Jeremiah 29:26

Shemaiah reminded the priest of his duty to discipline anyone acting like a madman or self-made prophet. He wanted Jeremiah silenced as a fraud.

Cross-references · 26

• 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,
• 2 Kgs 9:11When Jehu went out to the servants of his master, they asked, “Is everything all right? Why did this madman come to you?” “You know his kind and their babble,” he replied.
• Acts 26:24At this stage of Paul’s defense, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice, “You are insane, Paul! Your great learning is driving you to madness!”
• Hos 9:7The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived—let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility.
• John 10:20Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and insane. Why would you listen to Him?”
• Acts 16:24On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
• Deut 13:1–5If a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,
• Mark 3:21When His family heard about this, they went out to take custody of Him, saying, “He is out of His mind.”
• Jer 38:6So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
• John 10:33“We are not stoning You for any good work,” said the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because You, who are a man, declare Yourself to be God.”
• Jer 29:27So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who poses as a prophet among you?
• Matt 21:23When Jesus returned to the temple courts and began to teach, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to Him. “By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave You this authority?”
• 2 Cor 11:33But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.
• Jer 38:28And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.
• 2 Chr 16:10Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.
• 2 Kgs 11:18So all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. And Jehoiada the priest posted guards for the house of the LORD.
• Acts 26:11I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.
• John 8:53Are You greater than our father Abraham? He died, as did the prophets. Who do You claim to be?”
• Acts 5:24When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.
• 2 Kgs 11:15And Jehoiada the priest ordered the commanders of hundreds in charge of the army, “Bring her out between the ranks, and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “She must not be put to death in the house of the LORD.”
• Zech 13:3–6And if anyone still prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You shall not remain alive, because you have spoken falsely in the name of the LORD.’ When he prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will pierce him through.
• Acts 5:18and arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.
• 2 Cor 5:13–15If we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.
• Acts 4:1While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,
• Rev 2:10Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
• 2 Chr 18:26and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”

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