Quotes about Authority
By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.
- Jeremiah 27:5
So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.
- Jeremiah 27:6
But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’
- Jeremiah 27:9
And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke the same message: “Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and live!
- Jeremiah 27:12
Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.
- Jeremiah 28:10
For they are falsely prophesying to you in My name; I have not sent them, declares the LORD.”
- Jeremiah 29:9
So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who poses as a prophet among you?
- Jeremiah 29:27
Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
- Jeremiah 30:9
Their leader will be one of their own, and their ruler will arise from their midst. And I will bring him near, and he will approach Me, for who would dare on his own to approach Me?” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 30:21
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
- Jeremiah 34:12
“Please sit down,” they said, “and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.
- Jeremiah 36:15
And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.
- Jeremiah 36:23