Jeremiah 29:24

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About Shemaiah the Nehelamite.

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  • Jer 29:31-32 : 31 Send to all those who have been taken away, saying, This is what the Lord has said about Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has been acting as a prophet to you, and I did not send him, and has made you put your faith in what is false; 32 For this cause the Lord has said, Truly I will send punishment on Shemaiah and on his seed; not a man of his family will have a place among this people, and he will not see the good which I am going to do to my people, says the Lord: because he has said words against the Lord.

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  • Jer 29:29-32
    4 verses
    84%

    29 And Zephaniah the priest made clear to Jeremiah the prophet what was said in the letter, reading it to him.

    30 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, saying,

    31 Send to all those who have been taken away, saying, This is what the Lord has said about Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has been acting as a prophet to you, and I did not send him, and has made you put your faith in what is false;

    32 For this cause the Lord has said, Truly I will send punishment on Shemaiah and on his seed; not a man of his family will have a place among this people, and he will not see the good which I am going to do to my people, says the Lord: because he has said words against the Lord.

  • Jer 29:25-27
    3 verses
    81%

    25 Shemaiah the Nehelamite sent a letter in his name to Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,

    26 The Lord has made you priest in place of Jehoiada the priest, to be an overseer in the house of the Lord for every man who is off his head and is acting as a prophet, to put such men in prison and in chains.

    27 So why have you made no protest against Jeremiah of Anathoth, who is acting as a prophet to you?

  • Jer 29:20-23
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    79%

    20 And now, give ear to the word of the Lord, all you whom I have sent away prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.

    21 This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said about Ahab, the son of Kolaiah, and about Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who are saying to you what is false in my name: See, I will give them up into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and he will put them to death before your eyes.

    22 And their fate will be used as a curse by all the prisoners of Judah who are in Babylon, who will say, May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, who were burned in the fire by the king of Babylon;

    23 Because they have done shame in Israel, and have taken their neighbours' wives, and in my name have said false words, which I did not give them orders to say; and I myself am the witness, says the Lord.

  • Isa 22:15
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    15 The Lord, the Lord of armies, says, Go to this person in authority, this Shebna, who is over the house; who has made himself a resting-place on high, cutting out a place for himself in the rock, and say,

  • Jer 29:3
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    3 By the hand of Elasah, the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah, the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah, king of Judah, sent to Babylon, to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,) saying,

  • 2 Chr 34:26
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    26 But to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from the Lord, say, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: Because you have given ear to my words,

  • 1 Kgs 12:22-23
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    71%

    22 But the word of God came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying,

    23 Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the men of Judah and Benjamin and the rest of the people:

  • 2 Chr 11:2
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    2 But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying,

  • Jer 27:3-4
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    3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Zidon, by their servants who come to Jerusalem, to Zedekiah, king of Judah;

    4 And give them orders to say to their masters, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Say to your masters,

  • Jer 28:15
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    15 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Give ear, now, Hananiah; the Lord has not sent you; but you are making this people put their faith in what is false.

  • 2 Kgs 22:15-16
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    70%

    15 And she said to them, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, Say to the man who sent you to me,

    16 These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even everything which the king of Judah has been reading in the book;

  • 2 Chr 34:23-24
    2 verses
    70%

    23 And she said to them, The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Say to the man who sent you to me,

    24 These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even all the curses in the book which they have been reading before the king of Judah;

  • Jer 21:3
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    3 Then Jeremiah said to them, This is what you are to say to Zedekiah:

  • 2 Kgs 22:18
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    18 But to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from the Lord, say, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: As to the words which have come to your ears,

  • Neh 10:24
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    24 Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,

  • Ezra 10:39
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    39 And Shelemiah and Nathan and Adaiah,

  • Jer 27:15-16
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    69%

    15 For I have not sent them, says the Lord, but they are saying what is false in my name, so that I might send you out by force, causing destruction to come on you and on your prophets.

    16 And I said to the priests and to all the people, This is what the Lord has said: Give no attention to the words of your prophets who say to you, See, in a very little time now the vessels of the Lord's house will come back again from Babylon: for what they say to you is false.

  • Jer 23:37
    69%

    37 This is what you are to say to the prophet, What answer has the Lord given to you? and, What has the Lord said?

  • Neh 6:10
    69%

    10 And I went to the house of Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us have a meeting in the house of God, inside the Temple, and let the doors be shut: for they will come to put you to death; truly, in the night they will come to put you to death.

  • Jer 29:9
    69%

    9 For they are saying to you what is false in my name: I have not sent them, says the Lord.

  • Neh 6:7
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    7 And that you have prophets preaching about you in Jerusalem, and saying, There is a king in Judah: now an account of these things will be sent to the king. So come now, and let us have a discussion.

  • Jer 26:12
    68%

    12 Then Jeremiah said to all the rulers and to all the people, The Lord has sent me as his prophet to say against this house and against this town all the words which have come to your ears.

  • Jer 26:9
    68%

    9 Why have you said in the name of the Lord, This house will be like Shiloh, and this land a waste with no one living in it? And all the people had come together to Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

  • Jer 22:1
    68%

    1 This is what the Lord has said: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and there give him this word,

  • 2 Chr 12:5
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    5 Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the chiefs of Judah, who had come together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, The Lord has said, Because you have given me up, I have given you up into the hands of Shishak.

  • Neh 12:34
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    34 Judah and Benjamin and Shemaiah and Jeremiah,

  • Jer 28:7
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    7 But still, give ear to this word which I am saying to you and to all the people:

  • Jer 23:35
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    35 But this is what you are to say, every man to his neighbour and every man to his brother, What answer has the Lord given? and, What has the Lord said?

  • Jer 21:11
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    11 About the family of the king of Judah. Give ear to the word of the Lord;

  • Jer 26:2
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    2 This is what the Lord has said: Take your place in the open square of the Lord's house and say to all the towns of Judah, who come into the Lord's house for worship, everything I give you orders to say to them: keep back not a word;

  • Jer 36:12
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    12 Went down to the king's house, to the scribe's room: and all the rulers were seated there, Elishama the scribe and Delaiah, the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan, the son of Achbor, and Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah, the son of Hananiah, and all the rulers.

  • Ezek 24:15
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    15 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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    16 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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    16 For this is what the Lord has said about the king who is seated on the seat of David's kingdom, and about all the people living in this town, your countrymen who have not gone out with you as prisoners;

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    5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, before the priests and all the people who had come into the house of the Lord,

  • Ezra 10:41
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    41 Azarel and Shelemiah, Shemariah,

  • Zech 6:9
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    9 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,