A narrative showing the effects of Jeremiah’s letter. Shemaiah the leader of the false prophets wrote to Zephaniah, urging him to restrain the prop…

Because thou hast sent letters in thy name ... —The letters were probably sent through the envoys named …

Here Jeremiah prophesies concerning a third person, who had written a letter to the priests and to the whole people against Jeremiah himself, and h…

Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, &c.] (See Gill on Jeremiah 29:4); beca…

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 speaks out against an attacker of the truth. This attacker, a false prophet who promised the people that liberation was near, was…