Jeremiah 11:21 Cross References

Jeremiah 11:21

21: The men of Anathoth wanted me dead. They said they would kill me if I did not stop speaking in the LORD's name.

They tell the prophets, "Shut up! We don't want any more of your reports." They say, "Don't tell us the truth. Tell us nice things. Tell us lies.

I have heard the many rumors about me. They call me "The Man Who Lives in Terror." And they say, "If you say anything, we will report it." Even my old friends are watching me, waiting for a fatal slip. "He will trap himself," they say, "and then we will get our revenge on him."

"But you caused the Nazirites to sin by making them drink your wine, and you said to my prophets, `Shut up!'

Yes, today, tomorrow, and the next day I must proceed on my way. For it wouldn't do for a prophet of God to be killed except in Jerusalem!
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God's messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn't let me.

Then the LORD replied to me, "If racing against mere men makes you tired, how will you race against horses? If you stumble and fall on open ground, what will you do in the thickets near the Jordan?
Even your own brothers, members of your own family, have turned on you. They have plotted, raising a cry against you. Do not trust them, no matter how pleasantly they speak.

Don't bother us here in Bethel with your prophecies, especially not here where the royal sanctuary is!"
But Amos replied, "I'm not one of your professional prophets. I certainly never trained to be one. I'm just a shepherd, and I take care of fig trees.
But the LORD called me away from my flock and told me, `Go and prophesy to my people in Israel.'
"Now then, listen to this message from the LORD! You say, `Don't prophesy against Israel. Stop preaching against my people. '

But when Jeremiah had finished his message, saying everything the LORD had told him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people at the Temple mobbed him. "Kill him!" they shouted.

"Don't imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth! No, I came to bring a sword.
I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
Your enemies will be right in your own household!

I will send you prophets and wise men and teachers of religious law. You will kill some by crucifixion and whip others in your synagogues, chasing them from city to city.
As a result, you will become guilty of murdering all the godly people from righteous Abel to Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered in the Temple between the altar and the sanctuary.
I assure you, all the accumulated judgment of the centuries will break upon the heads of this very generation.
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God's messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn't let me.

Others seized his messengers and treated them shamefully, even killing some of them.

"You stubborn people! You are heathen at heart and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? But your ancestors did, and so do you!
Name one prophet your ancestors didn't persecute! They even killed the ones who predicted the coming of the Righteous One--the Messiah whom you betrayed and murdered.

Now Pashhur son of Immer, the priest in charge of the Temple of the LORD, heard what Jeremiah was saying.
So he arrested Jeremiah the prophet and had him whipped and put in stocks at the Benjamin Gate of the LORD's Temple.

"Don't say such things," the people say. "Don't prophesy like that. Such disasters will never come our way!"
Should you talk that way, O family of Israel? Will the LORD have patience with such behavior? If you would do what is right, you would find my words to be good.
Yet to this very hour my people rise against me! You steal the shirts right off the backs of those who trusted you, making them as ragged as men who have just come home from battle.
You have evicted women from their homes and stripped their children of all their God-given rights.
Up! Begone! This is no longer your land and home, for you have filled it with sin and ruined it completely.

Now Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jehucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malkijah heard what Jeremiah had been telling the people. He was saying,
"This is what the LORD says: Everyone who stays in Jerusalem will die from war, famine, or disease, but those who surrender to the Babylonians will live.
The LORD also says: The city of Jerusalem will surely be handed over to the army of the king of Babylon, who will capture it."
So these officials went to the king and said, "Sir, this man must die! That kind of talk will undermine the morale of the few fighting men we have left, as well as that of all the people, too. This man is a traitor!"
So King Zedekiah agreed. "All right," he said. "Do as you like. I will do nothing to stop you."

For the son despises his father. The daughter defies her mother. The daughter-in-law defies her mother-in-law. Your enemies will be right in your own household.

"Brother will betray brother to death, fathers will betray their own children, and children will rise against their parents and cause them to be killed.

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