Jeremiah 27:1

In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah,.... This is the same date with the prophecy of the preceding chapter and some think that this verse should conclude that, as…

Of Jehoiakim - Really, of Zedekiah, as the Syriac reads (see Jer 27:3). In the Septuagint the verse is missing. Some scribe has confused the title of this chapter with that of Jer. 26.

Some difficulty occurs in the date of this prophecy. This word is said to come to Jeremiah in the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim (Jer 27:1), and yet the messengers, to whom he is to deliver the…

In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim It is clear from Jer 27:27; Jer 27:27; Jer 27:27that for Jehoiakimwe must read (with mg.) Zedekiah(so Syr.). The LXX omit the verse. It is a later insertion…