Jeremiah 26
Jeremiah 26 is the twenty-sixth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It is numbered as Jeremiah 33 in the Septuagint. This book contains prophecies attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This chapter contains an exhortation to repentance, causing Jeremiah to be apprehended and arraigned ; he gives his apology, resulting the princes to clear him by the example of Micah and of Urijah, and by the care of Ahikam.
Text
The original text of this chapter was written in the Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 24 verses.Textual witnesses
Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis, the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets, Aleppo Codex, Codex Leningradensis. Some fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e., 4QJera with extant verses 10, and 4QJerc with extant verses 10–13.There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Marchalianus.
Parashot
The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex. Jeremiah 26 is a part of the Tenth prophecy in the section of Prophecies interwoven with narratives about the prophet's life . : open parashah; : closed parashah.Verse numbering
The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text, and Vulgate, in some places differs from that in Septuagint according to Rahlfs or Brenton. The following table is taken with minor adjustments from Brenton's Septuagint, page 971.The order of Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint/Scriptural Study based on Alfred Rahlfs' Septuaginta, differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition in Göttingen LXX. Swete's Introduction mostly agrees with Rahlfs edition.
| Hebrew, Vulgate, English | Rahlfs' LXX | Brenton's LXX |
| 26:1–24 | 33:1–24 | |
| 49:34 | 25:20 | 26:1 |
| 46:2–25, 27–28 | 26:2–25, 27–28 |
A warning to the cities of Judah (26:1–6)
Verse 1
The events of this chapter took place at "the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah", whereas the events of the previous chapter took place "in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah". Jehoiakim reigned from 609 to 598 BCE.The New International Version uses less precise wording, Early in the reign...
According to biblical scholar Michael Coogan, "in the beginning of the reign" technically refers to "the part of the year between the day the king ascended to the throne and the beginning of his first full year", which usually began in the spring month of Nisan.
Jeremiah threatened with death (26:7–24)
Verse 18
This prophecy of Micah is recorded in Micah 3:12.- "Temple": literally "house".
Verse 24
- "Shaphan", son of Azaliah, a scribe or secretary of Josiah's court who was mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. He had at least sons named in the Hebrew Bible: Ahikam, Elasah, Gemariah and Jaazaniah, who was among the idol worshippers seen in vision of Ezekiel. His grandson were Micaiah, the son of Gemariah and Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the short-lived governor of Judah appointed by Nebuchadnezzar after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE. The name "Shaphan" is attested in a bullae were discovered during the excavations at the City of David headed by Israeli archeologist Yigal Shiloh in the layer of destruction by the Babylonians in ca. 586 BCE, with the inscription belonging to Gemaryahu ben Shaphan, identified with "Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe" , although it is equally possible that there is no connection between the names found on the bullae and the person mentioned in the Bible.
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