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Jeremiah 26:16

The princes, not being prejudiced as were Jeremiah's accusers, give a fair decision and carry the people with them.

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See also Jeremiah 26:16 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 26:16. _THIS MAN_ IS _NOT WORTHY TO DIE_] The whole court acquitted him....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THIS MAN ... - literally, There is not to this man a sentence of death, i. e., he is acquitted by the princes and the congregation....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 26 Threatened with Death and His Deliverance _ 1. The temple like Shiloh, and Jerusalem to be a curse (Jeremiah 26:1) _ 2. Threatened with death (Jeremiah 26:8) 3. Jeremiah's defense ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 26. DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE FORETOLD: JEREMIAH'S PERIL (608 B.C.). Jeremiah is told to proclaim in the Temple (_cf._ Jeremiah 19:14; probably at some festival) a perilous message (keep not...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THEN SAID THE PRINCES, &C. In favour of Jeremiah. Note the Structure, p. 1053. THIS MAN, &C. See App-85. MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. _A legal precedent_ (Jeremiah 26:16-19) TRANSLATION (16) Then the princes and all the people said unto the priests and the prophets, There will be no judgment of death for this man! For he has spo...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    I. THE ARREST AND TRIAL OF THE PROPHET Jeremiah 26:1-24 The faithful proclamation of the word of God is dangerous business. Amos, the prophet from Tekoa, was openly rebuked by Amaziah the high priest...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God. THEN SAID THE PRINCES AND ALL...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH'S FIFTEENTH PROPHECY (EARLY IN THE REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM) For Jeremiah 26:1 see intro. to Jeremiah 7-10. This chapter gives us a sketch of the difficulties and dangers under which Jeremiah had...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THIS MAN IS NOT WORTHY TO DIE. — Literally, as before in Jeremiah 26:11, _There is no judgment of death for this man._ Here again the later parallel comes unbidden to our memory. The lay-rulers are in...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּאמְר֤וּ הַ שָּׂרִים֙ וְ כָל ־הָ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    UNGRATEFUL FORGETFULNESS Jeremiah 2:1-8; Jeremiah 26:1-24; Jeremiah 27:1-22; Jeremiah 28:1-17; Jeremiah 29:1-32; Jeremiah 30:1-24; Jeremiah 31:1-40; Jeremiah 32:1-44 God regarded

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Once again Jeremiah repeated a previous message, one delivered yet earlier, "in the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim." He had then been instructed to stand in the court of the Lord's house, and del...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _All. The populace easily changes either for better or for worse. (Worthington)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I pray the Reader to observe with me, who were the enemies of faithful Jeremiah: namely, the unfaithful priests. Oh! what a reproach is it to any age, and to every age of the Church, that the Redeemer...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _‘IN PERILS BY MY COUNTRYMEN’_ ‘This man is worthy to die.… This man is not worthy to die.’ Jeremiah 26:11; Jeremiah 26:16 I. JEREMIAH WAS NEVER SO NEAR MARTYRDOM AS AT THE TIME DESCRIBED IN THIS C...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah shews here that the sentence pronounced on him by the priests and false prophets was soon changed. They had indeed heard him, and had given some appearance of docility, as it is the case with...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 26 begins this series of details with a prophecy of the commencement of Jehoiakim's reign. The people are warned, as being already in sin, that if they repent, they shall escape. We have const...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN SAID THE PRINCES AND ALL THE PEOPLE UNTO THE PRIESTS AND TO THE PROPHETS,.... Hearing Jeremiah's apology for himself, by which it appeared that he was to be justified in what he had done, took hi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man [is] not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God._ Ver. 16. _Then said the pri...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Amend your ways, and the Lord will repent_, &c. It appears here again that God's determination to give up Jerusalem to destruction was conditional: see note on Jeremiah 18:7. If the people had repent...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Jeremiah's Defense and Deliverance...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But know ye for certain that, if ye put me to death, in the hope of thereby getting rid of an unpleasant exhorter and escaping his warnings, YE SHALL SURELY BRING INNOCENT BLOOD UPON YOURSELVES AND UP...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    16-24 When secure sinners are threatened with taking away the Spirit of God, and the kingdom of God, it is what is warranted from the word of God. Hezekiah who protected Micah, prospered. Did Jehoiak...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The judges in this case, with the assent of the people, acquit the prophet, and vindicate him from the charge of sedition given against him by the corrupt priests and false prophets, distinguishing be...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 26:16 princes H8269 people H5971 said H559 (H8799) priests H3548 prophets H5030 man H376 deserve H4941 d

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A). JEREMIAH DECLARES IN THE TEMPLE THAT IF JUDAH WILL NOT REPENT THEIR SANCTUARY WILL END UP LIKE THAT AT SHILOH, WHICH WAS DESTROYED BY THE PHILISTINES, AND THEIR CITY WILL BE SUBJECT TO YHWH'S CURS...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SECTION 2 SUBSECTION 1 COMMENCING WITH A SPEECH IN THE TEMPLE JEREMIAH WARNS OF WHAT IS COMING AND REPUDIATES THE PROMISES OF THE FALSE PROPHETS, AND WHILE OPPOSED BY THE HIERARCHY, HAS HIS OWN STATUS...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message in the temple court. Spiteful treatment of Jeremiah and his brave stand. Martyrdom of Urijah. CHARACTERS: Jehoiakim, Jeremiah, Micah, Hezekiah, Urijah, Elnathan, Ahikam. CONCLUSION:...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 26:1. _In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim._ See the note on Jeremiah 26:3. Jeremiah 26:2. _Stand in the court of the Lord's house._ See the note on...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _When Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him, the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die._ THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A TRUE PROPHET I. The true prophet has a st...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah._ AFFLICTIONS, DISTRESSES, TUMULTS Jehoiakim was, perhaps, the most despicable of the kings of Judah. Josephus says that he was...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 26:16 The OFFICIALS (judges) and PEOPLE (assembled community) oppose the religious leaders’ wishes....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. About three years earlier than the prophecy of preceding chapter. _Cf_. chapter 7 with this, and it is evident that they are synchronous. E...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    JEREMIAH'S TRIAL AND DELIVERANCE. EXPOSITION The prophecy in Jeremiah 26:2 is a summary of that contained in Jeremiah 7:1; the narrative, which stands in no connection either with...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Jer 26:1-24 through 30. In the twenty-second chapter of Jeremiah the Lord had ordered Jeremiah to go to the king's house, Zedekiah, and prophesy unto him. So these prophecies were those that Jeremiah...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 23:29; Acts 23:9; Acts 25:25; Acts 26:31; Acts 26:32;...

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