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 I have stricken your sons; they received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

But I was like a docile lamb being brought to the slaughter. And I did not know that they had plotted evils against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name may be remembered no more.

If you have run with footmen, and they wore you out, then how can you compete with horses? And if you feel secure in the land of peace, then how will you do in the swelling of the Jordan?

Then they said, Come and let us plot schemes against Jeremiah. For the Law shall not perish from the priest, nor wisdom from the wise, nor the Word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.

When Pashur the son of Immer the priest (he was chief officer in the house of Jehovah) heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,

But they mocked the messengers of God and despised His words, and ill-treated His prophets until the wrath of Jehovah arose against His people, until there was no healing.

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

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

And the rest took his servants and treated them spitefully, and killed them.

Therefore you are witnesses to yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets;

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

But those hearing were cut to the heart, and they took counsel to kill them.

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now been the betrayers and murderers;

And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all those who were slain on the earth.

General references

so that He left the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which He placed among men,