[16] 2 Kings xv. 35.
[17] Mark xiv. 58.
[18] Acts vi. 13, 14, vii. 48.
[19] 2 Kings xviii. 4, xxiii.; Isa. xxxvi. 7.
[20] vii. 4.
[21] Micah iii. 12. As the quotation exactly agrees with the verse in our extant Book of Micah, we may suppose that the elders were acquainted with his prophecies in writing.
[22] Psalm xxxi. 13-15, 18, 19. The Psalm is sometimes ascribed to Jeremiah, because it can be so readily applied to this incident. The reader will recognise his characteristic phrase "Terror on every side" (Magor-missabib).
[23] This incident cannot be part of the speech of the elders; it would only have told against the point they were trying to make. The various phases—prophesy, persecution, flight, capture, and execution—must have taken some time, and can scarcely have preceded Jeremiah's utterance "at the beginning of the reign of King Jehoiakim."
[24] Assuming his sympathy with Deuteronomy.
[25] 2 Tim. iv. 3.