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which $2127 had ;ome Authority under Zedehiah, the ſame with Aoi 1Chroz, 8.5. Others think it was a Name of Oftice, ind fienificd Lo { chanberlein s bur the heſt Interprexers fee no realon 10 vary from our Tranſlation,rhe ſence of which 15 that he was a Man of a moderate quiet Temper, that periwaded to Peace.
50 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that ſhould come upon Babylon, ever all theſe words 7/2! 2-6 Written again!t Babylon.
51 And Jeremiah faid ro Seraiah, When thou comelt to Babylon, and ſhalr ſee, and ſhalt read all theſe words 7. |
1 Nor to the Cha!d2ans, nor poſtibly 15 it to be underſtood of a mcer private reading of them to himſelf, but to the Fes, that were in Baby/0n, acquainting them with what God had ſpoken a- onnit B.:5y/on by the Prophet,
52> Then ſhaltthon ſay, O LORD, thou haſt ſpo- ken avainlt this place to cut it off; that none ſhall re- main in it, neither man nor bealt,bur that ir ſhall be - deſolate tor ever o. re j 0-74 gu h2s 5 thou helieveſt what thou haſt read to 47/9.4:103. 1,e what ſhall moſt certainly come to paſs, by ſpeaking words to eli1s Sence.
63 And it ſhall be when thou haſt made an end of -eading this hook, rþat thou ſhalt bind * a ſtone to 1t and ca{t it into the midit of Euphrates.
5.4 And thou ſhalt ſay, Thus ſhall Babylon fink, and ſhall nor riſe from the evil that I will bring, upon her p: and they ſhall be weary 9. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah ». ;
2 Tr hath been often ſaid that Euphrates was that great River which ran by the Walls of Baly/oz 3 into this S:razah 15 com- manded by F#1:miah ro throw this Roll of Prophecy againſt B.0y- ion, ſymbollically ro reach the Fews, thar ccording rothe Tenor of is Prophecy the time ſhall come afrer ſome years, When 8.- 5y/0n ſhould be deſtroyed never to riſe again-10 any great vie, or degree of ſplendor, no more than that Roll with the Stone tied to it ſhould riſe from the bottom of Euphrates. q Some read tnough they weary themſelves, thar 1s, to do whart they can, or (as 1t 15 here) and they ſhall be weary with that weighr of Judgment which ſhall be upon them, » Either the words of Feremy relating ro Baby{3n reach thus far, or all the words of Feremah remaiming on ſacred Record {for it 1s rhought that the n: xt Chapter was Ia- ther penned by ſome other Holy Man.) Or (which ſeemerh the beſt) the Propherical words of Jeremiah, for the marter of the nexc Chapres is Hiſtorical, and the Book of Lamentations is nor Prophetical 3 as to the manner of 1t, tho" there be 1n ut three or four Propherical Paflages, Lun. 4. 21, 22, oc,
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A Renting of 4; Reign of Zedekiah : Of the Sirge, Taking, and D: ris of Jerutater: i4ith the Cauſes thereof, and what further baypenes there, 1,=-— 39. Evil-merodach adtanceth Tchoichin, 31, -— 34.
i 7 Edekiah was one and twenty years old when z Hoh, he + began toreian, and he reigned eleven reigu's. years 12 Jernſalem 3 and his mothers name was Hamu- : tal, che Canghrer of Jeremiah of Libnah.
> And he did chat which wa evil in the ſight of the LORD according to all that Jehotakim had done.
3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to maſin Jeruſalem and Judah, till he had caſt them v1 from his preſence, that Zedekahrebelled againſt the king of Babylon 4,
Itis generally thought that what we have 14 this Chapter was nor penned by the Prophet F*r:11ia/), who it 15 nor probable would have to largely repeated what he had related before Chap. 3 9.and could not Hiſtorically relate what happened after his time as tome things did which are mentzoned rowards the end of the Chapter, from :r.31. rothe end. They therefore rather think 1t penned by ſome or other of choſe in Babylon, and pur 1n here as a Preface to rhe Book of Lomeatations, What we havein the three firſt Ver- ſes 15 entirely raken out of 2 Kings 24. 18, 19, 20, See the Notes rhere.