Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, [a]This House shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? and all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

10 And when the Princes of Judah heard of these things, they came up from the king’s house into the House of the Lord, and sat down in the entry of the [b]new gate of the Lord’s House.

11 Then spake the Priests, and the Prophets unto the Princes, and to all the people, saying, [c]This man is worthy to die: for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 26:9 Because of God’s promises to the Temple, Ps. 132:14, that he would forever remain there, the hypocrites thought this Temple could never perish, and therefore thought it blasphemy to speak against it, Matt. 26:61; Acts 6:13, not considering that this was meant of the Church, where God will remain forever.
  2. Jeremiah 26:10 So called, because it was repaired by Jotham, 2 Kings 15:35.
  3. Jeremiah 26:11 Hebrew, judgments of death belongeth to this man.

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