and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, “You must surely die!
Parallel translations
- WEB When Jeremiah had finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You shall surely die!
- KJV 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.
- NKJV Now it happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You will surely die!
- NASB Yet when Jeremiah finished speaking everything that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You must die!
- NLT But when Jeremiah had finished his message, saying everything the Lord had told him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people at the Temple mobbed him. “Kill him!” they shouted.
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Quick answer
As soon as Jeremiah finished, the priests, prophets, and people seized him and declared he must die. Faithful preaching provoked deadly hostility.
Overview
The threat is immediate and unanimous among the religious crowd: 'You shall surely die!' Their fury targets the messenger rather than examining the message, a common reaction to convicting truth. Jeremiah's danger pictures the suffering of God's faithful servants throughout history. Supremely it points to Christ, who was seized in the same city for speaking God's truth (John 8:40).
Cross-references & the web
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- Lam 4:13–14But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.
- Matt 26:3–4At that time the chief priests and elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
- Jer 11:19–21For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
- Matt 26:59–66Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.
- Matt 22:6The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
- Jer 2:30“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”
- Matt 21:35–39But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
- Jer 18:18Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
- Acts 5:33When the Council members heard this, they were enraged, and they resolved to put the apostles to death.
- Acts 7:52Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
- Jer 20:1–2When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer and the chief official in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,
- Matt 23:31–35So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
- 2 Chr 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
- Jer 20:8–11For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.
- Jer 12:5–6“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
- Rev 18:24And there was found in her the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who had been slain on the earth.
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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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