Jeremiah 26:14

But as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as is good and right in your eyes.

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In The King James Version

As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you.

In Context

13Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God; and the Lord will relent of the disaster that he has pronounced against you.

15Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants; for of a truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears."

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Cross References

Joshua 9:25Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do."

2 Chronicles 24:22Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, "May the Lord look at it, and repay it."

Jeremiah 38:5Zedekiah the king said, "Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he who can do anything against you."

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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