Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
The prophets which were before me and before thee from of old, and they will prophesy to many lands and against great kingdoms, for war and for evil and for death.
New American Standard Bible
The prophets who were before me and before you from ancient times
King James Version
The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
Holman Bible
The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, disaster,
International Standard Version
The prophets who came before us from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and plague against many lands and great kingdoms.
A Conservative Version
The prophets who have been before me and before thee of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
American Standard Version
The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
Amplified
The prophets who were before me and before you from ancient times prophesied against many lands and against great kingdoms, of war and of disaster and of virulent disease.
Bible in Basic English
The prophets, who were before me and before you, from early times gave word to a number of countries and great kingdoms about war and destruction and disease.
Darby Translation
The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old, prophesied also concerning many countries and concerning great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
King James 2000
The prophets that have been before me and before you of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The prophets who were {before} me and {before} you from ancient [times] prophesied against many countries and against great kingdoms of war, and of disaster, and of plague.
Modern King James verseion
The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of plague.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The prophets that were before us in times past, which prophesied of war, or trouble, or pestilence -
NET Bible
From earliest times, the prophets who preceded you and me invariably prophesied war, disaster, and plagues against many countries and great kingdoms.
New Heart English Bible
The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
The Emphasized Bible
The prophets who were before me and before thee, from age-past times when they prophesied against many lands and concerning great kingdoms, of war and of calamity and of pestilence,
Webster
The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
World English Bible
The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
Youngs Literal Translation
The prophets who have been before me, and before thee, from of old, even they prophesy concerning many lands, and concerning great kingdoms, of battle, and of evil, and of pestilence.
Themes
Plagues » Often followed war and famine
Prophecy and prophets » How to spot a true prophet and a false prophet
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Rab
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 28:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Hananiah, The False Prophet
7 But hear now this word which I speak in thine ears and in the ears of all the people. 8 The prophets which were before me and before thee from of old, and they will prophesy to many lands and against great kingdoms, for war and for evil and for death. 9 The prophet which will prophesy for peace in the coming of the word of the prophet, the prophet shall be known: that Jehovah sent him in truth.
Phrases
Cross References
1 Kings 17:1
And Elijah the Tishbite from the Tishbites of Gilead, will say to Ahab, Jehovah the God of Israel lives whom I stood before him if there shall be dew and rain but according to the mouth of my word.
Amos 1:2
And he will say, Jehovah will cry out from Zion, and from Jerusalem he will give his voice; and the habitations of the shepherds mourned, and the head of Carmel was dried up.
Leviticus 26:14-46
And if ye will not hear to me, and will not do all these commands;
Deuteronomy 4:26-27
I took the heavens and the earth to witness against you this day, that perishing, ye shall perish to-morrow from the land which ye are passing over Jordan there to possess it: ye shall not prolong the days upon it, but being destroyed, ye shall be destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28:15-68
And it being, if thou shalt not hear to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to watch to do all his commands and his laws which I command thee this day; and all these curses came upon thee, and overtook thee:
Deuteronomy 29:18-28
Lest there be among you man or woman, or family or tribe, whom his heart turn this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poverty and wormwood;
Deuteronomy 31:16-17
And Jehovah will say to Moses, Behold thee lying down with thy fathers, and this people rising up and committing fornication after the gods of the foreigner of the land where he going there in the midst of him, and he forsook me and brake my covenant which I made with him.
Deuteronomy 32:15-44
And Jeshurun will be fat and will tread down: Thou wert fat, thou wert thick, thou wert covered; And he will reject God having made him, And he will despise the Rock of his deliverance.
1 Samuel 2:27-32
And a man of God will come to Eli and say to him, Thus said Jehovah, Revealing myself, I was revealed to the house of thy father in their being in Egypt to the house of Pharaoh.
1 Samuel 3:11-14
And Jehovah will say to Samuel, Behold, I do a word in Israel which every one hearing it his two ears shall tingle.
1 Kings 14:7-15
Go say to Jeroboam, Thus said Jehovah God of Israel, Because I raised thee up from the midst of the people, and I will give thee chief over my people Israel,
1 Kings 21:18-24
Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Shomeron: behold, in the vineyard of Naboth where he went down there to possess it
1 Kings 22:8
And the king of Israel will say to Jehoshaphat, Yet one man to seek Jehovah from him, and I hated him, for he will not prophesy good concerning me, but evil, Micaiah, son of Imlah And Jehoshaphat will say, The king shall not say thus.
Isaiah 5:1-8
I will sing now to my beloved a song of my love for his vineyard. There was a vineyard to my beloved in the horn of the son of oil:
Isaiah 6:9-12
And he will say, Go, and say to this people, Hearing, hear ye, and ye shall not understand; and seeing, see ye, and ye shall not know.
Isaiah 13:18
And the bows of the boys shall be dashed in pieces, and the fruit of the womb they shall not pity; and upon their sons their eye shall not have compassion.
Isaiah 24:1-23
Behold, Jehovah emptying the earth and making it waste, and subverting its face, and scattering its inhabitants.
Joel 1:2-20
Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the earth. Was this in your days, and if in the days of your fathers?
Joel 3:1-11
For behold, in those days and in that time when I shall turn hack the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
Micah 3:8-12
But I was filled with power, with the spirit of Jehovah, and judgment and strength to announce to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
Nahum 1:1-3
The lifting up of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.