[821] 2 Chron. xxxvi. 14-21; Stanley, ii. 528; Milman, i. 394.
[822] Shaphan's other sons, Gemariah, Ahikam, Elasah, and his grandson Gedaliah, were friends of Jeremiah.
[823] Ezek. viii. 17. The allusion seems to be to a custom like that of the Parsees, who hold a branch of tamarisk or pomegranate twigs (called barsom) before their mouths when they adore the sacred fire. Strabo, xv. 732; Spiegel, Zendavesta, ii., p. lxviii; Eran. Alterthumsk., iii. 571 (Orelli, ad loc.). Lightfoot explains it, "add fuel to their wrath."
[824] Ezek. xvi. 15-34.
[825] Jer. vii. 4, 21-28, viii. 8, xxiii. 31-33, xxxi. 33, 34.
[826] Jer. iii. 15, 16.
[827] Jer. xxvii. 3.
[828] Herod., ii. 161.
[829] Psammis, the son of Necho, only reigned six years; Hophrah (b.c. 594) was his son.
[830] The LXX. calls him "the false prophet."