Jeremiah 26:11
Good News Translation
Then the priests and the prophets said to the leaders and to the people, "This man deserves to be sentenced to death because he has spoken against our city. You heard him with your own ears."

New Revised Standard Version
Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, “This man deserves the sentence of death because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”

Contemporary English Version
While they listened, the priests and the prophets said to the crowd, "All of you have heard Jeremiah prophesy that Jerusalem will be destroyed. He deserves the death penalty."

New American Bible
The priests and prophets said to the princes and to all the people, “Sentence this man to death! He has prophesied against this city! You heard it with your own ears.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes, and to all the people, saying: The judgment of death is for this man: because he hath prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes, and to all the people, saying: The judgment of death is for this man: because he hath prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.

saying.

Deuteronomy 18:20 But the prophet, who being corrupted with pride, shall speak in my name things that I did not command him to say, or in the name of strange gods, shall be slain.

Matthew 26:66 What think you? But they answering, said: He is guilty of death.

Luke 23:1-5 And the whole multitude of them, rising up, led him to Pilate. . . .

John 18:30 They answered and said to him: If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up to thee.

John 19:7 The Jews answered him: We have a law; and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

Acts 22:22 And they heard him until this word and then lifted up their voice, saying: Away with such an one from the earth. For it is not fit that he should live.

Acts 24:4-9 But that I be no further tedious to thee, I desire thee of thy clemency to hear us in a few words. . . .

Acts 25:2-13 And the chief priests and principal men of the Jews went unto him against Paul: and they besought him, . . .

This man is worthy to die.

Jeremiah 38:4 And the princes said to the king. We beseech thee that this man may be put to death: for on purpose he weakeneth the hands of the men of war, that remain in this city, and the hands of the people, speaking to them according to these words: for this man seeketh not peace to this people, but evil.

Acts 6:11-14 Then they suborned men to say they had heard him speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God. . . .

Context
The Plot to Murder Jeremiah
10And the princes of Juda heard these words: and they went up from the king's house into the house of the Lord, and sat in the entry of the new gate of the house of the Lord. 11And the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes, and to all the people, saying: The judgment of death is for this man: because he hath prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.12Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes, and to all the people, saying: The Lord sent me to prophesy concerning this house, and concerning this city all the words that you have heard.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:66
What think you? But they answering, said: He is guilty of death.

Acts 6:11
Then they suborned men to say they had heard him speak words of blasphemy against Moses and against God.

Deuteronomy 18:20
But the prophet, who being corrupted with pride, shall speak in my name things that I did not command him to say, or in the name of strange gods, shall be slain.

Jeremiah 18:23
But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto death: not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight: let them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time of thy wrath do thou destroy them.

Jeremiah 26:16
Then the princes, and all the people said to the priests, and to the prophets: There is no judgment of death for this man: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 38:4
And the princes said to the king. We beseech thee that this man may be put to death: for on purpose he weakeneth the hands of the men of war, that remain in this city, and the hands of the people, speaking to them according to these words: for this man seeketh not peace to this people, but evil.

Jeremiah 26:10
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