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Jeremiah 17:26 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 26. 26And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.
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Role in This Section
The prophetic word through Jeremiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the…” at Jeremiah 17:26 as part of “The Gate Sermon Tests Sabbath Practice.”
Read It With
- Jeremiah 17:19–27
Read Jeremiah 17:26 with 17:19–27. By itself, “And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the…” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, date, imperial horizon, poetic movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Jeremiah addresses kings and residents at Jerusalem's gates, tying Sabbath burden-bearing to the city's future and warning of unquenched fire.
Why It Needs Context
Keep the line with Jeremiah 17:19–27. The prophetic word through Jeremiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the…” at Jeremiah 17:26 as part of “The Gate Sermon Tests Sabbath Practice.” The literary form and this limit govern it: The sermon does not justify policing Jewish practice, coercive labor rules, or blaming workers who lack economic power to rest.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Jeremiah 17:19–27 — The Gate Sermon Tests Sabbath PracticeSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Jeremiah 17:19–27, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Jeremiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2; fixed commit
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a critical apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Jer.xml, OSIS 17:19–27
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