Jeremiah 26:16

Easy To Read Version

Then the rulers and all the people spoke. Those people said to the priests and the prophets, “Jeremiah must not be killed. The things Jeremiah told us come from the Lord our God.”

Cross References

Esther 4:14

If you keep quiet now, help and freedom for the Jews will come from another place. But you and your father’s family will all die. And who knows, maybe you have been chosen to be the queen for such a time as this?”

Psalm 94:16

No person helped me fight\par against the evil people.\par No person stood with me to fight\par against the people who do bad things.\par

Proverbs 16:7

If a person is living a good life, pleasing to the Lord, then even that person’s enemies will be at peace with him.

Jeremiah 26:11

Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the rulers and all the other people. They said, “Jeremiah should be killed. He said bad things about Jerusalem. You heard him say those things.”

Jeremiah 34:10

So all the leaders of Judah and all the people accepted this agreement. Every person would free their male and female slaves and no longer keep them as slaves. Every person agreed, and so all the slaves were set free.

Jeremiah 36:19

Then the royal officials said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah must go and hide. Don’t tell anyone where you are hiding.”

Jeremiah 36:25

Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah tried to talk King Jehoiakim into not burning the scroll {\cf2\super [313]} But the king would not listen to them.

Jeremiah 37:15

Those officials were very angry with Jeremiah. They gave an order for Jeremiah to be beaten. Then they put Jeremiah in a prison. The prison was in the house of a man named Jonathan. Jonathan was a scribe {\cf2\super [322]} for the king of Judah. Jonathan’s house had been made into a prison.

Matthew 27:54

The army officer {\cf2\super [435]} and the soldiers guarding Jesus saw this earthquake and everything that happened. They were very afraid and said, “He really was the Son of God!”

Luke 23:41

You and I are guilty; we should be killed because we did wrong. But this man (Jesus) has done nothing wrong!”

Luke 23:47

The army officer {\cf2\super [383]} there saw what happened. He praised God, saying, “I know this man was a good man!”

Acts 23:29

This is what I learned: The Jews said Paul did some things that were wrong. But these charges were about their own Jewish laws. And none of these things were worthy of jail or death.

Acts 23:9

All these Jews began shouting louder and louder. Some of the teachers of the law, who were Pharisees, stood up and argued, “We find nothing wrong with this man! Maybe an angel or a spirit really did speak to him!”

Acts 25:25

When I judged him, I could find nothing wrong. I found no reason to order his death. But he asked to be judged by Caesar. {\cf2\super [484]} So I decided to send him \{to Rome\}.