So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in Yahweh’s house.
- BSB Now the priests and prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD,
- NKJV So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord.
- NASB The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord.
- NLT The priests, the prophets, and all the people listened to Jeremiah as he spoke in front of the Lord’s Temple.
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Quick answer
The religious leaders and people heard Jeremiah deliver this hard word in the temple courts. The setting heightens the coming clash between God's prophet and the religious establishment.
Overview
The narrative shifts from the message to its reception, naming priests, prophets, and people as witnesses. That the sermon was preached publicly in 'Yahweh's house' makes the rejection all the more grievous. Those charged with guarding worship become the chief opponents of God's truth. The scene foreshadows how religious leaders would later oppose Jesus in the same temple.
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Cross-references · 8
- Mic 3:11The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
- Jer 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
- Matt 21:15And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were sore displeased,
- Jer 23:11–15For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
- Zeph 3:4Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
- Acts 5:17Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,
- Acts 4:1–6And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
- Ezek 22:25–26There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
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Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.
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