Jeremiah 11:18

But I was like a lamb, or an ox,.... The word "alluph", rendered an ox, is by many considered as an adjective to the word lamb (n); since the disjunctive particle or is not in the next; and is…

Rather, “gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it.” Jeremiah shows Jer 11:18-23, that the general conspiracy of the people against Yahweh and the special plot against himself was revealed to him by God.

The prophet Jeremiah has much in his writings concerning himself, much more than Isaiah had, the times he lived in being very troublesome. Here we have (as it should seem) the beginning of his…

See summary at commencement of section, and for the date of Jer 11:18 to Jer 12:6 see introd. notes on the section. The abruptness with which the mention of the plots against Jeremiah is here…