Quotes about Authority
Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.
— Jeremiah 28:10
For they are falsely prophesying to you in My name; I have not sent them, declares the LORD.”
— Jeremiah 29:9
So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who poses as a prophet among you?
— Jeremiah 29:27
Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
— Jeremiah 30:9
Their leader will be one of their own, and their ruler will arise from their midst. And I will bring him near, and he will approach Me, for who would dare on his own to approach Me?” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 30:21
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
— Jeremiah 34:12
“Please sit down,” they said, “and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.
— Jeremiah 36:15
And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.
— Jeremiah 36:23
Yet in hearing all these words, the king and his servants did not become frightened or tear their garments.
— Jeremiah 36:24
Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.
— Jeremiah 36:25
But he and his officers and the people of the land refused to obey the words that the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.
— Jeremiah 37:2
But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.”
— Jeremiah 37:20