Reuben also said to them, ‘Don’t shed blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him’ #– #intending to rescue him from them and return him to his father.
Jeremiah 36:25 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah had urged the king not to burn the scroll, he did not listen to them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Even though Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah tried to persuade the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them. American Standard Version (1901) Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll; but he would not hear them. Common English Bible Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah begged the king not to burn the scroll, but he wouldn’t listen to them. Catholic Public Domain Version Yet truly, Elnathan, and Delaiah, and Gemariah contradicted the king, so that he might not burn the book. But he did not listen to them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But yet Elnathan and Dalaias and Gamarias spoke to the king, not to burn the book: and he heard them not. |
Reuben also said to them, ‘Don’t shed blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him’ #– #intending to rescue him from them and return him to his father.
A wicked person puts on a bold face, but the upright one considers his way.
Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, ‘This man doesn’t deserve the death sentence, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God! ’
But King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt: Elnathan son of Achbor and certain other men with him went to Egypt.
Then at the Lord’s temple, in the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper courtyard at the opening of the New Gate of the Lord’s temple, in the hearing of all the people, Baruch read Jeremiah’s words from the scroll.
he went down to the scribe’s chamber in the king’s palace. All the officials were sitting there #– #Elishama the scribe, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.
‘I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,’ he said. ‘What’s that to us? ’ they said. ‘See to it yourself! ’