Discovery BoxJeremiah 7:6 
Context7:6 Stop oppressing foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. 1 Stop killing innocent people 2 in this land. Stop paying allegiance to 3 other gods. That will only bring about your ruin. 4
Jeremiah 19:4
Context19:4 I will do so because these people 5 have rejected me and have defiled 6 this place. They have offered sacrifices in it to other gods which neither they nor their ancestors 7 nor the kings of Judah knew anything about. They have filled it with the blood of innocent children. 8
Jeremiah 22:3
Context22:3 The Lord says, “Do what is just and right. Deliver those who have been robbed from those 9 who oppress them. Do not exploit or mistreat foreigners who live in your land, children who have no fathers, or widows. 10 Do not kill innocent people 11 in this land.
Jeremiah 26:15
Context26:15 But you should take careful note of this: If you put me to death, you will bring on yourselves and this city and those who live in it the guilt of murdering an innocent man. For the Lord has sent me to speak all this where you can hear it. That is the truth!” 12
1 tn Heb “Stop oppressing foreigner, orphan, and widow.”
2 tn Heb “Stop shedding innocent blood.”
3 tn Heb “going/following after.” See the translator’s note at 2:5 for an explanation of the idiom involved here.
4 tn Heb “going after other gods to your ruin.”
5 tn The text merely has “they.” But since a reference is made later to “they” and “their ancestors,” the referent must be to the people that the leaders of the people and leaders of the priests represent.
6 sn Heb “have made this city foreign.” The verb here is one that is built off of the noun and adjective which relate to foreign nations. Comparison may be made to Jer 2:21 where the adjective refers to the strange, wild vine as opposed to the choice vine the
7 tn Heb “fathers.”
8 tn Heb “the blood of innocent ones.” This must be a reference to child sacrifice as explained in the next verse. Some have seen a reference to the sins of social injustice alluded to in 2 Kgs 21:16 and 24:4 but those are connected with the city itself. Hence the word children is supplied in the translation to make the referent explicit.
9 tn Heb “from the hand [or power] of.”
10 tn Heb “aliens, orphans, or widows” treating the terms as generic or collective. However, the term “alien” carries faulty connotations and the term “orphan” is not totally appropriate because the Hebrew term does not necessarily mean that both parents have died.
sn These were classes of people who had no one to look out for their rights. The laws of Israel, however, were careful to see that their rights were guarded (cf. Deut 10:18) and that provision was made for meeting their needs (cf. Deut 24:19-21). The
11 tn Heb “Do not shed innocent blood.”
sn Do not kill innocent people. For an example of one of the last kings who did this see Jer 36:20-23. Manasseh was notorious for having done this and the book of 2 Kgs attributes the ultimate destruction of Judah to this crime and his sin of worshiping false gods (2 Kgs 21:16; 24:4).
12 tn Heb “For in truth the
