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 20:1–2Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
• 2 Kgs 9:11Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
• Acts 26:24And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
• Hos 9:7The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
• John 10:20And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
• Acts 16:24Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
• Deut 13:1–5If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
• Mark 3:21And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
• Jer 38:6Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
• John 10:33The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
• Jer 29:27Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?
• Matt 21:23And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
• 2 Cor 11:33And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
• Jer 38:28So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
• 2 Chr 16:10Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
• 2 Kgs 11:18And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
• Acts 26:11And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
• John 8:53Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
• Acts 5:24Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.
• 2 Kgs 11:15But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.
• Zech 13:3–6And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
• Acts 5:18And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.
• 2 Cor 5:13–15For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
• Acts 4:1And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
• Rev 2:10Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
• 2 Chr 18:26And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.

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