The priests and the prophets. — The mention of the latter is significant. Jeremiah had to separate himself from both the orders to which he belonged, in the one case, by birth, in the other, by a special vocation. His bitterest foes were found among those who claimed to speak as he did, in the name of the Lord, but who tuned their voice according to the time, and prophesied deceits. See Notes on Jeremiah 23:9-40.
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Jeremiah 26:7
7 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.