Jeremiah 42:5

Then they said to Jeremiah, the Lord be a true and faithful witness between us,.... Which is the form of an oath; a solemn appeal to God, as a witness to what they were about to say, and to the…

Between us - Against us, as in Jer 42:19 (margin.) According to all things - literally, “according to the whole word as to which Yahweh thy God shall send thee to us.”

We have reason to wonder how Jeremiah the prophet escaped the sword of Ishmael; it seems he did escape, and it was not the first time that the Lord hid him. It is strange also that in these violent…

amongst better, as mg. against, i.e. to bear witness and punish us if we fail to do our part as we now promise.

from all the nations These words, as implying a much wider dispersion of inhabitants of…