ဂျာမနီယာ 40:10

Myanmar Judson Bible

10 ငါမူကား၊ လာလတံ့သော ခါလဒဲလူတို့စကားကို နားထောင်ခြင်းငှါ မိဇပါမြို့မှာနေမည်။ သင်တို့မူကား၊ စပျစ်ရည်ကို၎င်း၊ နွေကာလအသီးကို၎င်း၊ ဆီကို၎င်း သိမ်း၍အိုး၌သိုထားကြလော့။ ယခု ဝင်ပြန်သောမြို့ရွာ တို့၌နေကြလော့ဟူ၍၊ ထိုသူတို့အား သစ္စာပြုလေ၏။

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

serve: Heb. stand before, Jeremiah 35:19, Deuteronomy 1:38, Proverbs 22:29, Luke 21:36

gather: Jeremiah 39:10

summer: Jeremiah 40:12, Jeremiah 48:32, 2 Samuel 16:1, Isaiah 16:9, Micah 7:1

Reciprocal: Joshua 11:3 - land 1 Kings 15:22 - Mizpah 2 Kings 25:24 - sware to them Ecclesiastes 5:9 - the profit Amos 8:2 - A basket

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the Chaldeans that come unto us,.... Here he urges his own example, as before their welfare, to engage them to dwell in the land, and serve the Chaldeans; this was what he had determined to do, and had fixed upon Mizpah, a frontier town, and in the way to Babylon, as a proper seat of residence for him, as a governor under the king of Babylon: "to serve the Chaldeans"; or "to stand before them" u; that should come to him as messengers from the king of Babylon, to receive tribute or bring orders to him; all which he would take care of, as well as be an advocate for the Jews, and plead on their behalf, for favours to be bestowed on them; and particularly for these generals and their forces, that they might be pardoned, and dwell safely in the land: he suggests, that they need not trouble themselves about these things; all affairs of this kind he would take upon himself to transact; so that they would have nothing to fear, nor anything to do, but as follows:

but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil; that is, grapes to make wine of, and olives to make oil of, and summer fruits, such as figs and apples. The Targum interprets it lumps of figs; and so Jarchi; for fruits of trees are meant, and not fruits of the earth, as corn and wheat; for both barley and wheat harvests were over before this time; the city being taken in July, and, a month after that, Nebuzaradan came and carried off the captives, and left the poor with Gedaliah, appointed governor. It may be rendered, "autumnal fruits" w; for the word signifies autumn as well as summer;

and put [them] in your vessels; casks, bottles, and such like vessels, suitable to the things mentioned, and which were in common use, in order to be laid up for winter; and as they used to do in times of peace, not fearing any enemy to come and take them from them:

and dwell in your cities which ye have taken; not by force of arms, or as they pleased; but which they had held in possession formerly as the inheritances of their families, and which they had lately reassumed, or might however enter upon the quiet possession of.

u לעמד לפני "ut stem coram", Vatablus, Pagninus; "ad standum coram", Schmidt. w וקיץ "et autumni fructus", Schmidt; "fructus autumnales", Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To serve the Chaldeans - literally, as margin; to be their minister and lieutenant. Gedaliah supposed that officers of high rank would come from time to time from Babylon to look after the king’s interests. But whatever was ordered would be done through him, as being the prime minister.

Gather ye wine - As Jerusalem was captured in the fifth month, August, it would now be autumn, and there would be fruit upon the trees, enough to maintain the scanty population during the winter.

Taken - Or, seized. Every captain had probably occupied some place by force as his head quarters, and Gedaliah bids them retain them. He frankly accepts the whole existing state of things, as a necessary step toward re-establishing confidence.