Jeremiah 26:7
What does Jeremiah 26:7 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 26:7 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Jehovah.
KJV
King James Version · 1611So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Jehovah.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And in the hearing of the priests and the prophets and all the people, Jeremiah said these words in the house of the Lord.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, hear Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Jehovah,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And the priests, and the prophets, and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Jehovah.
Context
v.6then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
v.7This passage
v.8And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
- Acts 4:1
And as they spake unto the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,
- Micah 3:11
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.
- Jeremiah 5:31
the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
- Acts 5:17
But the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy,
- Matthew 21:15
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children that were crying in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were moved with indignation,
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