Chapters 7 to 10 constitute an address delivered by Jeremiah at the gate of the Temple in Jerusalem.

[8][9][10] There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint (with a different verse numbering), made in the last few centuries BCE.

Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B;

Cross reference: Ezekiel 6:5 According to the first-century Jewish historian Josephus, Hyrcanus and Herod broke into the sepulchre of David to take the treasures, but the tombs of the kings were inaccessible.

[15] According to Streane, the bones were laid out before the sun and the moon so that "the objects of their former devotion might look down on the indignities to which those who had served them were subject".