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Jeremiah 28:8 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 8. 8The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
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Role in This Section
The prophetic word through Jeremiah states or reports “The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and…” at Jeremiah 28:8 as a specific part of “Jeremiah Says Amen and States a Prophetic Test.”
Read It With
- Jeremiah 28:5–9
Read Jeremiah 28:8 with 28:5–9. By itself, “The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and…” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, date, imperial horizon, poetic movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Jeremiah desires the promised restoration yet recalls that prophets of war and disaster precede them, while a peace oracle is known through fulfillment.
Why It Needs Context
Jeremiah 28:5–9 gives Jeremiah 28:8 its literary owner and outcome. The prophetic word through Jeremiah states or reports “The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and…” at Jeremiah 28:8 as a specific part of “Jeremiah Says Amen and States a Prophetic Test.” Application waits until that movement is understood.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Jeremiah 28:5–9 — Jeremiah Says Amen and States a Prophetic TestSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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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 28:5–9, 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 28:5–9
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