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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 26:19 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 26:19 |
King James |
Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Hezekiah, so far from killing him, was led "to fear the Lord," and pray for remission of the sentence against Judah (Ch2 32:26).
Lord repented-- (Exo 32:14; Sa2 24:16).
Thus--if we kill Jeremiah. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Thus might we procure ... - Rather, And we should commit a great evil against our own souls; i. e., by putting Jeremiah to death, we should commit a sin which would prove a great misfortune to ourselves. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
fear
(See Scofield) - (Psa 19:9).
repented
(See Scofield) - (Zac 8:14). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Thus - Now, if we should take a quite contrary course, and put this man to death, we should do ourselves no good, but procure great evil against our souls; that is against ourselves. |
16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:
9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.