Jeremiah 11:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:

That seek

Luke 4:24

Prophesy

Thou

Acts 7:51

General references

Mark 6:4

Bible References

That seek

If running with the fighting-men has made you tired, how will you be able to keep up with horses? and if in a land of peace you go in flight, what will become of you in the thick growth of Jordan?

For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

For the son puts shame on his father, the daughter goes against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's haters are those of his family.

And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

And he said to them, Truly I say to you, No prophet is honoured in his country.

Prophesy

Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure:

But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.

But be a prophet no longer at Beth-el: for it is the holy place of the king, and the king's house.

Let not words like these be dropped, they say: Shame and the curse will not come to the family of Jacob!

Thou

Now it came to the ears of Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief in authority in the house of the Lord, that Jeremiah was saying these things;

Now it came to the ears of Shephatiah, the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah, the son of Pashhur, and Jucal, the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur, the son of Malchiah, that Jeremiah had said to all the people,

And the workmen made an attack on his servants, giving blows to one, putting another to death, and stoning another.

And the rest put violent hands on his servants, and did evil to them, and put them to death.

For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;

But I have to go on my way today and tomorrow and the third day, for it is not right for a prophet to come to his death outside Jerusalem.

You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

General references

And Jesus said to them, A prophet is nowhere without honour, but in his country, and among his relations, and in his family.