Jeremiah seems here indeed to undertake the office of a historian rather than that of a Prophet; but he seals his previous prophecies and, at the s…

[And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month ,
&c.] The month Tammuz, which answers to part of June, …

Jerusalem was so strong, that the inhabitants believed the enemy could never enter it. But sin provoked God to withdraw his protection, and then it…

This section describes the ordering of the remnant of the people after they were taken captive. It is divided into three parts:

1. The ca…