Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
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Gill's Exposition
Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah,.... For attempting to depart the city, and go off to the Chaldeans, as Irijah had suggested to them, and to whom they hearkened; and perhaps would not…
Barnes' Notes
The house - Probably the official residence of the secretary of state.
We have here a further account concerning Jeremiah, who relates more passages concerning himself than any other of the prophets; for the histories of the lives and sufferings of God's ministers have…
Cambridge Bible
the princes were wroth with Jeremiah These were not the princes who had looked upon the prophet with favour in the reign of Jehoiakim (Jer 26:16; Jer 36:19). Those were now no doubt exiles, and these…
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