To pronounce the covenant broken is to stir opposition (11:18–23). The men of Anathoth, Jeremiah’s townsfolk, are almost certainly his immediate family (cf. 12:6). Embarrassed, then incensed, they eventually plot murder. People who resent a disconcerting message resort to silencing or eliminating the messenger (cf. Amos 7:12; Jesus in John 19; Stephen in Acts 7:54–59). The e…