then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;
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TSK · Jeremiah 38:7
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when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright.
(after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen mother, and the eunuchs, [and] the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem),
When he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are falling away to the Chaldeans.
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen."
They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in the Kingdom of God.