The charge against Jeremiah was that of prophesying falsely, for which the penalty was death (Deuteronomy 18:20). They assumed that it …

Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the Lord ...? —The threat that the house in which they gloried should be like the old sanc…

Here the cause of Jeremiah’s condemnation is also added: that he had dared to threaten the holy city and the Temple with such severity. They did no…

Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord
Made use of his name in declaring a falsehood, as they would have it…

The priests and prophets charged Jeremiah as deserving death, and bore false witness against him. The elders of Israel came to inquire into this ma…

Here, he speaks of the persecution, making four points about it.

1. The hearing of the preaching: and the priests heard. …