Isaiæ 29:26

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Dominus dedit te sacerdotem pro Jojade sacerdote, ut sis dux in domo Domini, super omnem virum arreptitium et prophetantem, ut mittas eum in nervum et in carcerem:

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Dominus dedit te sacerdotem pro Jojade sacerdote, ut sis dux in domo Domini, super omnem virum arreptitium et prophetantem, ut mittas eum in nervum et in carcerem :

Nova Vulgata (1979)
"Dominus dedit te sacerdotem pro Ioiada sacerdote, ut sis praefectus in domo Domini super omnem virum arrepticium et prophetantem, ut mittas eum in nervum et in vincula.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

officers: Jeremiah 20:1, Jeremiah 20:2, 2 Kings 11:15, 2 Kings 11:18, Acts 4:1, Acts 5:24

for every: 2 Kings 9:11, Hosea 9:7, Mark 3:21, John 10:20, Acts 26:11, Acts 26:24, 2 Corinthians 5:13-15

and maketh: Jeremiah 29:27, Deuteronomy 13:1-5, Zechariah 13:3-6, Matthew 21:23, John 8:53, John 10:33

that thou: Jeremiah 20:1, Jeremiah 20:2, Jeremiah 38:6, Jeremiah 38:28, 2 Chronicles 16:10, 2 Chronicles 18:26, Acts 5:18, Acts 16:24, 2 Corinthians 11:33, Revelation 2:10

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 18:10 - and he prophesied 1 Kings 22:24 - Which way 1 Kings 22:27 - Put this fellow 2 Chronicles 18:23 - Which way 2 Chronicles 25:16 - forbear 2 Chronicles 35:8 - rulers Isaiah 59:15 - maketh himself a prey Jeremiah 20:7 - I am Amos 7:10 - the priest Matthew 11:18 - He Mark 12:3 - they Luke 20:10 - beat Acts 26:12 - with Hebrews 11:36 - bonds

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest,.... The same with Seraiah, who might have more names than one, and Jehoiada be one of them, who either was removed, or carried captive; and this Zephaniah, his sagan of deputy, succeeded him. Some think he refers to the famous Jehoiada in the times of Joash, a great reformer; and that this man was another such an one for his zeal, or at least ought to be, which he would have him exert against Jeremiah; but the former seems most probable:

that ye should be officers in the house of the Lord; or "visitors", or "overseers" i there; that is, Zephaniah, and the rest of the priests; or that he should see to it, that there were proper officers set there, to take care of it, and suffer none to come in and prophesy there, to the hurt of the people, as he would insinuate:

for every man [that is] mad, and maketh himself a prophet; or, "against every man" k; to prevent all enthusiastic persons, and such as are troubled with a frenzy in their brain, and set up themselves for prophets, from speaking in the name of the Lord; so the true prophets of old, and the apostles of Christ, and faithful ministers of the word, have always been represented as beside themselves, and as taking upon them an office that did not belong to them; and therefore should be restrained and persecuted by the higher powers:

that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks; the former of these words, according to the Hebrew, signifies an engine or instrument, in which the neck was put, like our pillory; and the latter an iron instrument for the hands, a manacle, or handcuff, as Kimchi; see Jeremiah 20:2; though this rather better agrees with the pillory, being a strait narrow place, in which the hands, feet, and neck, were put l.

i פקידים "inspectores", Cocceius, Gataker. k לכל איש "adversus omnem virum", Calvin; "contra omnem virum", Schmidt. l Vid. Hottinger. Smegma Orientale, l. 1. c. 7. p. 190.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A narrative showing the effects of Jeremiah’s letter. Shemaiah the leader of the false prophets wrote to Zephaniah, urging him to restrain the prophet’s zeal with the prison and the stocks.

Jeremiah 29:24

To Shemaiah - Rather, concerning.

The Nehelamite - Not as in the margin; but one belonging to the village of Nehlam (unknown).

Jeremiah 29:26

Officers - Deputy high priests who had the oversight of the temple.

Mad - See 2 Kings 9:11 note. Many of the symbolic actions of the prophets, such as that of Jeremiah going about with a yoke on his neck, would be mocked at by the irreverent as passing the line between prophecy and madness.

Prisons - Rather, the stocks Jeremiah 20:2.

The stocks - Rather, collar.

Jeremiah 29:28

This captivity is long - Rather, It is long. God’s anger, their punishment, the exile, the time necessary for their repentance - all is long to men who will never live to see their country again.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 29:26. For every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet — Mad, משגע meshugga, in ecstatic rapture; such as appeared in the prophets, whether true or false, when under the influence, the one of God, the other of a demon. See 2 Kings 9:11; Hosea 9:7.