[26] See Cheyne, Giesebrecht, Orelli, etc.
[27] R.V. "against." The Hebrew is ambiguous.
[28] So Septuagint. The Hebrew text has Israel, which is a less accurate description of the prophecies, and is less relevant to this particular occasion.
[29] _Jeremiah_ (Men of the Bible), p. 132.
[30] Cf. Chap. V. on "Baruch."
[31] Verses 5-8 seem to be a brief alternative account to 9-26.
[32] 1 Chron. xx. i.
[33] _'ĀCÛR_: A.V., R.V., "shut up"; R.V. margin, "restrained." The term is used in xxxiii. 1, xxxix. 15, in the sense of "imprisoned," but here Jeremiah appears to be at liberty. The phrase _'ĀC̦ÛR W ĀZÛBH_, A.V. "shut up or left" (Deut. xxxii. 36, etc.), has been understood, those under the restraints imposed upon ceremonial uncleanness and those free from these restraints, _i.e._ everybody; the same meaning has been given to _'ĀC̦ÛR_ here.
[34] xxvi. 2.
[35] So Cheyne; the Hebrew does not make it clear whether the title "scribe" refers to the father or the son. Giesebrecht understands it of Shaphan, who appears as scribe in 2 Kings xxii. 8. He points out that in verse 20 Elishama is called the scribe, but we cannot assume that the title was limited to a single officer of state.
[36] Cf. xxvi. 10.
[37] Isa. lviii. 3-8.
[38] Micah vi. 6-8.
[39] So Orelli, _in loco_.
[40] Hebrew text "to Baruch," which LXX. omits.
[41] In verse 18 the word "with ink" is not in the LXX., and may be an accidental repetition of the similar word for "his mouth."
[42] The A.V. and R.V. "all the words" is misleading: it should rather be "everything"; the princes did not recite all the contents of the roll.
[43] The English tenses "cut," "cast," are ambiguous, but the Hebrew implies that the "cutting" and "casting on the fire" were repeated again and again.
[44] One is called Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech (A.V.), or "the king's son" (R.V.); if the latter is correct we must understand merely a prince of the blood-royal and not a son of Jehoiakim, who was only thirty.
[45] For verses 29-31 see Chap. VI., where they are dealt with in connection with xxii. 13-19.
[46] The supposition that Jeremiah had written notes of previous prophecies is not an impossible one, but it is a pure conjecture.
[47] Cf. Orelli, _in loco_.