Verse 4
4. The sons of Hanan were probably not his children, but his followers, and so we seem to have suggested a religious sect, though of their principles and history we know nothing.
A man of God This appellation belongs probably to Hanan, and not to Igdaliah, this being the usual mode of construing this Hebrew idiom.
Chamber of the princes Probably an office or council-room where public business was attended to. Jeremiah 26:10, seems to belong with this verse.
Keeper of the door Literally, of the threshold; as Keil suggests, “overseer of the watchmen of the temple gates,” of which, according to Jeremiah 52:24, and 2 Kings 25:18, there were three, who are there mentioned along with the high priest and his substitute. Maaseiah is probably the same whose son Zephaniah was “priest of the repetition,” or second priest. Jeremiah 52:24.
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