1 Kings 22:14

22:14 But Micaiah said, “As certainly as the Lord lives, I will say what the Lord tells me to say.”

Jeremiah 26:2-3

26:2 The Lord said, “Go stand in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple. ¹  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! 26:3 Maybe they will pay attention and each of them will stop living the evil way they do. ²  If they do that, then I will forgo destroying them ³  as I had intended to do because of the wicked things they have been doing. ⁴ 

Acts 20:26-27

20:26 Therefore I declare ⁵  to you today that I am innocent ⁶  of the blood of you all. ⁷  20:27 For I did not hold back from ⁸  announcing ⁹  to you the whole purpose ¹⁰  of God.

[26:2]  ¹ sn It is generally agreed that the incident recorded in this chapter relates to the temple message that Jeremiah gave in 7:1-15. The message there is summarized here in vv. 3-6. The primary interest here is in the response to that message.

[26:3]  ² tn Heb “will turn from his wicked way.”

[26:3]  ³ tn For the idiom and translation of terms involved here see 18:8 and the translator’s note there.

[26:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “because of the wickedness of their deeds.”

[20:26]  ⁵ tn Or “testify.”

[20:26]  ⁶ tn Grk “clean, pure,” thus “guiltless” (BDAG 489 s.v. καθαρός 3.a).

[20:26]  ⁷ tn That is, “that if any of you should be lost, I am not responsible” (an idiom). According to L&N 33.223, the meaning of the phrase “that I am innocent of the blood of all of you” is “that if any of you should be lost, I am not responsible.” However, due to the length of this phrase and its familiarity to many modern English readers, the translation was kept closer to formal equivalence in this case. The word “you” is not in the Greek text, but is implied; Paul is addressing the Ephesian congregation (in the person of its elders) in both v. 25 and 27.

[20:27]  ⁸ tn Or “did not avoid.” BDAG 1041 s.v. ὑποστέλλω 2.b has “shrink from, avoid implying fear…οὐ γὰρ ὑπεστειλάμην τοῦ μὴ ἀναγγεῖλαι I did not shrink from proclaiming Ac 20:27”; L&N 13.160 has “to hold oneself back from doing something, with the implication of some fearful concern – ‘to hold back from, to shrink from, to avoid’…‘for I have not held back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God’ Ac 20:27.”

[20:27]  ⁹ tn Or “proclaiming,” “declaring.”

[20:27]  ¹⁰ tn Or “plan.”