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26 (A)But they became disobedient and rebelled against You,
And (B)cast Your law behind their backs
And (C)killed Your prophets who had (D)testified to them
So that they might return to You,
And (E)they [a]committed great [b]blasphemies.

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  1. Nehemiah 9:26 Lit did
  2. Nehemiah 9:26 Lit acts of contempt

20 Indeed, there was also a man who prophesied in the name of Yahweh, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from (A)Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land words similar to all those of Jeremiah. 21 And King Jehoiakim and all his mighty men and all the officials heard his words. So the (B)king sought to put him to death; but Uriah heard it, and he was afraid and (C)fled and went to Egypt. 22 Then King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt: (D)Elnathan the son of Achbor and certain men with him went into Egypt. 23 And they brought Uriah out from Egypt and led him to King Jehoiakim, who (E)struck him down with a sword and cast his dead body into the [a]burial place of the [b]common people.

24 But the hand of (F)Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that he was (G)not given into the hands of the people to put him to death.

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  1. Jeremiah 26:23 Lit graves
  2. Jeremiah 26:23 Lit sons of the people

52 (A)And which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of (B)the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers (C)you have now become;

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15 (A)who both killed the Lord Jesus and (B)the prophets, and [a]drove us out, and do not please God, and are hostile to all men,

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:15 Or persecuted us