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14As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you.

Jeremiah 26:14

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.

  • Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.

  • But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.

  • Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.

Commentary

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

(vv. 7-15)

One would have hoped that such a sermon as that in the Jer. 26:1-6, so plain and practical, so rational and pathetic, and delivered in God’s name, would work upon even this people, especially meeting them now at their devotions, and would prevail with them to repent and reform; but, instead of awakening their convictions, it did but exasperate their corruptions, as appears by this account of the e…

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