John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 37:16

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, etc.] Or, “into the house of the pit”f709; a dungeon, like a pit or ditch, dark, dirty, or dismal: and into the cabins; or “cells”f710; into a place more inward than the cells, as the Targum; into the innermost and worst part in all the prison, where a man could not well lie, sit, nor stand: and Jeremiah had remained there many days; in this very uncomfortable condition; very probably till the Chaldean army returned to Jerusalem, as he foretold it should.

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