Jeremiah 2:30

2:30 “It did no good for me to punish your people.

They did not respond to such correction.

You slaughtered your prophets

like a voracious lion.” ¹ 

Jeremiah 2:34

2:34 Even your clothes are stained with

the lifeblood of the poor who had not done anything wrong;

you did not catch them breaking into your homes. ² 

Yet, in spite of all these things you have done, ³ 

Jeremiah 7:31-32

7:31 They have also built places of worship ⁴  in a place called Topheth ⁵  in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so that they can sacrifice their sons and daughters by fire. That is something I never commanded them to do! Indeed, it never even entered my mind to command such a thing! ⁶  7:32 So, watch out!” ⁷  says the Lord. “The time will soon come when people will no longer call those places Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom. But they will call that valley ⁸  the Valley of Slaughter and they will bury so many people in Topheth they will run out of room. ⁹ 

Jeremiah 22:17

22:17 But you are always thinking and looking

for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means.

Your eyes and your heart are set

on killing some innocent person

and committing fraud and oppression. ¹⁰ 

Jeremiah 26:15

26:15 But you should take careful note of this: If you put me to death, you will bring on yourselves and this city and those who live in it the guilt of murdering an innocent man. For the Lord has sent me to speak all this where you can hear it. That is the truth!” ¹¹ 

Jeremiah 26:23

26:23 and they brought Uriah back from there. ¹²  They took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him executed and had his body thrown into the burial place of the common people. ¹³ 

Jeremiah 26:2

26:2 The Lord said, “Go stand in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple. ¹⁴  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!

Jeremiah 21:6

21:6 I will kill everything living in Jerusalem, ¹⁵  people and animals alike! They will die from terrible diseases.

Jeremiah 21:1

The Lord Will Hand Jerusalem over to Enemies

21:1 The Lord spoke to Jeremiah ¹⁶  when King Zedekiah ¹⁷  sent to him Pashhur son of Malkijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. ¹⁸  Zedekiah sent them to Jeremiah to ask, ¹⁹ 

Jeremiah 24:4

24:4 The Lord said to me, ²⁰ 

Isaiah 59:7

59:7 They are eager to do evil, ²¹ 

quick to shed innocent blood. ²² 

Their thoughts are sinful;

they crush and destroy. ²³ 

Lamentations 4:13

מ (Mem)

4:13 But it happened ²⁴  due to the sins of her prophets ²⁵ 

and the iniquities of her priests,

who poured out in her midst

the blood of the righteous.

Matthew 23:34-35

23:34 “For this reason I ²⁶  am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, ²⁷  some of whom you will kill and crucify, ²⁸  and some you will flog ²⁹  in your synagogues ³⁰  and pursue from town to town, 23:35 so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, ³¹  whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Luke 11:50

11:50 so that this generation may be held accountable ³²  for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning ³³  of the world, ³⁴ 

Revelation 16:6

16:6 because they poured out the blood of your saints and prophets,

so ³⁵  you have given them blood to drink. They got what they deserved!” ³⁶ 

[2:30]  ¹ tn Heb “Your sword devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.” However, the reference to the sword in this and many similar idioms is merely idiomatic for death by violent means.

[2:34]  ² tn The words “for example” are implicit and are supplied in the translation for clarification. This is only one example of why their death was not legitimate.

[2:34]  ³ tn KJV and ASV read this line with 2:34. The ASV makes little sense and the KJV again erroneously reads the archaic second person feminine singular perfect as first person common singular. All the modern English versions and commentaries take this line with 2:35.

[7:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “high places.”

[7:31]  ⁵ tn Heb “the high places of [or in] Topheth.”

[7:31]  ⁶ tn Heb “It never entered my heart.” The words “to command such a thing” do not appear in the Hebrew but are added for the sake of clarity.

[7:32]  ⁷ tn Heb “Therefore, behold!”

[7:32]  ⁸ tn Heb “it will no longer be said ‘Topheth’ or ‘the Valley of Ben Hinnom’ but ‘the valley of slaughter.’

[7:32]  ⁹ tn Heb “And they will bury in Topheth so there is not room.”

[22:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Your eyes and your heart do not exist except for dishonest gain and for innocent blood to shed [it] and for fraud and for oppression to do [them].” The sentence has been broken up to conform more to English style and the significance of “eyes” and “heart” explained before they are introduced into the translation.

[26:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “For in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak in your ears all these words/things.”

[26:23]  ¹² tn Heb “from Egypt.”

[26:23]  ¹³ sn The burial place of the common people was the public burial grounds, distinct from the family tombs, where poor people without any distinction were buried. It was in the Kidron Valley east of Jerusalem (2 Kgs 23:6). The intent of reporting this is to show the ruthlessness of Jehoiakim.

[26:2]  ¹⁴ 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.

[21:6]  ¹⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[21:1]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord.”

[21:1]  ¹⁷ sn Zedekiah was the last king of Judah. He ruled from 597 b.c. when he was placed on the throne by Nebuchadnezzar (2 Kgs 24:17) until the fall of Jerusalem in 587/6 b.c. He acquiesced to some of his anti-Babylonian counselors, rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar, and sought help from the Egyptians (Ezek 17:12-15). This brought Nebuchadnezzar against the city in 588 b.c. This is the first of two delegations to Jeremiah. The later one was sent after Nebuchadnezzar withdrew to take care of the Egyptian threat (cf. Jer 37:1-9).

[21:1]  ¹⁸ sn The Pashhur son of Malkijah referred to here is not the same as the Pashhur referred to in 20:1-6 who was the son of Immer. This Pashhur is referred to later in 38:1. The Zephaniah referred to here was the chief of security referred to later in Jer 29:25-26. He appears to have been favorably disposed toward Jeremiah.

[21:1]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “sent to him…Maaseiah, saying,….”

[24:4]  ²⁰ tn Heb “The word of the Lord came to me.”

[59:7]  ²¹ tn Heb “their feet run to evil.”

[59:7]  ²² tn Heb “they quickly pour out innocent blood.”

[59:7]  ²³ tn Heb “their thoughts are thoughts of sin, destruction and crushing [are] in their roadways.”

[4:13]  ²⁴ tn These words do not appear in the Hebrew, but are supplied to make sense of the line. The introductory causal preposition מִן (min) (“because”) indicates that this phrase – or something like it – is implied through elision.

[4:13]  ²⁵ tn There is no main verb in the verse; it is an extended prepositional phrase. One must either assume a verbal idea such as “But it happened due to…” or connect it to the following verses, which themselves are quite difficult. The former option was employed in the present translation.

[23:34]  ²⁶ tn Grk “behold I am sending.” The Greek word ἰδού (idou) has not been translated because it has no exact English equivalent here, but adds interest and emphasis (BDAG 468 s.v. 1).

[23:34]  ²⁷ tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.

[23:34]  ²⁸ sn See the note on crucified in 20:19.

[23:34]  ²⁹ tn BDAG 620 s.v. μαστιγόω 1.a states, “of flogging as a punishment decreed by the synagogue (Dt 25:2f; s. the Mishna Tractate Sanhedrin-Makkoth, edited w. notes by SKrauss ’33) w. acc. of pers. Mt 10:17; 23:34.”

[23:34]  ³⁰ sn See the note on synagogues in 4:23.

[23:35]  ³¹ sn Spelling of this name (Βαραχίου, Baraciou) varies among the English versions: “Barachiah” (RSV, NRSV); “Berechiah” (NASB); “Berachiah” (NIV).

[11:50]  ³² tn Or “that this generation may be charged with”; or “the blood of all the prophets… may be required from this generation.” This is a warning of judgment. These people are responsible for the shedding of prophetic blood.

[11:50]  ³³ tn Or “foundation.” However, this does not suggest a time to the modern reader.

[11:50]  ³⁴ tn The order of the clauses in this complicated sentence has been rearranged to simplify it for the modern reader.

[16:6]  ³⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate that this judgment is the result of what these wicked people did to the saints and prophets.

[16:6]  ³⁶ tn Grk “They are worthy”; i.e., of this kind of punishment. By extension, “they got what they deserve.”