Jeremiah 26:8

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Summary

Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.

The priests

General references

Psalm 78:60

Bible References

The priests

In vain did I strike your sons; they received no instruction: your sword consumed the prophets as a lion destroying.

And I as a gentle lamb being brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that against me they purposed purposes: We will destroy the tree with its food, and we will cut him off from the land of the living, and his name shall no more be remembered.

If thou didst run with the footmen and they will weary thee, and how wilt thou contend with horses? and in the land of peace thou trustest, and how wilt thou do in the grandeur of Jordan

And they will say, Come, and we will purpose purposes against Jeremiah; for law shall not perish from the priest, and counsel from the wise, and the word from the prophet Come, and we will strike him with the tongue, and we will not attend to any of his words.

And Pashur, son of Immer the priest, and he appointed overseer of the house of Jehovah, will hear Jeremiah prophesying these words.

For they will be mocking upon the messengers of God, and despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, even to the bringing up the wrath of Jehovah against his people, even to no healing.

From the sins of her prophets the iniquities of her priests shedding the blood of the just in her midst,

And the farmers having taken his servants, truly one they stripped, and one they killed, and one they stoned.

And the rest, having seized his servants, were insolent, and killed them.

Wherefore ye bear testimony to yourselves, that ye are the sons of those having slain the prophets.

Then were gathered together the chief priests, and scribes, and the more ancient of the people, into the court-yard of the chief priest, called Caliaphas,

And having heard, they gnashed the teeth with rage, and consulted to kill them.

Which of the prophets did not your fathers drive out and they slew them announcing beforehand of the coming of the Just; of whom ye have now been traitors and murderers:

And in her was found the blood of the prophets, and of the holy, and of all those slain upon the earth.

General references

And he cast off the tent of Shiloh, the tent he pitched among man.