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And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Jeremiah 3:15 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
  • BSB Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.”
  • NKJV And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
  • NASB “Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you knowledge and understanding.
  • NLT And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will guide you with knowledge and understanding.

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Quick answer

Ishbosheth takes Michal from her second husband Paltiel and sends her to David. The political weakness of Saul's house is evident in his quick compliance.

Overview

Ishbosheth, too weak to resist Abner's pressure, removes Michal from Paltiel to whom Saul had unlawfully given her. The terse account underscores how powerless Saul's heir had become. The episode is morally tangled, exposing the human grief caused by Saul's earlier disregard for David's marriage.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 18

  • Jer 23:4And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.
  • Acts 20:28Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
  • Eph 4:11–12And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
  • Ezek 34:23And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
  • John 21:15–17So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.
  • Isa 30:20–21And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
  • Prov 10:21The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
  • 1 Cor 3:1–2And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
  • Luke 12:42And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?
  • Ezek 37:24And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
  • 1 Cor 2:6Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
  • 1 Cor 2:12–13Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
  • John 10:1–5Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
  • 1 Pet 5:1–4The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
  • Mic 5:4–5And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
  • 1 Pet 2:2As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
  • 1 Sam 13:14But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.
  • Heb 5:12–14For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

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Christ at the center

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.

How Jeremiah 3:15 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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