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Jeremiah 26:19

in Jeremiah 26

Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did Hezekiah not fear the LORD and seek His favor, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster He had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great harm on ourselves!”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? did he not fear Jehovah, and entreat the favor of Jehovah, and Jehovah repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls.

KJV

Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the Lord, and besought the Lord, and the Lord repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.

This verse in Jeremiah 26

Commentary

8 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Some of the elders of the

on Jeremiah 26:17-19

Some “elders of the land” answer with a precedent, quoting Micah 3:12 from a century earlier: “Zion will be plowed like a field.” Hezekiah spared Micah and sought the LORD's favor, the LORD relented, and now “we are about to bring great harm on ourselves!”

This site's exposition

Did Hezekiah king of Judah

The elders argue from what Hezekiah did with Micah. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown note that the precedent came from the reign of a good king. Hezekiah answered the warning by seeking the LORD, the disaster was held back, and killing Jeremiah would bring great harm on Judah itself.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 17 onwards) And the men of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to the whole assembly of the people, saying: Micaiah of Moresheth was a prophet in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house like the high places of a forest. Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death?

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Thus - Now, if we should take a quite contrary course, and put this man to death, we should do ourselves no good, but procure great evil against our souls; that is against ourselves.
Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death?....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Note, It is good to deter ourselves from sin with the consideration of the mischief we shall certainly do to ourselves by it and the irreparable damage it will be to our own souls. Here is an instance of another prophet that was put to death by Jehoiakim for prophesying as Jeremiah had done,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Hezekiah, so far from killing him, was led "to fear the Lord," and pray for remission of the sentence against Judah (2Ch 32:26). Lord repented-- (Ex 32:14;

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1 more voice on this verse

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Thus might we procure ... - Rather, And we should commit a great evil against our own souls; i. e., by putting Jeremiah to death, we should commit a sin which would prove a great misfortune to ourselves.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

Also a man was prophesying The one who said this did not say this. I.e., those who related the incident of Micah did not relate the incident concerning Uriah. Up to here are the words of the righteous.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Jeremiah 26:20:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

28 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • הֶהָמֵ֣ת¿ really <to put to death>

    hehametH4191 →839 times

  • הֱ֠מִתֻהוּdid they put to death him

    hemituhuH4191 →839 times

  • חִזְקִיָּ֨הוּHezekiah

    chizkiyahuH2396 →127 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H4428 →2525 times

  • יְהוּדָ֜הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • יְהוּדָ֗הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • הֲלֹא֮¿ not

    halo'H3808 →5168 times

  • יָרֵ֣אwas he fearing

    yare'H3372 →315 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יְהוָה֒Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וַיְחַל֙and did he entreat

    vaychalH2470 →76 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • פְּנֵ֣י[the] face of

    peneiH6440 →2123 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וַיִּנָּ֣חֶםand he repented

    vaiyinachemH5162 →108 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶל־concerning

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הָרָעָ֖הthe calamity

    haraahH7451 →662 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • דִּבֶּ֣רhe had spoken

    diberH1696 →1141 times

  • עֲלֵיהֶ֑םon them

    ʾaleihemH5921 →5755 times

  • וַאֲנַ֗חְנוּand we

    vaanachnuH587 →120 times

  • עֹשִׂ֛ים[are] about to do

    ʾosimH6213 →2628 times

  • רָעָ֥הan evil

    raahH7451 →662 times

  • גְדוֹלָ֖הgreat

    gedolahH1419 →526 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • נַפְשׁוֹתֵֽינוּ׃selves our

    nafshoteinuH5315 →754 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 32:14

    So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.

    it leads to

    • Jonah 3:10

      When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.

    • Jeremiah 26:13

      So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you.

    • Psalms 106:45

      And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

    • 1 Chronicles 21:15

      Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the…

    • Jonah 4:2

      So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish.…

  • Through

    2 Samuel 24:16

    But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that…

    it leads to

    • Exodus 12:23

      When the LORD passes through to strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway; so He will not allow…

    • Joel 2:13–14

      So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

    • Genesis 6:6

      And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.