A variety of methods is tried, and every stone turned, to awaken the Jews to a sense of their sin and to bring them to repentance and reformation. The scope and tendency of many of the prophet’s sermons was to frighten them out of their disobedience, by setting before them what would be the end…

This chapter is of an earlier date than many of those before; for what is contained in it was said and done in the days of Jehoiakim ; but then it must be in the latter part of his reign, for it was after the king of Babylon with his army came up into the land , which seems to refer to the invasion…

The trial of the Rechabites’ constancy was intended but for a sign; now here we have the application of it. I. The Rechabites’ observance of their father’s charge to them is made use of as an aggravation of the disobedience of the Jews to God. Let them see it and be ashamed.