Jeremiah 29:24 - Exposition

To Shemaiah ; or, of , concerning (as the same preposition is rendered in Jeremiah 29:16 , Jeremiah 29:21 , Jeremiah 29:31 ). The oracle itself speaks of Shemaiah in the third person ( Jeremiah 29:31 , Jeremiah 29:32 ). The Authorized Version, however, can be defended by its accordance with Jeremiah 29:25 . The Nehelamite . This is evidently a patronymic, but whether of the family or the locality of the bearer cannot be decided. The analogy of "Jeremiah of Anathoth" (verse 27), however, favors the view that it is local.