Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the
Lord
Made use of his name in declaring a falsehood, as they would have
it; this was the crime: had he said what he thought fit to say in
his own name, they suggest it would not have been so bad; but to
vent his own imaginations in the name of the Lord, this they
judged wicked and blasphemous, and deserving of death; especially
since what he said was against their city and temple:
saying, this house shall be like Shiloh;
forsaken and destroyed; that is, the temple: and this city
shall be desolate without an inhabitant?
so they wrested his words; for this he did not say, only that it
should be a curse to all the nations of the earth: and all
the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of
the
Lord;
besides those that were in the temple that heard him, others,
upon a rumour that he was apprehended by the priests, and
prophets, and people in the temple, got together in a mob about
him: or, they were "gathered to" F5 him; to hear what he had to
say in his own defence; and it appears afterwards that they were
on his side, ( Jeremiah
26:16 ) .