Jeremiah 17:20

“And say unto them, hear ye the word of the Lord, etc.] Concerning the sanctification of the sabbath; for this was not of human, but of divine institution: ye kings of Judah; which must be understood either, as Kimchi thinks, of the then present king and his sons, so called because they would reign after him; for, there was but one king at a time; and who, perhaps, at this time, was Josiah: or else the king and his nobles, the princes of the land, are meant: and all Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates; the people in the several parts of the land of Judea, that came to Jerusalem either for trade and merchandise, or for worship, and all that dwelt in the…”

“kings--He begins with the kings, as they ought to have repressed such a glaring profanation.”

“This prophecy on the observance of the Sabbath, is the first of a series of short predictions. arranged probably in chronological order among themselves, but in other respects independent of one another. Its tone is mild, and dissuasive rather of future neglect than condemnatory of past misconduct; and it may be assigned to the commencement of Jehoiakim’s reign. Its similarity to the prophecy contained in Jeremiah 22:1-5 makes it probable that they were contemporaneous. Jeremiah 17:19 The gate of the children of the people - Perhaps the principal entrance of the outer court of the temple. Very probably there was traffic there, as in our Lord’s time, in doves and other requisites for…”

“Jer 13:18, Jer 19:3, Jer 22:2; Psa 49:1, Psa 49:2; Eze 2:7, Eze 3:17; Hos 5:1; Amo 4:1; Mic 3:1; Rev 2:29 Jeremiah 17:21”