Jeremiah 37:14

“That is a lie,” Jeremiah replied. “I am not deserting to the Chaldeans!” But Irijah would not listen to him; instead, he arrested Jeremiah and took him to the officials.

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KJV

Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

ASV

Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I am not falling away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him; so Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

YLT

And Jeremiah saith, `Falsehood--I am not falling unto the Chaldeans;' and he hath not hearkened unto him, and Irijah layeth hold on Jeremiah, and bringeth him in unto the heads,

DBT

And Jeremiah said, It is false: I am not deserting to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him; and Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

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Then said Jeremiah, it is false,....

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

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The princes - Not the noblemen trained in the days of Josiah and Jeremiahs friends Jer 26:16, but those described in Jer 24:8. They assumed that the accusation was true; they first scourged and then imprisoned Jeremiah.

Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical

Thus have the blackest characters been put upon the fairest purest minds, and, in such a malicious world as this is, innocency, nay, excellency itself, is no fence against the basest calumny. When at any time we are thus falsely accused we may do as Jeremiah did, boldly deny the charge and then commit our cause to him that judges righteously.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Matthew 5:11–12
Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.
Psalms 52:1–2
Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
Psalms 27:12
Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
Jeremiah 40:4–6
But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains that were on your wrists. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther. Look, the whole land is before you. Wherever it seems good and right to you, go there.”
Luke 6:22–23
Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.
1 Peter 3:16
keeping a clear conscience, so that those who slander you may be put to shame by your good behavior in Christ.
Nehemiah 6:8
Then I sent him this reply: “There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind.”
1 Peter 4:14–16
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
Luke 6:26
Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers treated the false prophets in the same way.
Psalms 35:11
Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
Jeremiah 26:10
When the officials of Judah heard these things, they went up from the king’s palace to the house of the LORD and sat there at the entrance of the New Gate.
Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

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PersonLate monarchy / ExileJeremiahPriest of Anathoth called before birth to uproot and to plant; the weeping prophet of Jerusalem's fall who bought a field in the s…

About this book

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Jeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
Date: Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile

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Psalms 27:12
Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.
leads to
- Psalms 31:8
  You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.
- Matthew 26:59–60
  Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.
- Psalms 35:11
  Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
- Psalms 41:11
  By this I know that You delight in me, for my enemy does not triumph over me.
- Psalms 35:25
  Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up!”

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