Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 42:21

21 And now I have this day declared it to you , But ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me unto you .

I have been faithful to you, I went according [illegible: 1 letter]o your desire to enquire of God for you, I had his will revealed to me in your case, and now I have as faithfully told you what it is.

But ye have not obeyed. How did Ieremiah know this, for they had not yet declared their minds to him? he had either learned it from their discourses, during the ten dayes which God had made him to wait for the Revelation, or he had learned it from some contemptuous behaviour of them, when he delivered it, or (which is most probable) God had aforehand told it to him.