Jeremiah 11:21

Lexham English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ Moreover, Yahweh let it be made known to me, and I knew. Then you showed me their deeds. ¹⁹ And I was like a gentle ram-lamb that is brought to slaughter, and I did not know that they planned plans against me, saying, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered." ²⁰ But O Yahweh of hosts, who judges in righteousness, who tests the inmost being, and the mind, let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have revealed my legal case. ²¹ Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the people of Anathoth who seek your life, saying, "You shall not prophesy in the name of Yahweh or you will die by our hand." ²² Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Look, I am about to punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by the famine. ²³ And a remnant will not be left for them, for I will bring disaster to the people of Anathoth, the year of their punishment."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that seek: Jeremiah 12:5, Jeremiah 12:6, Jeremiah 20:10, Micah 7:6, Matthew 10:21, Matthew 10:34-36, Luke 4:24

Prophesy: Isaiah 30:10, Amos 2:12, Amos 7:13-16, Micah 2:6-11

thou: Jeremiah 20:1, Jeremiah 20:2, Jeremiah 38:1-6, Matthew 21:35, Matthew 22:6, Matthew 23:34-37, Luke 13:33, Luke 13:34, Acts 7:51, Acts 7:52

Reciprocal: Exodus 5:23 - in thy name Ezra 2:23 - Anathoth Nehemiah 7:27 - Anathoth Jeremiah 1:1 - in Anathoth Jeremiah 15:15 - know Jeremiah 32:7 - Anathoth Jeremiah 34:20 - and into Amos 2:11 - and Mark 6:4 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore thus saith the Lord of the men of Anathoth,.... That is, "unto", or "concerning the men of Anathoth", the townsmen of Jeremiah, and who were the persons that combined together to destroy him; of this place, :-

that seek thy life; or "soul"; that is, to take it away:

saying, prophesy not in the name of the Lord; without their leave, and such hard things as he did, unless he would prophesy smooth things, and then he might go on, otherwise he must expect to die:

that thou die not by our hand; or means; they intimate, that, should he persist in this way of prophesying, they should not stay to carry on a judicial process against him, to bring him and accuse him before a judge, or the sanhedrim, or any court of judicature; but should do as those called zealots in later times did; lay violent hands upon him, and dispatch him themselves at once; perhaps this they said after they found that the prophet had knowledge of their designs against him.