Yeremia 2:34

2:34 Even your clothes are stained with

the lifeblood of the poor who had not done anything wrong;

you did not catch them breaking into your homes. ¹ 

Yet, in spite of all these things you have done, ² 

Yeremia 4:27

4:27 All this will happen because the Lord said, ³ 

“The whole land will be desolate;

however, I will not completely destroy it.

Yeremia 11:23

11:23 Not one of them will survive. ⁴  I will bring disaster on those men from Anathoth who threatened you. ⁵  A day of reckoning is coming for them.” ⁶ 

Yeremia 40:13

Ishmael Murders Gedaliah and Carries the Judeans at Mizpah off as Captives

40:13 Johanan and all the officers of the troops that had been hiding in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah.

[2:34]  ¹ tn The words “for example” are implicit and are supplied in the translation for clarification. This is only one example of why their death was not legitimate.

[2:34]  sn Killing a thief caught in the act of breaking and entering into a person’s home was pardonable under the law of Moses, cf. Exod 22:2.

[2:34]  ² tn KJV and ASV read this line with 2:34. The ASV makes little sense and the KJV again erroneously reads the archaic second person feminine singular perfect as first person common singular. All the modern English versions and commentaries take this line with 2:35.

[4:27]  ³ tn Heb “For this is what the Lord said,”

[11:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “There will be no survivors for/among them.”

[11:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “the men of Anathoth.” For the rationale for adding the qualification see the notes on v. 21.

[11:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “I will bring disaster on…, the year of their punishment.”