Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 26

This is a scholarly parallel-text presentation of Jeremiah 26 (with a fragment of Jeremiah 46) displayed simultaneously in three versions: the King James Version with embedded Strong's concordance numbers, the Septuagint in ancient Greek, and the Hebrew Masoretic text (Tanakh). The format serves textual-critical comparison, allowing readers to examine lexical and translational differences across the three major biblical manuscript traditions side by side. The core narrative is Jeremiah's "Temple Sermon" crisis: at the outset of King Jehoiakim's reign, God commands Jeremiah to preach in the Temple court, warning that Jerusalem will become desolate like Shiloh unless the people repent. After he speaks, priests, prophets, and the crowd demand his execution for prophesying against the city. Jeremiah defends himself before the princes, calmly accepting their judgment while insisting his death would bring innocent bloodguilt upon them. The princes ultimately side with Jeremiah, citing the precedent of the prophet Micah, who issued similar warnings under Hezekiah without being executed. The chapter closes with a contrasting case — the prophet Urijah, who fled to Egypt but was extradited and killed by Jehoiakim — underscoring Jeremiah's courage by implicit comparison, while noting that Ahikam son of Shaphan protected him. The distinctive feature of this presentation is its apparatus-heavy, comparative format — the KJV column's Strong's numbers enable word-level cross-referencing to the Hebrew, making this primarily a resource for biblical scholars, translators, or students studying textual transmission rather than a devotional or narrative reading edition.

Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 26

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