the gate of Benjamin in the N. wall of the city, mentioned also Jeremiah 38:7; Zechariah 14:10.

a captain of the ward lit. a master of the watch, a sentinel, charged with the duty of taking cognisance of those who passed the gate.

Thou fallest away The views which Jeremiah was known to hold as to the propriety of yielding to the Chaldaeans (e.g. ch. Jeremiah 21:9) would give plausibility to the charge, and of this the princes in their hostility to the policy he advocated would gladly avail themselves to put him under arrest. Evidently there had been a considerable number of such departures (Jeremiah 38:19; cp. Jeremiah 52:15); but there was no real inconsistency between Jeremiah's counselling others to withdraw, and his conviction that it was his personal duty to remain in the doomed city.

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