Jeremiah 11:21

Therefore Yahweh says this concerning the people of Anathoth who are seeking your life, “They say, 'You must not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, or you will die by our hand.'

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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

20Yet Yahweh of hosts is the righteous judge who examines the heart and the mind. 1 I will witness your vengeance against them, for I have presented my case to you.

22Therefore Yahweh of hosts says this, 'See, I am about to punish them. Their vigorous young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by famine.

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Cross References

Isaiah 30:10They say to the seers, “Do not see;” 1 and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy the truth to us; 1 speak flattering words to us, prophesy illusions.

Jeremiah 12:5Yahweh said, “Indeed, if you, Jeremiah, have run with foot soldiers and they have tired you out, how can you compete against horses? 1 If you fall down in the safe countryside, how will you do in the thickets along the Jordan? 1

Jeremiah 20:1Pashhur son of Immer the priest—he was a leading officer—heard Jeremiah prophesying these words before Yahweh's house.

Jeremiah 26:8So it happened that when Jeremiah had finished announcing all that Yahweh commanded him to say to all the people, the priests, prophets, and all the people seized him and said, “You will certainly die!

Amos 2:12But you persuaded the Nazirites to drink wine 1 and commanded the prophets not to prophesy. 1

Micah 2:6“Do not prophesy,” 1 they say. 1 “They must not prophesy these things; 1 reproaches must not come.” 1

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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