[10] The expression is curious; it usually means all the cities of Judah, except Jerusalem; the LXX. reading varies between "all the Jews" and "all Judah."
[11] See especially the exposition of chaps. vii.-x., which are often supposed to be a reproduction of Jeremiah's utterance on this occasion.
[12] The Hebrew apparently implies that the discourse was a repetition of former prophecies.
[13] vii. 12-14. Even if chaps. vii.-x. are not a report of Jeremiah's discourse on this occasion, the few lines in xxvi. are evidently a mere summary, and vii. will best indicate the substance of his utterance. The verses quoted occur towards the beginning of vii.-x., but from the emphatic reference to Shiloh in the brief abstract in xxvi., Jeremiah must have dwelt on this topic, and the fact that the outburst followed his conclusion suggests that he reserved this subject for his peroration.
[14] v. 31.
[15] Acts xxi. 27-30.
[16] 2 Kings xv. 35.
[17] Mark xiv. 58.
[18] Acts vi. 13, 14, vii. 48.
[19] 2 Kings xviii. 4, xxiii.; Isa. xxxvi. 7.
[20] vii. 4.
[21] Micah iii. 12. As the quotation exactly agrees with the verse in our extant Book of Micah, we may suppose that the elders were acquainted with his prophecies in writing.
[22] Psalm xxxi. 13-15, 18, 19. The Psalm is sometimes ascribed to Jeremiah, because it can be so readily applied to this incident. The reader will recognise his characteristic phrase "Terror on every side" (Magor-missabib).
[23] This incident cannot be part of the speech of the elders; it would only have told against the point they were trying to make. The various phases--prophesy, persecution, flight, capture, and execution--must have taken some time, and can scarcely have preceded Jeremiah's utterance "at the beginning of the reign of King Jehoiakim."
[24] Assuming his sympathy with Deuteronomy.
[25] 2 Tim. iv. 3.