Jeremiah 45:4
And they said to the king, Let that man, we pray thee, be slain, for he weakens the hands of the fighting men that are left in the city, and the hands of all the people, speaking to them according to these words: for this man does not prophesy peace to this people, but evil.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
5Then the king said, Behold, he is in your hands. For the king could not resist them.
Cross References
Psalms 80:8Thou didst call upon me in trouble, and I delivered thee; 1 I heard thee in the secret place of the storm: 1 I proved thee at the water of Strife. Pause. 1
Isaiah 5:2And I made a hedge round it, and dug a trench, and planted a choice vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and dug a place for the wine vat in it: and I waited for it to bring forth grapes, and it brought forth thorns.
Jeremiah 1:10Behold, I have appointed thee this day over nations and over kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to rebuild, and to plant.
Jeremiah 18:7If I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation, or upon a kingdom, to cut them off, and to destroy them;
Lamentations 2:6And he has scattered his tabernacle as a vine, 1 He has marred his feast: 1 The Lord has forgotten the feast 1 And the Sabbath which he appointed in Zion, 1 And in the fury of his wrath 1 Has vexed the king, and priest, and prince. 1
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 45:2-5
Jeremiah's Address to Baruch. ( b. c. 607.) 1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, 2 Thus saith the Lord , the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch; 3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the Lord hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest. 4 Thus shalt thou say unto him, The Lord saith thus; Behold, that which I… Read the whole commentary →