Bible verse
So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who poses as a prophet among you?
Jeremiah 29:27 · BSB
The verses around it, from Jeremiah 29.
23 For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD.”
24 You are to tell Shemaiah the Nehelamite that
25 this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests. You said to Zephaniah:
26 ‘The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada, to be the chief officer in the house of the LORD, responsible for any madman who acts like a prophet—you must put him in stocks and neck irons.
27 So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who poses as a prophet among you?
28 For he has sent to us in Babylon, claiming: Since the exile will be lengthy, build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat their produce.’”
29 (Zephaniah the priest, however, had read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet.)
30 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
31 “Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie,
KJV
Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?
ASV
Now therefore, why hast thou not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who maketh himself a prophet to you,
ERV
Now therefore, why hast thou not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you,
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