Difference between revisions of "Jer 41:8"

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Slay.

Job 2:4; Ps 49:6-8; Prov 13:8; Matt 6:25; Matt 16:26; Mark 8:36; Mark 8:37; Phil 3:7-9

treasures.

These "treasures hid in the field" were doubtless laid up in subterranean pits, similar to the {mattamores} in Barbary, in which, Dr. Shaw informs us, they deposit the grain when winnowed; two or three hundred of them being sometimes together, and the smallest holding four hundred bushels.

The same mode of keeping corn prevails in Syria and the Holy Land.

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-the pit.
+Slay.
-This was probably a large reservoir for receiving rain water, which Asa had caused to be made in the midst of the
+Job 2:4; Ps 49:6-8; Prov 13:8; Matt 6:25; Matt 16:26; Mark 8:36; Mark 8:37; Phil 3:7-9
-city, in case of a siege.
-because of Gedaliah.  or, near Gedaliah.  Heb. by the hand,or the side of Gedaliah.  was it.
+treasures.
-Josh 10:16-18; Judg 6:2; 1Sam 13:6; 1Sam 14:11; 1Sam 14:22; 1Sam 24:3; 2Sam 17:9
+These "treasures hid in the field" were doubtless laid up in subterranean pits, similar to the {mattamores} in Barbary, in which, Dr. Shaw informs us, they deposit the grain when winnowed; two or three hundred of them being sometimes together, and the smallest holding four hundred bushels.
-Heb 11:38
-for fear.
+The same mode of keeping corn prevails in Syria and the Holy Land.
-Kgs 15:17-22; 2Chr 16:1-10