He began to purge Judah - Jeremiah’s first prophecies (Jeremiah 2–3) appear to have been coincident with Josiah’s earlier effort…

For. — Now.

In the eighth year. —The specifications of time in this verse are peculiar to the chr…

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young ,
&c.] Being in the sixteenth year of his age; thoug…

Since the years of infancy cannot be useful to our fellow creatures, our earliest youth should be dedicated to God, so that we may not waste any of…