Let us destroy — We have no other mention of this conspiracy, but it is plain both from this verse, and what follows, that the men of Anathoth (which was Jeremiah's own town) were offended at his prophesying, and had conspired to kill him. Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof — Let us not only put an end to his prophesying, but to his life.
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Jeremiah 11:19
19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the treee with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.