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Jeremiah 26:4-6

You shall tell them, “Yahweh says: ‘If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you, to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened; then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”

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In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from Yahweh: “Yahweh says: ‘Stand in the court of Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word. It may be they will listen, and every man turn from his evil way; that I may relent from the evil which I intend to do to them because of the evil of their doings.’ You shall tell them, “Yahweh says: ‘If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you, to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened; then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”

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  • WEB World English Bible

    You shall tell them, “Yahweh says: ‘If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

    to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened;

    then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”

  • KJV King James Version

    And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

    To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;

    Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

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  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith the LORD: If ye will not hearken to Me, to walk in My law, which I have set before you,

    to hearken to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I send unto you, even sending them betimes and often, but ye have not hearkened;

    then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.'

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  • Jeremiah 11:7 (v5) For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and…
  • Jeremiah 24:9 (v6) I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt…
  • 1 Kings 9:6 (v4) But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but…
  • 2 Kings 9:7 (v5) You must strike your master Ahab’s house, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of…
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  • Jeremiah 44:10 (v4) They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before…
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  • Daniel 9:6-10 (v5) We haven’t listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people…
  • Daniel 9:11 (v6) Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice. “Therefore the curse and the oath written…
  • Amos 3:7 (v5) Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
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  • Deuteronomy 31:20 (v4) For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled…
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  • Joshua 18:1 (v6) The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land…
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  • 2 Kings 17:13 (v5) Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments…
  • 2 Kings 17:23 (v5) until Yahweh removed Israel out of his sight, as he said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land…
  • 2 Kings 24:2 (v5) Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon,…
  • 2 Chronicles 7:19-20 (v4) But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and…
  • Nehemiah 9:26-30 (v4) “Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against…
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  • Isaiah 43:28 (v6) Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult.”
  • Jeremiah 29:22 (v6) A curse will be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab,…
  • Jeremiah 42:18 (v6) For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and my wrath has been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath…
  • Jeremiah 44:8-12 (v6) in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to…
  • Jeremiah 44:22 (v6) Thus Yahweh could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed.…
  • Malachi 4:6 (v6) He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth…
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain On vv4–6 The Prophet now briefly includes what he had been…

The Prophet now briefly includes what he had been teaching, what he had been commanded to declare to the people. No doubt he spoke to them more at large; but he deemed it enough to shew in a few words what had been committed to him. And the sum of it was, that except the Jews so hearkend as to walk in God’s Law, and were submissive to the prophets, final ruin was nigh the Temple and the city. This is the meaning: but it may be useful to consider every particular.

By these words, Except ye hearken to me, to walk in my law, God intimates, that he mainly requires obedience, and esteems nothing as much, according to what he says, that it is better than all sacrifices. (1 Samuel 15:22.) This subject was largely treated in the seventh chapter, where he said,

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“Did I command your fathers when they came out of Egypt to offer sacrifices to me? this only I required, even to hear my voice.” (Jeremiah 7:22, 23)

We hence see, that the only way of living piously, justly, holily, and uprightly, is to allow ourselves to be ruled by the Lord. This is one thing. Then what follows is worthy of being noticed, To walk in my law God here testifies that his will is not ambiguous or doubtful, for he has prescribed what is right in his law. Were God then to descend a hundred times from heaven, he would bring nothing but this message, that he has spoken what is necessary to be known, and that his Law is the most perfect wisdom. Had he said only, “Hear me,” men might have still evaded and avowed themselves ready to learn. God therefore does here silence hypocrites, and says that he required nothing else but to follow his Law. And for the same purpose he adds what follows, which I have set before you: for this kind of speaking intimates that the doctrine of the Law was by no means obscure or doubtful, as Moses said,

“I this day call heaven and earth to witness, that I have set life and death before your eyes.” (Deuteronomy 30:19)

And in another place he said,

“Say not, Who shall ascend above the clouds? or, Who shall descend into the abyss? or, Who shall pass beyond the sea? The word is in thy heart and in thy mouth,” (Deuteronomy 30:12-14; Romans 10:6-8)

as though he had said, “God has deprived you of every excuse, for there is no reason for doubting, since he has spoken so familiarly to you, and has explained everything necessary to be known.”

And hereby is confuted the impious blasphemy of the Papists, who impudently assert that not only the Law is obscure, but also the Gospel. And Paul also loudly declares, that the Gospel is not obscure except to those who perish, and who have a veil over their hearts, being visited with judicial blindness. But as to the Law, in which there is no such plainness as in the Gospel, we see what Jeremiah affirms here, that it was set before the eyes of all, that they might learn from it what pleased God, and what was just and right.

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v6 Read Jer. 7:12.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv4–6 Jer 26:4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv4–6 A course of actions in Scripture is ordinarily called…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv4–6 And thou shalt say unto them,.... What follows is…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v4 Verse 4. If ye will not hearken] This and…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v6 Silo. Chap. vii. 12. (Calmet) --- Curse. No greater…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv5–6 prophets--the inspired interpreters of the law (Jer 26:4), who…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On v6 6. Shiloh — Where God once dwelt. Compare Jer_7:14.…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv4–6 4. my law] See on Jer_8:8. Here the reference,…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv4, 6 (4, 5) To walk in my law, which I…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv4, 6 Vers. 4-6. The contents of the discourse. (see especially…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v4 If you do not listen to me so as…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v4 26:4-6 The people’s ancestors had chosen the way of…
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