Jeremiah 29:25

Shemaiah, presuming to speak for God, sent letters in his own name to Jerusalem's priests to suppress Jeremiah. His self-appointed authority opposed God's true word.

Cross-references · 15

• Jer 29:29Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.
• Jer 52:24The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:
• Jer 37:3Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “Pray now to Yahweh our God for us.”
• 2 Kgs 25:18–21The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;
• Neh 6:5Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,
• 2 Kgs 10:1–7Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up Ahab’s sons, saying,
• 2 Kgs 19:9When he heard it said of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you, he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,
• Acts 9:2and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
• Neh 6:19Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
• Neh 6:17Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.
• Jer 21:1–2The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,
• 1 Kgs 21:8–13So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.
• Ezra 4:7–16In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in Syrian, and delivered in the Syrian language.
• 2 Kgs 19:14Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.
• 2 Chr 32:17He also wrote letters insulting Yahweh, the God of Israel, and speaking against him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.”

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