26  The prophet, by God's command, in the court of the temple, threatens that the temple shall be as Shiloh, and the land a curse: exhorts to repentance, Jer 26:1-7.
He is apprehended and arraigned, Jer 26:8-11.
His apology, Jer 26:12-15.
The princes clear him by the example of Micah, Jer 26:16-19.
and of Urijah, Jer 26:20-23.
and by the care of Ahikam, Jer 26:24.

26:11 The priests - "In the corrupt state of all kingdoms, the ecclesiastical officers always were the greatest enemies to the faithful ministers of God." They speak to the members of the court who are called princes, and to the people who were in the court.

14 

14:1 At that time - When our Lord had spent about a year in his public ministry. Tetrarch - King of a fourth part of his father's dominions. Mar 6:14.

14:2 He is risen from the dead - Herod was a Sadducee: and the Sadducees denied the resurrection of the dead. But Sadduceeism staggers when conscience awakes.

14:3 His brother Philip's wife - Who was still alive. Mar 6:17.

14:4 It is not lawful for thee to have her - It was not lawful indeed for either of them to have her. For her father Aristobulus was their own brother. John's words were rough, like his raiment.He would not break the force of truth by using soft words, even to a king.

14:5 He would have put him to death - ln his fit of passion; but he was then restrained by fear of the multitude; and afterward by the reverence he bore him.

14:6 The daughter of Herodias - Afterward infamous for a life suitable to this beginning.

14:8 Being before instructed by her mother - Both as to the matter and manner of her petition: She said, Give me here - Fearing if he had time to consider, he would not do it: John the Baptist's head in a charger - A large dish or bowl.

14:9 And the king was sorry - Knowing that John was a good man.Yet for the oath's sake - So he murdered an innocent man from mere tenderness of conscience.

14:10 And he sent and beheaded John in the prison, and his head was given to the damsel - How mysterious is the providence, which left the life of so holy a man in such infamous hands! which permitted it to be sacrificed to the malice of an abandoned harlot, the petulancy of a vain girl, and the rashness of a foolish, perhaps drunken prince, who made a prophet's head the reward of a dance! But we are sure the Almighty will repay his servants in another world for what ever they suffer in this.