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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 27
The Lord sends word to many nations that they are to serve
Babylon—The vessels of the Lord's house shall go into Babylon.
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The Lord sends his word of warning to all nations round about Jerusalem
that they are to serve Babylon—The Lord further commands Jeremiah to
go forth to the king of Judah, Zedekiah, wearing a yoke upon his neck stating
the same message—The message further stated that the vessels of the
Lord's house would NOT return as the false prophets so stated.
[About 601-600 B.C.]
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1 IN the beginning of the
reign of aJehoiakim
[Zedekiah]a
the son of Josiah king of Judah came
this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and
ayokes, and put them upon thy neck,
3 And send them to the aking of
bEdom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the
Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of
cZidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to
Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;
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1a In the beginning of the reign of
Jehoiakim [Zedekiah] There has been an
error made in the transcription and compilation of the Bible in respect to
the fact that it can be well determined that the name here should be that
of Zedekiah as in verse three it so comfirms that this was the name of the
king to whom Jeremiah was sent to wearing the yoke. It is further confirmed in
verse 12 where it is Zedekiah whom Jeremiah speaks to and throughout chapter
28 which is the continuation of chapter 27 and the action began to be spoken
of here in chapter 27.
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4 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;
5 I have made the aearth, the man
and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my
outstretched arm, and have bgiven it unto whom it seemed
meet unto me.
6 And now have I agiven all these
lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and
the bbeasts of the field have I given him also to serve
him.
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7 And all anations shall serve him,
and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and
then many nations and great kings shall bserve themselves
of him.
8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
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9 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to
your adiviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your
enchanters, nor to your bsorcerers, which speak unto you,
saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:
10 For they prophesy a alie unto
you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and
ye should perish.
11 But the nations that bring their neck under the
ayoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I
let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it,
and dwell therein.
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12 ¶ I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah
according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the
king of aBabylon, and serve him and his people, and
live.
13 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
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14 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
15 For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they
aprophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and
that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
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16 Also I spake to the priests and to all this
people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your
prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the
avessels of the LORD's house shall now shortly be brought
again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
17 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of
aBabylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid
bwaste?
18 But if they be prophets, and if the word of
the LORD be with them, let them now make aintercession to
the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD,
and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to
Babylon.
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19 ¶ For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning
the apillars, and concerning the bsea,
and concerning the cbases, and concerning the residue of
the vessels that remain in this city,
20 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not,
when he carried away captive aJeconiah the son of Jehoiakim
king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and
Jerusalem;
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21 Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;
22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall
they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I
abring them up, and restore them to this place.
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