[851] Jer. xxi. 1-10, xxxvii. 1-17. Josephus says that Pharaoh was defeated (Antt., X. vii. 3). Jeremiah merely says that he and his army returned to their own land.
[852] Homer, Iliad, i. 106-109.
[853] But it must not be forgotten that Jer. xxxi. 1-34 is so hopeful that it has been called "the Gospel before Christ."
[854] Jer. vi. 14, viii. 11; Ezek. xiii. 10.
[855] W. R. Smith, "Prophets" (Enc. Brit.).
[856] Jer. xxxvii, 11-15.
[857] Jer xxxviii. 5. The Jewish aristocracy consisted, says Grätz, of three classes: the benî hammelech, or "king's sons"—i.e., princes of the blood-royal; the roshî aboth, "heads of the fathers," or zekenîm, "elders"; and the abhodî hammelech, "king's servants," or "courtiers" (ii. 446).
[858] Lam. v. 4.
[859] Jer. xxxvii. 21, xxxviii. 9, lii. 6.
[860] Lam. iv. 7, 8.