The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Jeremiah 25:38 (CJB)

Like a lion, he has abandoned his lair; for their land has become desolate because of the oppressor’s fierce sword
and because of Adonai’s fierce anger.

 

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Jeremiah 26:1 (NASB)
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the LORD, saying,

 

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Jeremiah 26:2 (BSB)
“This is what the LORD says: Stand in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and speak all the words I have commanded you to speak to all the cities of Judah who come to worship there. Do not omit a word.

 

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Jeremiah 26:3 (NIV)

Perhaps they will listen and each will turn from their evil ways. Then I will relent and not inflict on them
the disaster I was planning because of the evil they have done.

 

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Jeremiah 26:4 (NIV)

Say to them, “This is what the Lord says: if you do not listen to me and follow my law, which I have set before you,

 

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Jeremiah 26:5 (BSB)
and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have sent you again and again even though you did not listen,

 

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Jeremiah 26:6 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.'

 

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Jeremiah 26:7 (EHV)

The priests, the prophets, and all the people listened as Jeremiah spoke these words at the House of the Lord.

 

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Jeremiah 26:8 (EHV)

When Jeremiah had finished saying everything the Lord had commanded him to say to all the people,
then the priests, the prophets, and all the people seized him and said, “You must die!

 

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Jeremiah 26:9 (NKJV)
Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without an inhabitant’?” And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

 

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Jeremiah 26:10 (ESV)
When the officials of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to the house of the LORD and took their seat in the entry of the New Gate of the house of the LORD.

 

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Jeremiah 26:11 (ESV)
Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, “This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”

 

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Jeremiah 26:12 (ESV)
Then Jeremiah spoke to all the officials and all the people, saying, “The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the words you have heard.

 

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Jeremiah 26:13 (NIV)

Now reform your ways and your actions and obey the Lord your God. Then the Lord will relent
and not bring the disaster he has pronounced against you.

 

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Jeremiah 26:14 (NIV)

As for me, I am in your hands; do with me whatever you think is good and right.

 

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Jeremiah 26:15 (NKJV)
But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will surely bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for truly the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.”

 

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Jeremiah 26:16 (NASB)
Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, “No death sentence for this man! For he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.”

 

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Jeremiah 26:17 (NIV)

Some of the elders of the land stepped forward and said to the entire assembly of people,

 

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Jeremiah 26:18 (NIV)

‘Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. He told all the people of Judah,
“This is what the Lord Almighty says:

‘“Zion will be ploughed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,
the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.” (Micah 3:12)

 

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Jeremiah 26:19 (ESV)
Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD and entreat the favor of the LORD, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster that he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great disaster upon ourselves.”