Jeremiah 26:17
New International Version
Some of the elders of the land stepped forward and said to the entire assembly of people,

New Living Translation
Then some of the wise old men stood and spoke to all the people assembled there.

English Standard Version
And certain of the elders of the land arose and spoke to all the assembled people, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
Some of the elders of the land stood up and said to the whole assembly of the people,

King James Bible
Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,

New King James Version
Then certain of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying:

New American Standard Bible
Then some of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

NASB 1995
Then some of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

NASB 1977
Then some of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then some of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

Amplified Bible
Then some of the elders of the land stood up and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

Christian Standard Bible
Some of the elders of the land stood up and said to all the assembled people,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Some of the elders of the land stood up and said to all the assembled people,

American Standard Version
Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the men of the Elders of the land stood, and they said to the whole multitude of the people:

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And there rose up men of the elders of the land, and said to all the assembly of the people,

Contemporary English Version
Then some of the leaders from other towns stepped forward. They told the crowd that

Douay-Rheims Bible
And some of the ancients of the land rose up: and they spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying:

English Revised Version
Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then some of the leaders in the land got up and said to the entire crowd,

Good News Translation
After that, some of the elders stood up and said to the people who had gathered,

International Standard Version
Some of the elders of the land got up and told all the assembled people,

JPS Tanakh 1917
Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying:

Literal Standard Version
And men from [the] elderly of the land rise up and speak to all the assembly of the people, saying,

Majority Standard Bible
Some of the elders of the land stood up and said to the whole assembly of the people,

New American Bible
At this, some of the elders of the land arose and said to the whole assembly of the people,

NET Bible
Then some of the elders of Judah stepped forward and spoke to all the people gathered there. They said,

New Revised Standard Version
And some of the elders of the land arose and said to all the assembled people,

New Heart English Bible
Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
Then arose certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

World English Bible
Then certain of the elders of the land rose up, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

Young's Literal Translation
And certain of the elders of the land rise up, and speak unto all the assembly of the people, saying,

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Context
Jeremiah Spared from Death
16Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man is not worthy of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God!” 17Some of the elders of the land stood up and said to the whole assembly of the people, 18“Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.’…

Cross References
Acts 5:34
But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was honored by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men be put outside for a short time.

Jeremiah 26:18
"Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.'


Treasury of Scripture

Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

Micah.

Micah 1:1
The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

Zion.

Micah 3:12
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 9:11
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51:37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

2 Kings 19:25
Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.

the mountain.

Jeremiah 17:3
O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.

Isaiah 2:2,3
And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it…

Micah 4:1
But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.

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Jeremiah 26
1. Jeremiah by promises and threats exhorts to repentance.
8. He is therefore apprehended,
10. and arraigned.
12. His apology.
16. He is quit in judgment, by the example of Micah,
20. and of Urijah,
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(17) Certain of the elders of the land.--The word is probably to be taken rather in the literal than in an official sense--or, if officially, then as including the literal meaning also. The elders speaking in the time of Jehoiakim (cir. B.C. 608) remembered the tradition of what had passed, a century or so before, in the reign of Hezekiah (B.C. 726-698), and could appeal to it as a precedent in favour of the prophet. The word for "assembly" (elsewhere rendered "congregation") corresponds to the Ecclesia of a Greek city.

Verse 17. - The elders of the land add their voice in favor of Jeremiah, not, however, without first of all consulting the people whose representatives they are. The whole verse is thoroughly technical in its phraseology. The word (qahal) rendered "assembly" is the traditional legal term for the "congregation of Israel" (Deuteronomy 31:30); comp. ver. 9, where the verb is the corresponding one to qahal. Thus, with all the faults of the government of Judah, which Jeremiah himself reveals to us, it was very far removed from the Oriental despotisms of our day. The "elders" are still an important element in the social system, and form a link with that earlier period in which the family was the leading power in the social organization. Originally the term denoted, strictly and in the full sense, heads of families; they have their analogue in the councils of the Aryan village communities. "References to their parliamentary status (if the phrase may be used) occur in Exodus 3:16; 2 Samuel 19:11; 1 Kings 8:1; 1 Kings 20:7. The institution lingered on during and after the Babylonian Exile (Jeremiah 29:1; Ezekiel 14:1; Ezekiel 20:1; Ezra 5:5; Ezra 6:7; Ezra 10:14; Matthew 26:3, 47; Mark 14:43; Acts 4:5, etc.)." We find another reference to their quasi-judicial authority in Deuteronomy 21:2.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Some of the elders
מִזִּקְנֵ֖י (miz·ziq·nê)
Preposition-m | Adjective - masculine plural construct
Strong's 2205: Old

of the land
הָאָ֑רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

stood up
וַיָּקֻ֣מוּ (way·yā·qu·mū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

and said
וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ (way·yō·mə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the whole
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

assembly
קְהַ֥ל (qə·hal)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6951: Assembly, convocation, congregation

of the people,
הָעָ֖ם (hā·‘ām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock


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