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ARMSTRONG AND SON 51 EAST TENTH STREET 1895 PREFACE 'T^HE present work deals primarily with Jeremiah xxi. — lii., thus forming a supplement to the volume of the Expositor's Bible on Jeremiah by the Rev. C. J. Ball, M.A. References to the earlier chapters are only introduced where they are necessary to illustrate and explain the later sections. I regret that two important works, Prof. Skinner's Ezekiel in this series, and Cornill's Jeremiah in Dr. Haupt's Sacred Books of the Old Testament^ were published too late to be used in the preparation of this volume. I have again to acknowledge my indebtedness to the Rev. T. H. Darlow, M.A., for a careful reading and much valuable criticism of my MS. INDEX (The larger figures in black type are the chief references. Passages in i. — XX. are only noticed by way of ilhtstration of later sections) CHAP. PAGE 1 i. 7 . . . . 295 1 10 295, 308 10-12 . • 340 15 295 18 82 ii. 10, II 51 27 290 34 272 iii. 14 352 15 324 iv. 19 327 21 302 V. 31 15 vi. 28 275 vii. 4. 20 5-9 272 12-14 14 ix. II, X. 2 -2 306 xi. 19 6 xii. 14 323 xiii. 18 90 xiv. 8 308 XV. I 296 1-4 340 4 . 202 CHAP. xvi. XX. xxi. 15 XXlll,, xxiii. 14 I 23 4 15 2 l-IO 3-6 1-9 10-12 13-19 17 20-30 xxiv. 3-8 12 14 25-27 25-32 33,34 40 PAGE . 6 • 274 . 308 . 320 . 353 . 291 . 272 . 304 . 272 . 141 • 303 . 295 3 . 63 . 272 . 80 . S6 . 319 299, 302 . 272 . 288 . 340 ■ 304 • 307 . 99 INDEX CHAP. PAGE CHAP. PAGE xxiv. 6, 7 . 319 xxxvi. . 28 XXV. 5 . . 297 2 . . 298 9 . . 215 30, 31 • . 63 10 . 306, 307 31 . • 83,304 12 . •316 xxxvii. 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