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Jeremiah 26:4

Tell them that the Lord says, ‘You must obey me! You must live according to the way I have instructed you in my laws.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Impenitence;   Indictments;   Minister, Christian;   Wicked (People);   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Call of God, the;   Jews, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jehoiakim;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Shiloh;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jehoiakim;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Word;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Jeremiah;   Micah;   Micah, Book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ba'ruch;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You are to say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: If you do not listen to me by living according to my instruction that I set before you
Hebrew Names Version
You shall tell them, Thus says the LORD: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
King James Version
And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord ; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
English Standard Version
You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord : If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set before you,
New American Standard Bible
"And you shall say to them, 'This is what the LORD says: "If you do not listen to Me, to walk in My Law which I have set before you,
New Century Version
Say to them: ‘This is what the Lord says: You must obey me and follow my teachings that I gave you.
Amplified Bible
"And you will say to them, 'Thus says the LORD, "If you will not listen to Me and obey My law which I have set before you,
World English Bible
You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And thou shalt say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord, If ye will not heare me to walke in my Lawes, which I haue set before you,
Legacy Standard Bible
And you will say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh, "If you will not listen to Me, to walk in My law which I have given before you,
Berean Standard Bible
And you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: If you do not listen to Me and walk in My law, which I set before you,
Contemporary English Version
Tell them that I have said: You have refused to listen to me and to obey my laws and teachings.
Complete Jewish Bible
So tell them that this is what Adonai says: "If you will not pay attention to me and live according to my Torah, which I have given you,
Darby Translation
And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: If ye will not hearken unto me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
Easy-to-Read Version
You will say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: I gave my teachings to you. You must obey me and follow my teachings.
George Lamsa Translation
And you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law which I have set before you
Good News Translation
The Lord told me to say to the people, "I, the Lord , have said that you must obey me by following the teaching that I gave you,
Lexham English Bible
And you shall say to them, "Thus says Yahweh: ‘If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set before you,
Literal Translation
And you shall say to them, So says Jehovah, If you will not listen to Me, to walk in My Law which I have set before you,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And after this maner shalt thou speake vnto them: Thus saieth the LORDE: yf ye will not obeye me, to walke in my lawes, which I haue geuen you,
American Standard Version
And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
Bible in Basic English
And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: If you do not give ear to me and go in the way of my law which I have put before you,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith the LORD: If ye will not hearken to Me, to walk in My law, which I have set before you,
King James Version (1611)
And thou shalt say vnto them, Thus saith the Lord; If yee will not hearken to mee to walke in my Law, which I haue set before you,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And after this maner shalt thou speake vnto them, Thus saith the Lord: If ye wyll not obey me, to walke in my lawes which I haue geuen you,
English Revised Version
And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD: If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou schalt seie to hem, The Lord seith these thingis, If ye heren not me, that ye go in my lawe which Y yaf to you,
Update Bible Version
And you shall say to them, Thus says Yahweh: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD, If ye will not hearken to me to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
New King James Version
And you shall say to them, "Thus says the LORD: "If you will not listen to Me, to walk in My law which I have set before you,
New Living Translation
"Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: If you will not listen to me and obey my word I have given you,
New Life Bible
And tell them, ‘This is what the Lord says: "If you will not listen to Me and follow My Law which I have set before you,
New Revised Standard
You shall say to them: Thus says the Lord : If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set before you,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore shalt thou say unto them Thus, saith Yahweh, - If ye will not hearken unto me, To walk in my law which I have set before you;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord: If you will not hearken to me to walk in my law, which I have given you:
Revised Standard Version
You shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law which I have set before you,
Young's Literal Translation
`And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah, If ye do not hearken unto Me, to walk in My law, that I set before you,
THE MESSAGE
"Say to them, ‘This is God 's Message: If you refuse to listen to me and live by my teaching that I've revealed so plainly to you, and if you continue to refuse to listen to my servants the prophets that I tirelessly keep on sending to you—but you've never listened! Why would you start now?—then I'll make this Temple a pile of ruins like Shiloh, and I'll make this city nothing but a bad joke worldwide.'"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"And you will say to them, 'Thus says the LORD, "If you will not listen to Me, to walk in My law which I have set before you,

Contextual Overview

1 The Lord spoke to Jeremiah at the beginning of the reign of Josiah's son, King Jehoiakim of Judah. 2 The Lord said, "Go stand in the courtyard of the Lord 's temple. Speak out to all the people who are coming from the towns of Judah to worship in the Lord 's temple. Tell them everything I command you to tell them. Do not leave out a single word! 3 Maybe they will pay attention and each of them will stop living the evil way they do. If they do that, then I will forgo destroying them as I had intended to do because of the wicked things they have been doing. 4 Tell them that the Lord says, ‘You must obey me! You must live according to the way I have instructed you in my laws. 5 You must pay attention to the exhortations of my servants the prophets. I have sent them to you over and over again. But you have not paid any attention to them. 6 If you do not obey me, then I will do to this temple what I did to Shiloh. And I will make this city an example to be used in curses by people from all the nations on the earth.'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

If: Leviticus 26:14-46, Deuteronomy 28:15-68, Deuteronomy 29:18-28, Deuteronomy 31:16-18, Deuteronomy 31:20, Deuteronomy 32:15-25, Joshua 23:15, Joshua 23:16, 1 Kings 9:6, 2 Chronicles 7:19, 2 Chronicles 7:20, Nehemiah 9:26-30, Isaiah 1:20, Isaiah 42:23-25

which: Jeremiah 44:10, Deuteronomy 4:8, Deuteronomy 4:44, Deuteronomy 11:32, Hebrews 6:18

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 17:13 - keep Nehemiah 10:29 - to walk Jeremiah 17:27 - ye will Hosea 9:17 - because

Cross-References

Genesis 13:16
And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.
Genesis 15:5
The Lord took him outside and said, "Gaze into the sky and count the stars—if you are able to count them!" Then he said to him, "So will your descendants be."
Genesis 15:18
That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River—
Genesis 18:18
After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using his name.
Genesis 26:2
The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you.
Genesis 26:3
Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham.
Genesis 26:4
I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.
Genesis 26:8
After Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines happened to look out a window and observed Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
Genesis 26:17
So Isaac left there and settled in the Gerar Valley.
Genesis 26:18
Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug back in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after Abraham died. Isaac gave these wells the same names his father had given them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou shalt say unto them,.... What follows is the substance of the prophecy, and the sum of the sermon or discourse he was sent to deliver, without diminishing a word of it:

thus saith the Lord, if ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law which I have set before you; first by Moses, by whose hands it was given to their fathers; and by the prophets, the interpreters of it to them; before whom it was set as a way for them to walk in, and a rule to walk by; a directory for them in their lives and conversations; and which continues to be so, as it is set before us Christians by our King and Lawgiver Jesus Christ; though not to obtain righteousness and life by the works of it; which should not be sought for, nor are attainable thereby.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 26:4. If ye will not hearken — This and several of the following verses are nearly the same with those in Jeremiah 7:13, &c., where see the notes.


 
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