Scripture Blog

This weblog is my personal online scripture journal. I try to read the scriptures each morning as I exercise on my cross-trainer. It has a great impact on my life and my testimony of the Savior and his restored church. The journal is really for my own benefit but I have set it up as a web log in hopes to benefit anyone else that may be interested. "For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost..." 1 Nephi 10:19

Monday, November 19, 2018

Jeremiah 26

Lehi, a contemporary of Jeremiah, after crying repentance to Judah, unsurprisingly -

"...when the Jews heard these things they were angry with him; yea, even as with the prophets of old, whom they had cast out, and stoned, and slain; and they also sought his life, that they might take it away..."  (1 Nephi 1:20)

Jeremiah, after prophesying the forthcoming destruction -

"...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."  (Jeremiah 26:8)

Fortunately at -

"...the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death."  (Jeremiah 26:24)

Sadly, we learn of a prophet, Urijah after his life was threatened fled to Egypt, but -

"...they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people."  (Jeremiah 26:23)

Thank goodness the Lord led Lehi away.