Zedekiah was restless under the Babylonian yoke, and the false prophets found him all too ready to listen. He is addressed in the plural because hi…

He confirms what he had said: that they had not been sent by God. The object is to show the Jews that they were not to receive thoughtlessly everyt…

For I have not sent them, says the Lord
See (Jeremiah 23:21) ; yet they prophesy a lie in my name; to de…

Jeremiah persuades the king of Judah to surrender to the king of Babylon. Is it their wisdom to submit to the heavy iron yoke of a cruel tyrant, to…

1. Because those messengers might ask why he did not say such things to his own people who were intent on rebellion, he responds that he has…