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

It is but lost labour, that I smite your children, for they receive not my correction. Your own sword destroyeth your prophets, like a devouring lion.

But I, as a meek lamb, was carried away to be slain: not knowing, that they had devised such a counsel against me saying, "We will destroy his meat with wood, and drive him out of the land of the living: that his name shall never be thought upon."

"Seeing thou art weary in running with the footmen, how wilt thou then run with the horses? In a peaceable sure land thou mayest be safe, but how wilt thou do in the furious pride of Jordan?

Then said they, "Come, let us imagine something against this Jeremiah." Yea, this did even the priests, to whom the law was committed: the Senators, that were the wisest: and the prophets, which wanted not the word of God. "Come," said they, "let us cut out his tongue, and let us not regard his words."

When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, chief in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah preach so steadfastly:

But they mocked the messengers of God and despised their words and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD so arose against his people that it was past remedy.

{Mem} Which nevertheless is come to pass for the sins of her prophets, and for the wickedness of her priests that have shed innocents' blood within her.

and the husbandmen caught his servants, and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

the remnant took his servants, and intreated them ungoodly, and slew them.

So then: ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them, which killed the prophets.

Then assembled together the chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people into the palace of the high priest, called Caiaphas:

When they heard that, they clave asunder, and sought means to slay them.

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them, which showed before of the coming of that Just, whom ye have betrayed and murdered.

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

General references

so that he forsook the Tabernacle in Shiloh, even the tent that he had pitched among men.