Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

World English Bible

In The King James Version

Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

In Context

17I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

19Give heed to me, LORD, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.

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Cross References

Leviticus 10:11You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD has spoken to them by Moses.”

2 Samuel 17:14Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil on Absalom.

2 Chronicles 24:21They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the LORD’s house.

Psalms 21:11For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

Psalms 57:4My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Proverbs 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 18:12-18

People of God Accused and Threatened; Folly of Idolatry. ( b. c. 600.) 11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good. 12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord ; Ask ye… Read the whole commentary →

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