Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 46:1

1 THE word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles .

This verse contains the Title to all the ensuing discourses of this Prophet, for though there be some particular verses in these chapters that relate to the Jews, yet they are all concerning their restauration. The Prophesies of Judgments from the beginning of this chapter to the 52. chapter are all against forreign Nations, which are called Gentiles. As to whom God revealed his Will for the punishment of them for the relief and satisfaction of his people to whom the most of them had been bitter Enemies. The 52 chapter is by most concluded not to have been wrote by Ieremiah, who it is not probable would have repeated what he had related before chap. 39, but it was wrote (as it is supposed) by some of the Captives in Babylon, as a preface to the Book of Lamentations. This particular chapter containeth the Revelation of the Will of God, concerning Egypt whither some of the Jews fled for refuge after this time, and which had been a great occasion of sin to the Jews before not onely through the Jews too many leagues with them, and confidence in them, but from their communicating their Idolatry to them, Ier. 2.16. The children of Noph and Tahpan[illegible: 1 letter]es, brake the crown of their head.