Come – Or, have come. The ambassadors of these five kings had probably come to Jerusalem to consult about forming a league to throw off the …

And send them to the king of Edom. — The princes who are named had, as the context shows, sent their ambassadors to Zedek…

Jeremiah prefaces this prediction by saying that it was delivered to him at the beginning of Jehoiakim’s reign. But this beginning, as we have said…

And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king…

Jeremiah is to prepare a sign that all the neighbouring countries would be made subject to the king of Babylon. God asserts his right to dispose of…

1. Here, after presenting a clear title, the prophet refutes the false comfort offered by the prophets. He does this first in a general way,…