Jeremiah 21-36 A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary by (Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries)

302 TRANSLATION, NOTES, AND COMMENTS

Jeremiah 26

And the priests and the prophets

said to the princes and to all the

people, 'A sentence of death for this

man! because he has prophesied to

this city according to what you have

heard with your ears.'

Jer 26:11

Then Jeremiah said to all the

princes and to all the people: 'Yah-

weh sent me ... for in truth, Yahweh

sent me ....

Jer 26:12-15

Then the princes and all the

people said ... 'There should be no

sentence of death for this man .... '

Jer26:16

But the hand of Ahikam ... was

with Jeremiah, so as not to give him

into the hand of the people to put

him to death.

Jer 26:24

Mark 13-15

Now the chief priests and the whole

council sought testimony against Jesus to

put him to death .... And some ... gave

false testimony against him, saying, 'We

heard him say, I will destroy this temple.'

Mark 14:55-58

Again the high priest asked him, Are you

the Christ ...? And Jesus said, 'I am .... '

Mark 14:61-62

And they all condemned him as deserv-

ing death.

Mark 14:64

So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd,

... delivered him [to the people] to be

crucified.

Mark 15:15

D. Jeremiah and the Yoke Bars (27:1-22)

27 1 In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiaha son of Josiah, king of Judah,

this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh.^2 Thus Yahweh said to me:

Make for yourself straps and yoke bars; then you shall put them upon your

neck.^3 You shall also send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of

Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyre, and

to the king of Sidon by the hand of messengers who are coming to Jerusa-

lem, to Zedekiah, king of Judah.^4 And you shall command them to their

masters:

Thus said Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel:

Thus you shall say to your masters:^5 I, I made the earth, human and

beast that are on the face of the earth, with my great strength and with

my outstretched arm, and I give it to whoever seems right in my eyes.

(^6) And now I, I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchad-
nezzar, king of Babylon, my servant; and even the beasts of the field I
"Correction, following a few MSS and S (27:3 and 28:1); MT has "Jehoiakim."