Devine Scripture

Jeremiah 26:8

Jeremiah chapter 26 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And 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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And 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.

Context

v.7And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Jehovah.

v.8This passage

v.9Why hast thou prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered unto Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Acts 7:52

    Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;

  • Matthew 21:35

    And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

  • Jeremiah 11:19

    But I was like a gentle lamb that is led 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.

  • Acts 5:33

    But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were minded to slay them.

  • Jeremiah 20:8

    For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Jehovah is made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the day.

  • Matthew 23:31

    Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.