A great pestilence - As the result of the excessive crowding of men and animals in a confined space with all sanitary regulations utterly ne…

They shall die of a great pestilence. —This was undoubtedly, as in other instances (Thucydides 2.52), the natural consequ…

Jeremiah continues with the same message: that God had resolved to destroy Jerusalem and the people, at least for a time. But he points out here wh…

And I will smite the inhabitants of this city
With one or other of his arrows after mentioned: or, "them that abide …

When the siege had begun, Zedekiah sent to ask Jeremiah concerning the event. In times of distress and danger, people often seek those to counsel a…

Here the threat is given against the kings, who hold the highest rank in secular power. They will be punished in two ways:

1. First, in t…