[831] Jer. xxvii. 1-8, 12-18. On vv. 16-22 see the LXX.
[832] Here (Jer. xxviii. 11, and in xxxiv. 1, xxxix. 5) the name is written "Nebuchadnezzar"; everywhere else in Jeremiah it is "Nebuchadrezzar."
[833] Part of his dispute with Jeremiah turned on the recovery or non-recovery of the Temple vessels. Zedekiah is said to have given a set of silver vessels to replace the old ones (Baruch i. 8).
[834] Jer. xxix. 21-23.
[835] Jer. xxiii. 9-32.
[836] Jer. xxviii. 13-16, xxiii. 28.
[837] Jer. xxiii. 29.
[838] Ezek. xiii. 1-23.
[839] Ezek. xvii. 25.
[840] Josephus rightly attributes the unfortunate career of Zedekiah to the weakness with which he listened to evil counsellors, and to the insolent multitude.