Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 26:19

19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death ? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD ? and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them ? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls .

The Interrogation here hath the force of a Negation; that is, Hezekiah and the Sanhedrim in his time did not go about to call him in question for his life, nor put him to death. His prophesie had a quite contrary effect on him.

It begat in him an aw and dread of that God, in whose name the Prophet spake, and quickened him to apply himself to God by earnest prayer, and the course he took had a very good issue.

The Lord did not do what he threatned to do.

Now, if we should take a quite contrary course, and put this man to death, we should do contrary to what that good Prince did (and that with good success) do our selves no good, but procure great evil against our Souls; that is against our selves both Bodies and Souls strictly taken.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 span].