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 have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

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

If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, in which you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do in the jungle of the Jordan?

Then said they, Come, and let us devise plots 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 attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Now Pashhur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

And the tenants took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

And the remnant took his servants, and treated them shamefully, and slew them.

Therefore you are witnesses unto yourselves, that you are the children of them who killed the prophets.

Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them who showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers:

And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

General references

So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;