Jeremiah 26
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Jeremiah's Message in the Temple
(Jeremiah 7.1-15)
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2 K 23.36—24.6; 2 Ch 36.5-7. Soon after Jehoiakim#26.1 Jehoiakim: See the note at 1.3. became king of Judah, the Lord said:
2Jeremiah, I have a message for everyone who comes from the towns of Judah to worship in my temple. Go to the temple courtyard and speak every word that I tell you. 3Maybe the people will listen this time. And if they stop doing wrong, I will change my mind and not punish them for their sins. 4Tell them that I have said:
You have refused to listen to me and to obey my laws and teachings. 5Again and again I have sent my servants the prophets to preach to you, but you ignored them as well. Now I am warning you that if you don't start obeying me at once, 6#Js 18.1; Ps 78.60; Jr 7.12-14. I will destroy this temple, just as I destroyed the town of Shiloh.#26.6 Shiloh: The sacred tent had once stood at Shiloh. Then everyone on earth will use the name “Jerusalem” as a curse word.
Jeremiah on Trial
7The priests, the prophets, and everyone else in the temple heard what I said, 8-9and as soon as I finished, they all crowded around me and started shouting, “Why did you preach that the Lord will destroy this temple, just as he destroyed Shiloh? Why did you say that Jerusalem will be empty and lie in ruins? You ought to be put to death for saying such things in the Lord's name!” Then they had me arrested.
10The royal officers heard what had happened, and they came from the palace to the new gate of the temple to be the judges at my trial.#26.10 new gate … trial: Public trials were often held in an open area at a gate of a city, palace, or temple. 11While they listened, the priests and the prophets said to the crowd, “All of you have heard Jeremiah prophesy that Jerusalem will be destroyed. He deserves the death penalty.”
12-13Then I told the judges and everyone else:
The Lord himself sent me to tell you about the terrible things he will do to you, to Jerusalem, and to the temple. But if you change your ways and start obeying the Lord, he will change his mind.
14You must decide what to do with me. Just do whatever you think is right. 15But if you put me to death, you and everyone else in Jerusalem will be guilty of murdering an innocent man, because everything I preached came from the Lord.
16The judges and the other people told the priests and prophets, “Since Jeremiah only told us what the Lord our God had said, we don't think he deserves to die.”
17Then some of the leaders from other towns stepped forward. They told the crowd that 18#Mic 3.12. years ago when Hezekiah#26.18 Hezekiah: Ruled 716–687 b.c. was king of Judah, a prophet named Micah from the town of Moresheth had said:
“I, the Lord All-Powerful, say
Jerusalem will be plowed under
and left in ruins.
Thorns will cover the mountain
where the temple
now stands.”#26.18 Jerusalem … stands: See Micah 3.12.
19Then the leaders continued:
No one put Micah to death for saying that. Instead, King Hezekiah prayed to the Lord with fear and trembling and asked him to have mercy. Then the Lord decided not to destroy Jerusalem, even though he had already said he would.
People of Judah, if Jeremiah is killed, we will bring a terrible disaster on ourselves.
20-24After these leaders finished speaking, an important man named Ahikam son of Shaphan spoke up for me as well. And so, I wasn't handed over to the crowd to be killed.
Uriah the Prophet
While Jehoiakim#26.20-24 Jehoiakim: See the note at 1.3. was still king of Judah, a man named Uriah son of Shemaiah left his hometown of Kiriath-Jearim and came to Jerusalem. Uriah was one of the Lord's prophets, and he was saying the same things about Judah and Jerusalem that I had been saying. And when Jehoiakim and his officials and military officers heard what Uriah said, they tried to arrest him, but he escaped to Egypt. So Jehoiakim sent Elnathan son of Achbor and some other men after Uriah, and they brought him back. Then Jehoiakim had Uriah killed and his body dumped in a common burial pit.
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Jeremiah 26
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Jeremiah Threatened with Death
1 # ch. 27:1 In the beginning of the reign of #2 Kgs. 23:36; 2 Chr. 36:5Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the Lord: 2“Thus says the Lord: #ch. 19:14 Stand in the court of the Lord’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah that come to worship in the house of the Lord #[Ezek. 3:10] all the words that I command you to speak to them; #Deut. 4:2; 12:32; [Acts 20:27]do not hold back a word. 3#ch. 36:3 It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, #ver. 13, 19; See ch. 18:8 that I may relent of the disaster that I intend to do to them #ch. 4:4because of their evil deeds. 4You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord: #Lev. 26:14; Deut. 28:15If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set before you, 5#See ch. 25:3, 4and to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you #See ch. 25:3, 4urgently, #See ch. 25:3, 4though you have not listened, 6then I will make this house #See ch. 7:12 like Shiloh, and I will make this city #See ch. 24:9a curse for all the nations of the earth.’”
7 # ch. 23:33 The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord. 8And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, then #[See ver. 7 above]the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, “You shall die! 9Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house shall be #[See ver. 6 above] like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, #See ch. 4:7without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
10When #ch. 36:12 the officials of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to the house of the Lord and took their seat in the #ch. 36:10entry of the New Gate of the house of the Lord. 11Then #[See ver. 7 above] the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, #ch. 38:4; [ver. 16]“This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”
12Then Jeremiah spoke to all the officials and all the people, saying, “The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the words you have heard. 13Now therefore #See ch. 7:3 mend your ways and your deeds, #Deut. 30:2 and obey the voice of the Lord your God, #[See ver. 3 above]and the Lord will relent of the disaster that he has pronounced against you. 14#Josh. 9:25But as for me, behold, I am in your hands. Do with me as seems good and right to you. 15Only know for certain that if you put me to death, #[Matt. 27:24]you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in truth the Lord sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”
Jeremiah Spared from Death
16 # ver. 8 Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, #[ver. 11]“This man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.” 17#[Acts 5:34] And certain of #See ch. 19:1the elders of the land arose and spoke to all the assembled people, saying, 18“Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts,
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Mic. 3:12
“‘Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,
and the mountain of the house a wooded height.’
19Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? #[2 Chr. 32:26] Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, #Ex. 32:14; 2 Sam. 24:16; [1 Kgs. 13:6] and did not the Lord relent of the disaster that he had pronounced against them? #[Acts 5:39]But we are about to bring great disaster upon ourselves.”
20There was another man who prophesied in the name of the Lord, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from #Josh. 9:17; 1 Sam. 6:21; 7:1, 2; 1 Chr. 13:5, 6Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land in words like those of Jeremiah. 21And when #ver. 1; ch. 27:1King Jehoiakim, with all his warriors and all the officials, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death. But when Uriah heard of it, he was afraid and fled and escaped to Egypt. 22Then #[See ver. 21 above] King Jehoiakim sent to Egypt certain men, #ch. 36:12, 25 Elnathan the son of #2 Kgs. 22:12, 14Achbor and others with him, 23and they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, #[ch. 22:17; Neh. 9:26; Matt. 21:35; 23:37]who struck him down with the sword and dumped his dead body into the burial place of the common people.
24But the hand of #2 Kgs. 22:12Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah so that he was not given over to the people to be put to death.
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