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Jeremiah 26:8

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26:8Jeremiah had just barely finished saying all the Lord had commanded him to say to all the people. All at once some12 of the priests, the prophets, and the people grabbed him and shouted, “You deserve to die!13

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  1. 12 The translation again represents an attempt to break up a long complex Hebrew sentence into equivalent English ones that conform more to contemporary English style: Heb “And as soon as Jeremiah finished saying all that … the priests … grabbed him and said …” The word “some” has been supplied in the translation, because obviously it was not all the priests, the prophets, and all the people, but only some of them. There is, of course, rhetorical intent here to show that all were implicated, although all may not have actually participated. (This is a common figure called synecdoche where all is put for a part—all for all kinds or representatives of all kinds. See E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, , and compare usage in Acts 10:12; Matt 3:5.)
  2. 13 Or “You must certainly die!” The construction here is again emphatic with the infinitive preceding the finite verb (cf. 2: §123.h, and compare usage in Exod 21:28).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, “You shall die!

NIVNew International Version (2011)

But as soon as Jeremiah finished telling all the people everything the Lord had commanded him to say, the priests, the prophets and all the people seized him and said, “You must die!

CSBChristian Standard Bible

When he finished the address the Lord had commanded him to deliver to all the people, immediately the priests, the prophets, and all the people took hold of him, yelling, “You must surely die!

NLTNew Living Translation

But when Jeremiah had finished his message, saying everything the Lord had told him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people at the Temple mobbed him. “Kill him!” they shouted.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And then as Jeremiah finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, “You will die!

KJV 1900King James Version

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.