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Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 26:1-24

Jeremiah 26. Destruction of the Temple Foretold: Jeremiah’ s Peril (608 B.C.).— Jeremiah is told to proclaim in the Temple ( cf. Jeremiah 19:14; probably at some festival) a perilous message (“ keep not back a word” , Jeremiah 26:2), in the hope that it may produce a change ( Jeremiah 18:8). Unless the people obey Yahweh, He will destroy the Temple, like that of Shiloh ( Jeremiah 7:14) and make the city (an example of) a curse ( Jeremiah 29:22). The priests and prophets declare that Jeremiah... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 26:10

When the nobles and other civil magistrates heard of the tumult, occasioned by Jeremiah’s unpleasing prophecy, they came from the king’s court, where the nobles and great officers in nations usually are, to the temple; and sat down at the entry of the new gate in the Lord’s house. Some think it was called the new gate because repaired by Jotham, 2 Kings 15:35; 2 Chronicles 27:3. Some say it was the eastern, others that it was the western gate. It was certainly the place where their sanhedrim,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jeremiah 26:1-24

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. Chronology of the Chapter. About three years earlier than the prophecy of preceding chapter. Cf. chapter 7 with this, and it is evident that they are synchronous. Evidently this narrative records the dangers to which Jeremiah exposed himself by the delivery of that faithful protest against his nation’s iniquity. Jehoiakim had just ascended the throne, and forthwith inaugurated a course of public apostasy which called forth from Jeremiah this pungent and... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 26:1-24

Jeremiah 26:1-24 through 30.In the twenty-second chapter of Jeremiah the Lord had ordered Jeremiah to go to the king's house, Zedekiah, and prophesy unto him. So these prophecies were those that Jeremiah gave to Zedekiah who was the last of the kings of Israel prior to the Babylonian captivity. And as he is speaking there in Zedekiah's court, he is bringing up prophecies that the Lord had given him in previous years to other of the kings. And so as we get into chapter 26, as he is giving this... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 26:1-24

Jeremiah 26:1 . In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim. See the note on Jeremiah 26:3. Jeremiah 26:2 . Stand in the court of the Lord’s house. See the note on Jeremiah 19:4. The great court was the place where both men and women generally worshipped when they brought no sacrifice, according to Dr. Lightfoot. When they offered a sacrifice they were to bring it into the inner court, otherwise called the court of Israel, or of the priests, as the same learned author has observed in his... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Jeremiah 26:1-24

Jeremiah 26:1-24In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah. Afflictions, distresses, tumultsJehoiakim was, perhaps, the most despicable of the kings of Judah. Josephus says that he was unjust in disposition, an evil-doer; neither pious towards God nor just towards men. Something of this may have been due to the influence of his wife, Nehushta, whose father, Elnathan, was an accomplice in the royal murder of Urijah. Jeremiah appears to have been constantly in conflict... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Jeremiah 26:8-16

Jeremiah 26:8-16When Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him, the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.The characteristics of a true prophetI. The true prophet has a stern message to deliver (4-7). If they ally themselves with Egypt, the Temple will be made desolate, as Shiloh had been destroyed by the Assyrians at the deportation of Israel after the fall of Samaria, 710 b.c. Jerusalem will become a curse to all nations (will be recognised by all... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 26:10

Jer 26:10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king’s house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD’S [house]. Ver. 10. When the princes of Judah heard those things. ] Pii viri sunt quibus doluit populi impietas; good men they were, saith Oecolampadius. They might be so, some of them at least; and it was well done of them here to pass an impartial sentence for the innocent prophet against the priests and people.... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Jeremiah 26:10

the princes: Jeremiah 26:16, Jeremiah 26:17, Jeremiah 26:24, Jeremiah 34:19, Jeremiah 36:12-Psalms :, Jeremiah 36:25, Jeremiah 37:14-Nehemiah :, Jeremiah 38:4-Joshua :, Ezekiel 22:6, Ezekiel 22:27 in the entry: or, at the door the new: Jeremiah 36:10, 2 Kings 15:35 Reciprocal: 2 Kings 11:5 - the watch Ezra 9:1 - the princes Jeremiah 34:10 - when Jeremiah 35:4 - the princes Ezekiel 9:2 - the higher read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Jeremiah 26:10

When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house.When — When the nobles, and other civil magistrates, heard of the tumult, they came from the king's court, where the nobles and great officers of nations usually are, to the temple.At the entry — It was the place where their sanhedrim, who were to judge of false prophets, were wont to sit. read more

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