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. Fear [was] on every side, while they took counsel together against me. They devised to take away my life.

My soul is among lions. I lay among those who are set on 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 evil-doers, from the tumult of the workers of iniquity,

Now the chief priests and the elders and the whole council sought FALSE testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death,

Fear

And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, LORD has not called thy name Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.

Report

Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah. For the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not gi

in which was written, It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel, for which cause thou are building the wall. And thou would be their king according to these words.

He who hides hatred is of lying lips. And he who utters a slander is a fool.

who make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing.

Slanderous men have been in thee to shed blood, and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains. In the midst of thee they have committed lewdness.

And having watched him, they sent forth insidious men pretending themselves to be righteous, so that they might take hold of his word, in order to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor.

Then they instigated men who said, We have heard him speaking blasphemous sayings against Moses and God.

And after five days Ananias the high priest came down with the elders, and a certain orator, Tertullus, who appeared to the governor against Paul.

All my familiars

All my familiar friends abhor me, and those whom I loved are turned against me.

Yea, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

But it was thou, a man my equal, my companion, and my familiar friend.

And after he said these things to them, the scholars and the Pharisees began to harass him extremely, and to provoke him to speak impulsively about more things,

For henceforth there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

We shall

Then Jezebel send a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

And Ahab said to Elijah, Have thou found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found thee because thou have sold thyself to do that which is evil in the sight of LORD.

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, there is yet one man by whom we may inquire of LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the kin

And Herodias was resentful toward him, and wanted to kill him. And she could not,

And when they heard this, they were as being split with a saw, and wanted to annihilate them.

Now when they heard these things, they were split with a saw in their hearts, and they gnashed their teeth against him.

And when it became day, some of the Jews, having made a conspiracy, put themselves under a curse, saying neither to eat nor to drink until they would kill Paul.

General references

In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.

And a man's foes, are those of his own household.

And they watched him whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, so that they might accuse him.