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Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of Yahweh, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.
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The 'Madness' of Faith
Shemaiah, the false prophet, urges the priest to punish Jeremiah for being "mad." Commentators explain this was a common insult hurled at God's true prophets (2 Kings 9:11). Their divinely inspired messages and symbolic actions often seemed irrational to the world. This reminds believers that being misunderstood or labeled as extreme for faithfully following God is not a new phenomenon.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A narrative showing the effects of Jeremiah’s letter. Shemaiah the leader of the false prophets wrote to Zephaniah, urging him to restrain the prop…
19th Century
Anglican
The Lord has made you priest in the stead of Jehoiada ... —The priest so named had apparently been deposed, as not favori…
16th Century
Protestant
Here Jeremiah prophesies concerning a third person, who had written a letter to the priests and to the whole people against Jeremiah himself, and h…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The Lord has made you priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest The same with Seraia…
Jeremiah foretells judgments upon the false prophets, who deceived the Jews in Babylon. Lying was bad; lying to the people of the Lord, to delude t…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, the prophet speaks out against an attacker of the truth. This attacker, a false prophet who promised the people that liberation was near, was…
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