King James Version
Jeremiah 26:7 in the King James Version says “So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 26 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.”
Jeremiah 26:7 · KJV
To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;
Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.
Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.
Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“heard”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
“So the priests”
H3548literally one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“and all the people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“speaking”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“these words”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
“in the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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