Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 39:18

18 For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword , but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee , because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD .

For God would deliver him, so as he should not die by the Sword.

But how little else soever he saved, he should save his Life,

because he had put his trust in God, not fearing the wrath of men in the doing of what was his duty. We read no more in Holy Writ of this man, and so cannot tell how otherwise God dealt with him; only may be assured that he was not slain by the Chaldeans. And from this we may observe, 1 How kind God hath alwayes declared himself to those who have shewed the least kindness, to those that have been his true and faithful Ministers. 2 That the root of such good works as God rewardeth must be Faith, a trusting in the Lord. 3 That those who do good works out of a principle of Faith, may yet be incumbred with slavish fears.

Marginal references: chap. 21.9. and 45.5.