Jeremiah 20:10

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Jeremiah 20:10

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Summary

For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

I heard

Fear

Jeremiah 20:3

Report

All my familiars

Luke 12:52

We shall

Acts 23:12

General references

Psalm 94:19

Matthew 10:36

Mark 3:2

Bible References

I heard

For I have heard the

slander of many,

Terror is on every side;

While they took counsel together against me,
They schemed to take away my life.

My soul is among lions;
I must lie among those who breathe forth fire,
Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows
And their tongue a sharp sword.

Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers,
From the tumult of those who do iniquity,

Now the chief priests and the whole

Council kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put Him to death.

Fear

On the next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “Pashhur is not the name the Lord has called you, but rather

Magor-missabib.

Report

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the sage, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike at him with our tongue, and let us give no heed to any of his words.”

In it was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says, that you and the Jews are planning to rebel; therefore you are rebuilding the wall. And you are to be their king, according to these reports.

He who conceals hatred has lying lips,
And he who spreads slander is a fool.

Who cause a person to be indicted by a word,
And ensnare him who adjudicates at the gate,
And

defraud the one in the right with meaningless arguments.

Slanderous men have been in you for the purpose of shedding blood, and in you they have eaten at the mountain shrines. In your midst they have committed acts of lewdness.

So they watched Him, and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, in order that they might catch Him in some statement, so that they could deliver Him to the rule and the authority of the governor.

Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.”

After five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders, with an attorney named Tertullus, and they brought charges to the governor against Paul.

All my familiars

“All my associates abhor me,
And those I love have turned against me.

Even my close friend in whom I trusted,
Who ate my bread,
Has lifted up his heel against me.

But it is you, a man my equal,
My companion and my

familiar friend;

When He left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very hostile and to question Him closely on many subjects,

for from now on five members in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three.

We shall

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” And he answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the Lord.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” But Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”

Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted to put him to death and could not do so;

But when they heard this, they were cut to the quick and intended to kill them.

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the quick, and they began gnashing their teeth at him.

When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

General references

When my anxious thoughts multiply within me,
Your consolations delight my soul.

and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.

They were watching Him to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him.