John Trapp on Jeremiah 40:1

CHAP. XL.

Ver. 1. THe Word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah] This word what it was, Jeremy will ſhew, chap. 42.7. after the circumſtances of his enlargement related, and other matters of ſtory premiſed. Vatablus rendereth it, Actio quam geſſit Dominus cum Jeremia.

After that Nebuzaradan—had let him go from Ramah] Which was the place of Rendevouz, whether Jeremy was alſo brought (with the reſt of the Captives) and manicled alſo (as he was found in the court of the priſon) but ſoon ſet free, and diſmiſſed. A difference ſhall one day (at that great day eſpecially) be diſcerned between the righteous and the wicked: betwixt him that ſerveth God, and him that ſerveth him not, Mal. 3. ult. Jeremy is here, by ſome overſight of the officers (contrary to Nebuchadnezzars command, chap. 39.11, 14. but not without a ſpecial providence of God) brought bound to Ramah, ad opprobrium Gentis, & in gloriam ſuam: that the Jews, now captives, and to be carried to Babylon, might ſee their madneſſe in perſecuting ſo true a Prophet, and perſevering in their ſinful practices, to their ſo utter undoing, againſt all admonition.