Translator's Preface volume third  The derangement as to the
order of the chapters first occurs in this Volume. It is
commonly thought that chapters 21, 24, and 27, were delivered in
the time of Zedekiah; while chapters 20, 22, 23, 25, and 26,
contain Prophecies delivered in the previous reign of Jehoiakim.
The early Versions and the Targum retain the same order with the
Hebrew, only there are derangements of another kind both in the
Septuagint and the Arabic, which commence at verse 14 of chapter
25, and continue to the end of chapter 51: It hence appears that
the disorder had taken place early, before the Versions were
made.  There are a few particulars to which the Editor wishes to
draw the attention of Literary Readers, some of which have been
already noticed in the Notes appended to previous Volumes,
though not perhaps so fully specified as to attract attention;
and there is one subject which belongs especially to this
Volume.  The first thing is in reference to a Hebrew idiom; and
that with regard to th