Jeremiah 11:21

It was the men of my own town, Anathoth, who wanted to kill me, and they told me that they would kill me if I did not stop prophesying what Yahweh told me to say.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:

In Context

20Then I prayed, “Commander of the armies of angels, you judge people justly/fairly, and you examine everything that we are thinking [DOU]. Allow me to watch you getting revenge on the people who want to kill me, because I trust that you will do for me what is right.”

22So the Commander of the armies of angels said about them, “I will punish them. Their young men will be killed in wars, and their children will die because they have no food.

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Cross References

Isaiah 30:10They tell the people who see/receive visions from Yahweh, “Stop seeing visions!” They tell the prophets, “Do not reveal to us what is right! Tell us pleasant things; do not tell us visions about things that are true!

Jeremiah 12:5Then to show me that I needed to be prepared to endure even greater difficulties, Yahweh said to me, “It is as though you have become exhausted from racing against men; so how will you be able to race against horses? If you stumble and fall when you are running on open/bare/smooth ground, what will happen to you when you are running through the thornbushes near the Jordan River?

Jeremiah 20:1Pashhur, the son of Immer, was a priest who supervised the temple guards. He heard those things that I had prophesied.

Jeremiah 26:8But as soon as I finished telling them everything that Yahweh had commanded me to say, they all seized me and said, “You must be executed!

Amos 2:12But you commanded the prophets to not speak the messages that I gave to them, and you persuaded the Nazir-men to drink wine, which I told them never to do.

Micah 2:6The people who heard me say that replied to me, “Do not prophesy such things! Do not say that Yahweh is going to humiliate us by causing us to experience disasters!”

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 11:19-23

Conspiracy against Jeremiah; Destruction of the Men of Anathoth. ( b. c. 606.) 18 And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou showedst me their doings. 19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered. 20 But, O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the… Read the whole commentary →

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