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Jeremiah 26:9 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 26 · verse 9
Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.Jeremiah 26:9 · King James Version
Jeremiah 26:9 in context
7So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.
8Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.
9Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
10When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king’s house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD’s house.
11Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- prophesiednâbâʼto prophesyH5012 →
- inhabitantyâshabproperly, to sit downH3427 →
- desolatechârabto parchH2717 →
- sayingʼâmarto sayH559 →
- ShilohShîylôhShiloh, a place in PalestineH7887 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
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One would have hoped that such a sermon as that in the foregoing verses, so plain and practical, so rational and pathetic, and delivered in God's name, would work upon even this people, especially meeting them now at their devotions, and would prevail with them to repent and reform;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-15