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 Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in Yahweh’s house, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.
• 2 Kgs 9:11When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and how he talks.”
• Acts 26:24As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”
• Hos 9:7The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
• John 10:20Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”
• Acts 16:24who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
• Deut 13:1–5If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,
• Mark 3:21When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, “He is insane.”
• Jer 38:6Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
• John 10:33The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
• Jer 29:27Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,
• Matt 21:23When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?”
• 2 Cor 11:33Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.
• Jer 38:28So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.
• 2 Chr 16:10Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
• 2 Kgs 11:18All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over Yahweh’s house.
• Acts 26:11Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
• John 8:53Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”
• Acts 5:24Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.
• 2 Kgs 11:15Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in Yahweh’s house.”
• Zech 13:3–6It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in Yahweh’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.
• Acts 5:18and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public custody.
• 2 Cor 5:13–15For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.
• Acts 4:1As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,
• Rev 2:10Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
• 2 Chr 18:26and say, ‘Thus says 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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