But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.
Baruch - he being the younger, spake out the revelations which he received from Jeremiah more vehemently. From this cause, and from their knowing that he was in favour with the Chaldeans, arose their suspicion of him. Their perverse fickleness was astonishing. In Jeremiah 42:1-22 they acknowledged the trustworthiness of Jeremiah, of which they had for so long so many proofs: yet here they accuse him of a lie. The mind of the unregenerate man is full of deceits.