Jeremiah 27

The Yoke of Nebuchadnezzar

1 In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah 1 the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord. 2 Thus the Lord said to me: c "Make yourself straps and d yoke-bars, and put them on your neck. 3 Send word 2 to the king of e Edom, the king of e Moab, the king of the sons of e Ammon, the king of e Tyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah. 4 Give them this charge for their masters: 'Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: This is what you shall say to your masters: 5 "It is I who f by my great power and my outstretched arm g have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, h and I give it to whomever it seems right to me. 6 i Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, j my servant, k and I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him. 7 l All the nations shall serve him and m his son and n his grandson, o until the time of his own land comes. p Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.

8 "'"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, q and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation r with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the Lord, until I have consumed it by his hand. 9 So s do not listen to your t prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your u fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, 'You shall not serve the king of Babylon.' 10 v For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish. 11 w But any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to work it and dwell there, declares the Lord."'"

12 To x Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke in like manner: w "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and y serve him and his people and live. 13 z Why will you and your people die a by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, b as the Lord has spoken concerning any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? 14 c Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are saying to you, 'You shall not serve the king of Babylon,' v for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you. 15 I have not sent them, declares the Lord, but v they are prophesying falsely in my name, with the result that I will drive you out and you will perish, you and the prophets who are prophesying to you."

16 Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, "Thus says the Lord: c Do not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, d 'Behold, the vessels of the Lord's house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon,' v for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you. 17 c Do not listen to them; w serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city e become a desolation? 18 If they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is with them, then f let them intercede with the Lord of hosts, g that the vessels that are left in the house of the Lord, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon. 19 h For thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the pillars, the sea, the stands, and the rest of the vessels that are left in this city, 20 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take away, i when he took into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem - 21 thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, h concerning the vessels that are left in the house of the Lord, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem: 22 j They shall be carried to Babylon k and remain there l until the day when I visit them, declares the Lord. m Then I will bring them back j and restore them to this place."

  1. Cross References
    1 Kings 22:11
    And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron and said, "Thus says the Lord, 'With these you shall push the Syrians until they are destroyed.'
    Ezekiel 7:23
    Forge a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.
  2. Cross References
    Jeremiah 28:10
    Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke-bars from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke them.
    Jeremiah 28:12 - 13
    Sometime after the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke-bars from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
    Leviticus 26:13
    I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.
  3. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:21 - 22
    Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon.
  4. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:21 - 22
    Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon.
  5. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:21 - 22
    Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon.
  6. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:21 - 22
    Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon.
  7. Cross References
    Jeremiah 21:5
    I myself will fight against you with outstretched hand and strong arm, in anger and in fury and in great wrath.
  8. Cross References
    Psalms 115:15
    May you be blessed by the Lord, who made heaven and earth!
    Isaiah 45:12
    I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.
  9. Cross References
    Psalms 115:16
    The heavens are the Lord 's heavens, but the earth he has given to the children of man.
    Daniel 4:17
    The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men.
    Daniel 4:25
    That you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.
    Daniel 4:32
    And you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.
  10. Cross References
    Ezekiel 30:21
    Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and behold, it has not been bound up, to heal it by binding it with a bandage, so that it may become strong to wield the sword.
    Ezekiel 30:25
    I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall. Then they shall know that I am the Lord, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt.
  11. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:9
    Behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
  12. Cross References
    Jeremiah 28:14
    For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.'
    Daniel 2:38
    And into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the children of man, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens, making you rule over them all - you are the head of gold.
  13. Cross References
    Daniel 2:37 - 38
    You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the might, and the glory.
  14. Cross References
    Jeremiah 52:31
    And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, graciously freed Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.
  15. Cross References
    Daniel 5:1
    King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.
    Daniel 5:30
    That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.
  16. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:12
    Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste.
  17. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:14
    For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.
  18. Cross References
    Jeremiah 27:11 - 12
    But any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to work it and dwell there, declares the Lord."'
    Jeremiah 30:8
    And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and I will burst your bonds, and foreigners shall no more make a servant of him.
  19. Cross References
    Jeremiah 14:12
    Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.
  20. Cross References
    Jeremiah 14:14
    And the Lord said to me: "The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.
  21. Cross References
    Jeremiah 29:8
    For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream.
  22. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 18:10
    There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer
    Isaiah 2:6
    For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
  23. Cross References
    Jeremiah 5:31
    The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?
  24. Cross References
    Jeremiah 27:2
    Thus the Lord said to me: "Make yourself straps and yoke-bars, and put them on your neck.
    Jeremiah 27:8
    '"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the Lord, until I have consumed it by his hand.
  25. Cross References
    Jeremiah 28:1
    In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord, in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying.
    Jeremiah 27:1
    In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord.
  26. Cross References
    Jeremiah 27:11
    But any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to work it and dwell there, declares the Lord."
  27. Cross References
    Jeremiah 27:17
    Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a desolation?
    Jeremiah 38:17
    Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If you will surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then your life shall be spared, and this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live.
  28. Cross References
    Ezekiel 18:31
    Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?
  29. Cross References
    Jeremiah 14:12
    Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.
  30. Cross References
    Jeremiah 27:8
    "But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the Lord, until I have consumed it by his hand.
  31. Cross References
    Jeremiah 14:14
    And the Lord said to me: "The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.
  32. Cross References
    Jeremiah 27:10
    For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish.
  33. Cross References
    Jeremiah 27:10
    For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish.
  34. Cross References
    Jeremiah 27:14
    Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are saying to you, 'You shall not serve the king of Babylon,' for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you.
  35. Cross References
    Jeremiah 28:3
    Within two years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the Lord 's house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.
    2 Kings 24:13
    And carried off all the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the Lord, which Solomon king of Israel had made, as the Lord had foretold.
    2 Chronicles 36:7
    Nebuchadnezzar also carried part of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon and put them in his palace in Babylon.
    2 Chronicles 36:10
    In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
    2 Chronicles 36:18
    And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.
  36. Cross References
    Jeremiah 27:10
    For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish.
  37. Cross References
    Jeremiah 27:14
    Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are saying to you, 'You shall not serve the king of Babylon,' for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you.
  38. Cross References
    Jeremiah 27:11
    But any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to work it and dwell there, declares the Lord.
  39. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:34
    And I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall become a waste.
  40. Cross References
    Isaiah 59:16
    He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intercede; then his own arm brought him salvation, and his righteousness upheld him.
  41. Cross References
    Daniel 1:2
    And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god.
  42. Cross References
    2 Kings 25:13
    And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon.
  43. Cross References
    2 Kings 24:14 - 15
    He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, 10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, except the poorest people of the land.
    Matthew 1:11 - 12
    And Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.
    Jeremiah 24:1
    After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, together with the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metal workers, and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me this vision: behold, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord.
  44. Cross References
    Jeremiah 27:19
    For thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the pillars, the sea, the stands, and the rest of the vessels that are left in this city.
  45. Cross References
    Jeremiah 52:17
    And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all the bronze to Babylon.
    Jeremiah 52:20 - 21
    As for the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea, and the stands, which Solomon the king had made for the house of the Lord, the bronze of all these things was beyond weight.
    2 Kings 25:13
    And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon.
    2 Chronicles 36:18
    And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.
  46. Cross References
    Jeremiah 52:17
    And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all the bronze to Babylon.
    Jeremiah 52:20 - 21
    As for the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea, and the stands, which Solomon the king had made for the house of the Lord, the bronze of all these things was beyond weight.
    2 Kings 25:13
    And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon.
    2 Chronicles 36:18
    And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.
  47. Cross References
    Jeremiah 32:5
    And he shall take Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall remain until I visit him, declares the Lord. Though you fight against the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed'?
  48. Cross References
    Jeremiah 29:10
    For thus says the Lord : When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place.
    2 Chronicles 36:22
    Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:
    Ezra 1:1
    In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:
  49. Cross References
    Ezra 1:7 - 8
    Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the house of the Lord that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods.
    Ezra 5:14
    And the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple that was in Jerusalem and brought into the temple of Babylon, these Cyrus the king took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor.
    Ezra 7:19
    The vessels that have been given you for the service of the house of your God, you shall deliver before the God of Jerusalem.
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