This house shall be like Shiloh] Because of Gods promise concerning the Temple, that he would ever abide there, Psalms 132:14. they prsumed that it could never perish; and accounted all preaching, that looked that way, blasphemous, Matthew 26:61. Acts 6:13. not considering, that the promise made as concerning the Temple, was but conditionall, Chap. 5. 7. 2 Chron. 7. 19,—22. and belonged principally to the Church, whereof the Temple was a type, Matthew 16:18.
this citie shall be desolate] Chap. 4. 7, 27, 29. & 34. 22.
all the people were gathered against Jeremiah] Or, to Jeremiah: about him, to hear him: that which especially vexed the priests, to see the people so flock about him. Vers. 16.