Seventy Years of Captivity

Jeremiah 25

1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, a in the fourth year of b Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), 2 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: 3 c "From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, this is the twenty-third year in which the word of the LORD has come to me; and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, d but you have not listened. 4 "And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets, e rising early and sending them, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear. 5 "They said, f 'Repent now everyone of his evil way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever. 6 'Do not go after other gods to serve them and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will not harm you.' 7 "Yet you have not listened to Me," says the LORD, "that you might g provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

8 "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Because you have not heard My words, 9 'behold, I will send and take h all the families of the north,' says the LORD, 'and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, i My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and j make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations. 10 'Moreover I will 1 take from them the k voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, l the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 11 'And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy m years. 12 'Then it will come to pass, n when 2 seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,' says the LORD; o 'and I will make it a perpetual desolation. 13 'So I will bring on that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied concerning all the nations. 14 p '(For many nations q and great kings shall r be served by them also; s and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands.)' "

  1. Cross References
    Jeremiah 36:1
    Now it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying:
  2. Cross References
    2 Kings 24:1
    In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.
    2 Kings 24:2
    And the LORD sent against him raiding bands of Chaldeans, bands of Syrians, bands of Moabites, and bands of the people of Ammon; He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD which He had spoken by His servants the prophets.
    2 Chronicles 36:4 - 6
    Then the king of Egypt made Jehoahaz's brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother and carried him off to Egypt.
    Daniel 1:1
    In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
    Daniel 1:2
    And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the articles of the house of God, which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the articles into the treasure house of his god.
  3. Cross References
    Jeremiah 1:2
    To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
  4. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:13
    And now, because you have done all these works," says the LORD, "and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I called you, but you did not answer.
    Jeremiah 11:7
    'For I earnestly exhorted your fathers in the day I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, until this day, rising early and exhorting, saying, "Obey My voice."
    Jeremiah 11:8
    'Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone followed the dictates of his evil heart; therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but which they have not done.'"
    Jeremiah 11:10
    "They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers."
  5. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:13
    And now, because you have done all these works," says the LORD, "and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I called you, but you did not answer.
    Jeremiah 7:25
    Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.
  6. Cross References
    2 Kings 17:13
    Yet the LORD testified against Israel and again...
    Isaiah 55:6
    Seek the LORD while He may be found, Call upon ...
    Isaiah 55:7
    Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unright...
    Jeremiah 18:11
    "Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and t...
    Ezekiel 18:30
    Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, ...
    Jonah 3:8 - 10
    But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth...
  7. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:21
    They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols. But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.
    Jeremiah 7:19
    "Do they provoke Me to anger?" says the LORD. " Do they not provoke themselves, to the shame of their own faces?"
    Jeremiah 32:30
    Because the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only evil before Me from their youth. For the children of Israel have provoked Me only to anger with the work of their hands,' says the LORD.
  8. Cross References
    Jeremiah 1:15
    For behold, I am calling All the families of the kingdoms of the north," says the LORD; "They shall come and each one set his throne At the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, Against all its walls all around, And against all the cities of Judah.
  9. Cross References
    Isaiah 45:1
    Thus says the LORD to His anointed, To Cyrus, whose right hand I have held - To subdue nations before him And loose the armor of kings, To open before him the double doors, So that the gates will not be shut:
    Jeremiah 27:6
    And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant; and the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him.
  10. Cross References
    Jeremiah 18:16
    To make their land desolate and a perpetual hissing; Everyone who passes by it will be astonished And shake his head.
  11. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:7 - 11
    The new wine fails, the vine languishes, All th...
    Jeremiah 7:34
    Then I will cause to cease from the cities of J...
    Jeremiah 16:9
    For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Isr...
    Ezekiel 26:13
    I will put an end to the sound of your songs, a...
    Hosea 2:11
    I will also cause all her mirth to cease, Her f...
    Revelation 18:23
    The light of a lamp shall not shine in you anym...
  12. Cross References
    Ecclesiastes 12:4
    When the doors are shut in the streets, And the sound of grinding is low; When one rises up at the sound of a bird, And all the daughters of music are brought low.
    Isaiah 47:2
    Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, Take off the skirt, Uncover the thigh, Pass through the rivers.
  13. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 36:21
    To fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
    Jeremiah 29:10
    For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place.
    Daniel 9:2
    In the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the LORD through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
    Zechariah 7:5
    Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests: 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months during those seventy years, did you really fast for Me - for Me?
  14. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 36:21
    To fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
    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, saying.
    Ezra 1:1
    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, saying.
    Jeremiah 29:10
    For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place.
    Daniel 9:2
    In the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the LORD through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
  15. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:20
    It will never be inhabited, Nor will it be settled from generation to generation; Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there, Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.
    Jeremiah 50:3
    For out of the north a nation comes up against her, Which shall make her land desolate, And no one shall dwell therein. They shall move, they shall depart, Both man and beast.
  16. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:9
    For behold, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon An assembly of great nations from the north country, And they shall array themselves against her; From there she shall be captured. Their arrows shall be like those of an expert warrior; None shall return in vain.
    Jeremiah 51:27
    Set up a banner in the land, Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations against her, Call the kingdoms together against her: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a general against her; Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts.
    Jeremiah 51:28
    Prepare against her the nations, With the kings of the Medes, Its governors and all its rulers, All the land of his dominion.
  17. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:27
    Set up a banner in the land, Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations against her, Call the kingdoms together against her: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a general against her; Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts.
  18. Cross References
    Jeremiah 27:7
    So all nations shall serve him and his son and his son's son, until the time of his land comes; and then many nations and great kings shall make him serve them.
  19. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:29
    Call together the archers against Babylon. All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around; Let none of them escape. Repay her according to her work; According to all she has done, do to her; For she has been proud against the LORD, Against the Holy One of Israel.
    Jeremiah 51:6
    Flee from the midst of Babylon, And every one save his life! Do not be cut off in her iniquity, For this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; He shall recompense her.
    Jeremiah 51:24
    And I will repay Babylon And all the inhabitants of Chaldea For all the evil they have done In Zion in your sight," says the LORD.
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