A curse - There is a play on words here, which was probably the reason that the death of these men became a proverb. One of them was named B…

Ahab the son of Kolaiah ... —We know nothing, beyond what is here recorded, of either of these prophets. They would seem …

And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of
Judah which [are] in Babylon…

Jeremiah foretells judgments upon the false prophets, who deceived the Jews in Babylon. Lying was bad; lying to the people of the Lord, to delude t…

Here, the prophet condemns the false prophets themselves. This condemnation is directed first against certain advocates of falsehood, and second, a…