Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 27:1

1 IN the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying ,

Here is a difficulty ariseth from this verse, which there have been various attempts to resolve, and whether any hath been fully satisfactory I doubt. It is said this word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in the beginning of the reign of Jehoiachim, and ver. 3. the Prophet is bid to send the bonds and yokes, by the hand of the Messengers which came to Hierusalem unto Zedekia[illegible: 1 letter] King of Judah, who began not to reign till about eleven years after the beginning of the Reign of Jehoiachim. To solve this difficulty, 1 Some think Jehoiachim was a common name to all the sons of Josiah and that Zedekiah is here called Jehoiakim, but I see no foundation for that conjecture from Holy Writ. 2 Others think it is an error in those that copied out the Prophesies, but it is dangerous to admit that. 3 Others think, that the Prophesie came in the beginning of the Reign of Jehoiachim, but was to be concealed until the Reign of Hezekiah. 4 I had rather agree with those who think that this command came to the Prophet first in the time of Jehoiachim, but was to be repeated by the Prophet often, and accordingly was so until, and in the time of Z[illegible: 1 letter]dekiah; not that he alwayes went about with Bonds and Yokes about his neck, but that by times, he put them on, and went about with them, as a Type of that Bondage, which the Jews were suddenly to indure.