The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 26:11
This man is worthy to die ; literally, a sentence of death ( belongs ) to this man . read more
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Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 26:11
Jeremiah reckoned worthy of death. I. WHO THEY WERE THAT PRONOUNCED THIS JUDGMENT . There is already a statement in verse 8 that priests, prophets, and people had laid hold on Jeremiah with a threatening of death; but we must allow something for the feelings produced on the first reception of an exasperating and humiliating message. The case is worse when the priests and prophets, having had some time for consideration, however short, press upon the princes and people a... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 26:10
The princes of Judah - The priests could scourge a man etc., but could not then try him for his life, as the Sanhedrim subsequently did until the Romans deprived them of the power.The new gate - That built by Jotham 2 Kings 15:35, and probably a usual place for trials. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 26:11
This man is worthy to die - literally, A sentence of death is to this man, i. e., is his desert. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 26:8-10
Jeremiah 26:8-10. The priests and prophets took him, &c. As a disturber of the government, and a discourager of the people from defending their country against the enemy, in prophesying that the temple and city of Jerusalem should become a desolation. When the princes of Judah heard these things That is, the king’s counsellors, or chief officers of the state, who were also members of the great court of the sanhedrim, first instituted Numbers 11:16, and revived by Jehoshaphat, 2... read more
Donald C. Fleming
Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 26:1-24
26:1-34:22 PROPHECIES OF EXILE AND RETURNThe dangerous life of a prophet (26:1-24)Again Jeremiah went to the temple, where he could preach to people who came from all over Judah to worship. He stood in the open court and urged the worshippers to give up their sinful ways and return to God (26:1-3). If they refused, the temple would be demolished, as the tabernacle had been at Shiloh several centuries earlier (4-6; see notes on 7:1-15; cf. also 19:14-20:6).Religious officials and ordinary... read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 26:10
new gate. The Targum takes this to be the east gate. house. Some codices, with Aramaean, Syriac, and Vulgate, read this word "house" in the text. read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 26:11
This man is worthy to die = Death's judgment is for this man: "judgment" being put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of the Cause), for the effect of it: viz. the sentence of death (idiomatically rendered in Authorized Version.) Compare John 3:19 , where krisis is put for the act or process of judging. See App-85 . man. Hebrew. 'ish. App-14 . as = according as. read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 26:10
"And when the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king's house unto the house of Jehovah; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of Jehovah's house. Then spake the priests and prophets unto the princes and unto all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.""When the princes of Judah heard these things ..." (Jeremiah 26:10). This refers to their hearing of the commotion raised in the... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 26:10
The princes . The term will include the members of the various branches of the royal family, who acted as judges (see on Jeremiah 21:12 ), and the "elders," or heads of families (see Jeremiah 26:17 ). Without the presence of the former, Jeremiah could only have had a mock-trial. Came up , etc. (see on Jeremiah 22:1 ). Of the Lord's house ; better simply, of the Lord . The gate is the same which is referred at Jeremiah 20:2 . read more