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…

This captivity is long ... —As the italics show, there is no word corresponding to “captivity” in the Hebrew, and some commentator…

The crime ascribed to Jeremiah was that he rendered the captives indifferent, so that they cast off all hope of deliverance and disregarded their o…

For therefore he sent unto us [in] Babylon, saying That is, Jeremiah the prophet; and this was the reason, because his mo…

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…