We have here an account of the famine, which by the parallel history took place in the reign of Jehoiakim; probably just before the captivity. Jeremiah had mourned for the good king Josiah; see 2 Chronicles 35:25 and in the succeeding reign, it is supposed, that this famine followed. The Prophet appears to have lamented it in his Lamentations 2:1. The Lord not unfrequently sends after his word, afflictions; that both may under his grace, operate together.

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