Jeremiah 26:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

When the nobles and other civil magistrates heard of the tumult, occasioned by Jeremiah's unpleasing prophecy, they came from the king's court, where the nobles and great officers in nations usually are, to the temple; and sat down at the entry of the new gate in the Lord's house. Some think it was called the new gate because repaired by Jotham, 2 Kings 15:35 2 Chronicles 27:3. Some say it was the eastern, others that it was the western gate. It was certainly the place where their sanhedrim, who were to judge of false prophets, were wont to sit.