe despised the lawful time and wished to return before the time Godhad expressly announced, in just retribution he should not share inthe restoration from Babylon at all.
rebelliongoing againstGod’s revealed will as to the time (Jer28:16).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Therefore thus saith the Lord,…. Because he prophesied without being sent of God, and prophesied lies, by which the people were deceived:
behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed; not him only, but his posterity also: thus God sometimes visits the sins of parents on their children, they being, as it were, a part of themselves, and oftentimes partners with them in their iniquities:
he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; either at Babylon, or at Jerusalem, whither he had promised a speedy return:
neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the Lord; by returning them, after seventy years captivity, to their own land, and to the enjoyment of all their privileges, civil and religious:
because he hath taught rebellion against the Lord; or, “a departure n from [him]”; taught men to revolt from him, and not give heed to his prophets; to disbelieve what he said by them, concerning their continuance in Babylon; which is called a rebellion against him; and being so heinous a crime, deserved the punishment denounced on him and his; rebels and their offspring are punished among men.
n “apostasiam”, Junius Tremellius, Piscator “recessionem”, Schmidt.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
But we may deduce from this passage a useful doctrine, — that nothing is more pestiferous in a Church than for men to be led away by a false confidence or trust. For it is the foundation of all true religion to depend on the mouth or word of God; and it is also the foundation of our salvation. As, then, the salvation of men as well as true religion is founded on faith and the obedience of faith; so also when we are drawn away to some false trust, the whole of true religion falls to the ground, and at the same time every hope of salvation vanishes. This ought to be carefully observed, so that we may learn to embrace that doctrine which teaches us to trust in no other than in the only true God, and reject all those inventions which may lead us away from him, even in the least degree, so that we may not look around us nor be carried here and there.
For this reason, as I have said, the Prophet declares that Shemaiah would die childless, and be precluded from enjoying the favor which God had resolved and even promised to bestow on his people. And all this, as I have reminded you, was said for the sake of the people; for this prophecy did no good to Shemaiah nor to his posterity; but his punishment ought to have benefited the miserable exiles so as to lead them to repentance, however late it may have been. This is the import of the passage.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
32. I will punish Shemaiah, etc. He said that the day of deliverance was near, but it is so distant that his race will become extinct before it arrives. Rejecting God’s time, and setting up one of his own, he will see neither the one nor the other. The day of redemption will never dawn on him.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
REFLECTIONS
READER! after that you have made, under divine teaching, your most serious contemplations on the different subjects proposed, from true and false prophets brought before you in this Chapter; there is a train of thoughts opened to your view, in a portion of the contents of it, to which I would beg to direct more immediately, both your meditation and my own. I mean, in that unequalled grace and goodness manifested by the Lord, in the midst of all his people’s rebellion and sin, as set forth in this Chapter. After seventy years, saith the Lord, be accomplished, I will visit you, and perform my good word towards you. Reader! is not this the constant tenor and precious words of the whole charter of grace? What is God’s good word towards his people, but the word of God in Christ Jesus? What is the performance of Jehovah’s promise, but the promise of redemption in Christ, which he purposed in himself before the world began? And what is the whole coming of Jesus, to deliver from worse than Babylonish captivity, even from sin, death and hell; but to perform the mercy promised to our forefathers, and to remember his holy Covenant? Oh! what a thought is it, amidst all my rebellious ways, and after all my unworthy views of divine goodness, that his thoughts are not our thoughts, nor his ways our ways. Jesus saith, and God the Father saith, and let me never forget the gracious declarations: I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord: thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end! Do Lord! I would say, as thou hast said. Help my soul to pray to thee, and to seek for thee, as for hidden treasure, with my whole heart, and with my whole soul. And do thou Lord, gather thy Church, thy redeemed, thy people, from all places whither they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day; yea Lord, bring them all home to thy flock, and manifest that thou art their God, and that they are thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture. Amen.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Jer 29:32 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.
Ver. 32. Behold, I will punish Shemaiah, and his seed. ] As being part of his goods, and walking likely in his evil ways.
He shall not have a man to dwell among this people,
Neither shall he see the good.
Because he hath taught rebellion against the Lord.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
rebellion, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deu 13:5). App-92.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
punish: Jer 20:6, Exo 20:5, Num 16:27-33, Jos 7:24, Jos 7:25, 2Ki 5:27, Psa 109:8-15, Isa 14:20, Isa 14:22, Amo 7:17
he shall: Jer 22:30, Jer 35:19, 1Sa 2:30-34
behold: Jer 29:10-14, Jer 17:6, 2Ki 7:2, 2Ki 7:19, 2Ki 7:20
rebellion: Heb. revolt, Jer 28:16, *marg.
Reciprocal: Num 14:37 – died 1Sa 15:23 – rebellion 1Ki 22:25 – Behold 2Ch 18:24 – Behold Pro 19:9 – and Jer 1:3 – unto the end Jer 14:15 – Sword and famine shall not Jer 27:15 – ye Jer 28:15 – The Lord Jer 29:24 – Shemaiah Eze 13:2 – Hear Eze 13:9 – mine Eze 13:12 – Where Eze 13:22 – and strengthened Mal 2:9 – before Mat 7:15 – false Joh 10:1 – He 2Co 11:15 – whose 2Ti 3:9 – their 2Pe 2:1 – there were
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 29:32. Shemaiah was already in Babylon as a captive, hence some additional punishment was to be inflicted upon him. His family was to become extinct and he also was to die before the return of his brethren to their native land.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Jer 29:32. He shall not have a man to dwell among his people, &c. None of his posterity shall remain to see my people restored to their own land again. See Jer 29:11. Because he hath taught rebellion Or, prevarication, as Blaney translates , observing, It properly signifies a declining, or turning aside from the straight path, the path of truth and right. Here, and Jer 28:16, it means the presumption of uttering, as a revelation from God, what the man who uttered it knew to be not so.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
29:32 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man {p} to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.
(p) He and his seed will be destroyed so that none of them would see the blessing of this deliverance.