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The ninth month answers to our December, and the fast was probably in commemoration of the capture of Jerusalem by the Chaldaeans in the previous y…

It came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim. —The Septuagint gives “the eighth year,” but the Hebrew text gives the mu…

A fuller explanation is added here; for the Prophet relates nothing new, but, as is common in Hebrew, he expresses at length what he had previously…

And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month…

Shows of piety and devotion may be found even among those who, though they keep up forms of godliness, are strangers and enemies to its power.
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The declaration is given to the people. The details are as follows:
First, the command to announce is given, as Jeremiah…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes