Jeremiah 29:32 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: punishments of this life ordinarily are extended to the children of sinful parents, for the parents sake, who are punished in their children, being res parentum, a considerable part of their parents goods and portion. He shall not have a man to dwell among this people; he and his whole posterity shall be rooted out; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people; and neither he nor they shall live to the time of my people's return from the captivity of Babylon. Because he hath taught rebellion against the Lord; because by the falsehoods which he hath taught he hath been an instrument to make people disobey the commands of God. We had the same clause Jeremiah 28:16, and such a kind of threatening we find Amos 7:17, denounced by that prophet against Amaziah the priest of Beth-el, forbidding him to prophesy at Beth-el, because it was the king's court and chapel. To obstruct the revelation of God's will to people, or to publish what is contrary to it, to seduce people from believing it, or yielding obedience, are both crimes that have been and will be of fatal consequence to them and their families who are so hardy as to incur the guilt of them.