Discovery BoxJeremiah 2:30 
Context2:30 “It did no good for me to punish your people.
They did not respond to such correction.
You slaughtered your prophets
like a voracious lion.” 1
Jeremiah 17:23
Context17:23 Your ancestors, 2 however, did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They stubbornly refused 3 to pay attention or to respond to any discipline.’
1 tn Heb “Your sword devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.” However, the reference to the sword in this and many similar idioms is merely idiomatic for death by violent means.
2 tn Heb “They.” The antecedent is spelled out to avoid any possible confusion.
3 tn Heb “They hardened [or made stiff] their neck so as not to.”
