[722] Jer. vii. 21; Ewald; and Cheyne, l.c. 120. So the Jews seem to have understood it, for they appoint this passage to be read on the Haphtara after the Parashah about sacrifices from Leviticus.
[723] Jer, vii. 22, 23. This alone would show that Jeremiah did not (as earlier critics thought) write "Deuteronomy," in spite of the numerous close resemblances in phraseology. Thus, Jeremiah often denounces the priests (i. 18, ii. 8-26, iv. 9, v. 31, viii. 1, xiii. 13, xxxii. 32). Cheyne, p. 82.
[724] Mic. iii. 11.
[725] Jer. vii. 4, 8-15.
[726] Jer. xxxi. 31, 32.
[727] Jer. xxii. 15, 16.
[728] He was forced to desist by a fearful mortality among the labourers.
[729] Circ. b.c. 611-605. Herod., ii. 158, 159, iv. 42. Psamatik, the father of Necho, was perhaps a Lybian. He established his sway over all Egypt displacing the Assyrians.
[730] Antt., X. v. 1.
[731] Herod., ii. 158. His father Psamatik had left him an adequate army of natives and mercenaries.