These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Jeremiah 26
Tanakh 24 verses
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In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of , of , came this from , saying:
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Thus saith : Stand in the court of Yahweh’S house, and speak unto all the cities of , which come to in Yahweh’S house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a .
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Acts 20:27 Deuteronomy 4:2 Jeremiah 19:14 Jeremiah 1:17 Matthew 28:20 Jeremiah 7:2 Ezekiel 3:10 Acts 20:20 Jeremiah 42:4 Deuteronomy 12:32 2 Chronicles 24:20-21 John 18:20 John 8:2 Ezekiel 3:17-21 Luke 19:47 Jeremiah 23:28 Acts 5:20-21 Revelation 22:19 Acts 5:42 Isaiah 58:1-2 Luke 21:37-38 Jeremiah 36:10 Acts 5:25 - 3 It may be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may Me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
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And thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith : If ye will not hearken to Me, to walk in My , which I have set before you,
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- 5 to hearken to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I send unto you, even sending them betimes and often, but ye have not hearkened;
- 6 then will I make this house like , and will make this city a to all the nations of the earth.’
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So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard speaking these words in the house of .
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- 8 Now it came to pass, when had made an end of speaking all that had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying: ‘Thou shalt surely die.
- 9 Why hast thou prophesied in the of , saying: This house shall be like , and this city shall be desolate, without an inhabitant?’ And all the people were gathered against in the house of .
- 10 When the princes of heard these things, they came up from the king’s house unto the house of ; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of Yahweh’S house.
- 11 Then spoke the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying: ‘This man is worthy of death; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.’
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Then spoke unto all the princes and to all the people, saying: ‘The sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.
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- 13 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and hearken to the voice of your ; and will Him of the evil that He hath pronounced against you.
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But as for me, behold, I am in your hand; do with me as is good and right in your eyes.
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- 15 Only ye for certain that, if ye put me to death, ye will bring innocent upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof; for of a hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.’
- 16 Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets: ‘This man is not worthy of death; for he hath spoken to us in the of our .’
- 17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to all the of the people, saying:
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the Morashtite prophesied in the days of of ; and he spoke to all the people of , saying: Thus saith of hosts: shall be plowed as a field, And shall become heaps, And the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
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Did of and all put him at all to death? did he not , and entreat the favour of , and repented Him of the evil which He had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our own souls.’
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2 Samuel 24:16 Exodus 32:14 Isaiah 37:15-20 Isaiah 37:1 2 Chronicles 29:6-11 2 Chronicles 32:25-26 Isaiah 37:4 Acts 5:39 Jeremiah 44:7 2 Chronicles 32:20 Lamentations 4:13-14 Habakkuk 2:10 Jeremiah 26:15 Jeremiah 26:3 Luke 3:19-20 Revelation 18:20-24 2 Chronicles 34:21 Numbers 16:38 Numbers 35:33-34 Matthew 27:24-25 Revelation 16:6 Revelation 6:9-10 Isaiah 26:21 Matthew 23:35 -
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And there was also a man that prophesied in the of , Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of ;
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- 21 and when Jehoiakim the , with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into ;
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and Jehoiakim the sent men into , Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into ;
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- 23 and they fetched forth Uriah out of , and brought him unto Jehoiakim the ; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the children of the people.
- 24 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with , that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.