Jeremiah 26:15
Only 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."
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
14But as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as is good and right in your eyes.
Cross References
Genesis 4:10The Lord said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
Numbers 35:33"'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.
2 Kings 24:4and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and the Lord would not pardon.
Proverbs 6:17haughty eyes, a lying tongue,hands that shed innocent blood;
Jeremiah 2:34Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.
Jeremiah 22:3Thus says the Lord: "Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed 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 →