Jeremiah 26:15

Therefore has Apis fled from you? your choice calf has not remained; for the Lord has utterly weakened him.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

In Context

14Proclaim it at Magdol, and declare it at Memphis: say you⌃, Stand up, and prepare; for the sword has devoured your yew tree.

16And your multitude has fainted and fallen; and each one said to his neighbor, Let us arise, and return into our country to our people, from the Grecian sword.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:10And the Lord said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood cries to me out of the ground.

Numbers 35:33So shall you⌃ not pollute with murder the land in which you⌃ dwell; for this blood pollutes the land, and the land shall not be purged from the blood shed upon it, but by the blood of him that shed it.

2 Kings 24:4Moreover he shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not + 24:4 Gr. be propitiated. pardon it.

Proverbs 6:17The eye of the haughty, a tongue unjust, hands shedding the blood of the just;

Jeremiah 2:34and in your hands has been found the blood of innocent souls; I have not found them in holes, but on every oak.

Jeremiah 22:3thus says the Lord; Execute you⌃ judgment and justice, and rescue the spoiled out of the hand of him that wrongs him: and oppress not the stranger, and orphan, and widow, and sin not, and shed no innocent blood in this place.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 26:8-16

Jeremiah Prosecuted for His Preaching; Jeremiah's Defence. ( b. c. 608.) 7 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord . 8 Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die. 9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the Lord , saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this… Read the whole commentary →

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