21 The Lord therefore speaketh thus of the men of [a]Anathoth, (that seek thy life, and say, [b]Prophesy not in the name of the Lord, that thou die not by our hands.)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 11:21 To wit, both the Priests and the rest of the people: for this town was the Priests, and they dwelt in it, read Jer. 1:1.
  2. Jeremiah 11:21 Not that they could not abide to hear God named: (for herein they would show themselves most holy) but because they could not abide to be sharply reproved, and therefore desired to be flattered, Isa. 30:10, and to be maintained in their pleasures, Mic. 2:11, and not to hear vice condemned, Amos 7:12.

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