Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
thee . . . in the stead of Jehoiada—Zephaniah's promotion as second priest, owing to Jehoiada's being then in exile, was unexpected. Shemaiah thus accuses him of ingratitude towards God, who had so highly exalted him before his regular time.
ye should be officers . . . for every man—Ye should, as bearing rule in the temple (see on Jeremiah 20:1), apprehend every false prophet like Jeremiah.
mad—Inspired prophets were often so called by the ungodly (II Kings 9:11; Acts 26:24; Acts 2:13, Acts 2:15, Acts 2:17-18). Jeremiah is in this a type of Christ, against whom the same charge was brought (John 10:20).
prison—rather, "the stocks" (see on Jeremiah 20:2).
stocks—from a root, "to confine"; hence rather, "a narrow dungeon." According to Deuteronomy 17:8-9, the priest was judge in such cases, but had no right to put into the stocks; this right he had assumed to himself in the troubled state of the times.
A second communication which Jeremiah sent to Babylon, after the messenger who carried his first letter had brought a letter from the false prophet Shemaiah to Zephaniah, etc., condemning Jeremiah and reproving the authorities for not having apprehended him.
Nehelamite—a name derived either from his father or from a place: alluding at the same time to the Hebrew meaning, "a dreamer" (compare Jeremiah 29:8).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 29:26:
2 Kings 9:11
Jeremiah 5:31
Jeremiah 20:2
Jeremiah 29:29
Ezekiel 40:5
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