Jeremiah 21:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 21

⁸And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

Jeremiah 21:8 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 30:19
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Deuteronomy 30:15
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
Deuteronomy 11:26
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
Isaiah 1:19-20
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-14)

By the civil message which the king sent to Jeremiah it appeared that both he and the people began to have a respect for him, which it would have been Jeremiah’s policy to make some advantage of for himself; but the reply which God obliges him to make is enough to crush the little respect they begin to have for him, and to exasperate them against him more than ever. Not only the predictions in the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. “Life,” if ye surrender; “death,” if ye persist in opposing the Chaldees (compare De 30:19). The individuality of Jeremiah’s mission from God is shown in that he urges to unconditional surrender; whereas all former prophets had urged the people to oppose their invaders (Is 7:16; 37:33, 35).