The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 27:12-15

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

But the warnings of Jeremiah were not confined, far from it, to the neighboring kings. Zedekiah had received a precisely similar message. Bring your necks. The plural is used, for Zedekiah was but an individual among a number of much more vigorous personalities (comp.

on Jeremiah 22:2).

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