Jeremiah 12:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.

Thy brethren

Yea

Acts 21:28

Though

Psalm 12:2

Proverbs 26:25

Matthew 22:16

General references

Matthew 10:36

Mark 6:4

Bible References

Thy brethren

Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me,'saying , Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him,'say all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren; and they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, And an alien unto my mother's children.

And as for thee, son of man, the children of thy people talk of thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from Jehovah.

Trust ye not in a neighbor; put ye not confidence in a friend; keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

And they sought to lay hold on him; and they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spake the parable against them: and they left him, and went away.

For even his brethren did not believe on him.

Yea

For thus saith Jehovah unto me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds be called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Jehovah of hosts come down to fight upon mount Zion, and upon the hill thereof.

And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent their garments off them, and commanded to beat them with rods.

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment-seat,

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Diana, brought no little business unto the craftsmen;

crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man that teacheth all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place; and moreover he brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place.

Though

They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

When he speaketh fair, believe him not; For there are seven abominations in his heart:

And they send to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one: for thou regardest not the person of men.

General references

and a man's foes'shall be they of his own household.

And Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.