The Yoke of Nebuchadnezzar
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In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, a king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
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"Thus says the LORD to me: 'Make for yourselves bonds and yokes, b and put them on your neck,
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'and send them to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the Ammonites, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
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'And command them to say to their masters, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel - thus you shall say to your masters:
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c 'I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and d have given it to whom it seemed proper to Me.
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e 'And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, f My servant; and g the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him.
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h 'So all nations shall serve him and his son and his son's son, i until the time of his land comes; j and then many nations and great kings shall make him serve them.
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'And it shall be, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish,' says the LORD, 'with the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
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'Therefore do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, "You shall not serve the king of Babylon."
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'For they prophesy a k lie to you, to remove you far from your land; and I will drive you out, and you will perish.
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'But the nations that bring their necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let them remain in their own land,' says the LORD, 'and they shall till it and dwell in it.' " ' "
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I also spoke to l Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live!
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m "Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD has spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
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"Therefore n do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, 'You shall not serve the king of Babylon,' for they prophesy o a lie to you;
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"for I have p not sent them," says the LORD, "yet they prophesy a lie in My name, that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you."
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Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, "Thus says the LORD: 'Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, "Behold, q the vessels of the LORD's house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon"; for they prophesy a lie to you.
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'Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city be laid waste?
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'But if they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, do not go to Babylon.'
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"For thus says the LORD of hosts r concerning the pillars, concerning the Sea, concerning the carts, and concerning the remainder of the vessels that remain in this city,
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"which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take, when he carried away s captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem -
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"yes, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the t vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem:
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'They shall be u carried to Babylon, and there they shall be until the day that I v visit them,' says the LORD'Then w I will bring them up and restore them to this place.' "
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Cross References
Jeremiah 27:3
And send them to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the Ammonites, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
Jeremiah 27:12
I also spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live!
Jeremiah 27:20
Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem -
Jeremiah 28:1
And it happened in the same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying.
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Jeremiah 28:10
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke off the prophet Jeremiah's neck and broke it.
Jeremiah 28:12
Now the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying.
Ezekiel 4:1
You also, son of man, take a clay tablet and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 12:3
Therefore, son of man, prepare your belongings for captivity, and go into captivity by day in their sight. You shall go from your place into captivity to another place in their sight. It may be that they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 24:3
And utter a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Put on a pot, set it on, And also pour water into it.
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Cross References
Psalms 115:15
May you be blessed by the LORD, Who made heaven and earth.
Psalms 146:6
Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that is in them; Who keeps truth forever.
Isaiah 45:12
I have made the earth, And created man on it. I - My hands - stretched out the heavens, And all their host I have commanded.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:29
'Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance,...
Psalms 115:16
The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's; B...
Jeremiah 32:17
Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens...
Daniel 4:17
'This decision is by the decree of the watchers...
Daniel 4:25
They shall drive you from men, your dwelling sh...
Daniel 4:32
And they shall drive you from men, and your dwe...
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Cross References
Jeremiah 28:14
'For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him. I have given him the beasts of the field also." '"
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Jeremiah 25:9
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' says the LORD, 'and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah 43:10
And say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will send and bring Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden. And he will spread his royal pavilion over them.
Ezekiel 29:18
Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre; every head was made bald, and every shoulder rubbed raw; yet neither he nor his army received wages from Tyre, for the labor which they expended on it.
Ezekiel 29:20
I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor, because they worked for Me,' says the Lord GOD.
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Jeremiah 28:14
'For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him. I have given him the beasts of the field also." '"
Daniel 2:38
And wherever the children of men dwell, or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all - you are this head of gold.
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2 Chronicles 36:20
And those who escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, where they became servants to him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia.
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Jeremiah 25:12
Then it will come to pass, when 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; 'and I will make it a perpetual desolation.
Jeremiah 50:27
Slay all her bulls, Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their punishment.
Daniel 5:26
This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it.
Zechariah 2:8
For thus says the LORD of hosts: "He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.
Zechariah 2:9
For surely I will shake My hand against them, and they shall become spoil for their servants. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me.
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Jeremiah 25:14
'(For many nations and great kings shall be served by them also; and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands.)'"
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Jeremiah 23:16
Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you worthless; They speak a vision of their own heart, Not from the mouth of the LORD.
Jeremiah 23:32
Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams," says the LORD, "and tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 28:15
Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, "Hear now, Hananiah, the LORD has not sent you, but you make this people trust in a lie.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 28:1
And it happened in the same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying.
Jeremiah 38:17
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "Thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: 'If you surely surrender to the king of Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live; this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live.
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Proverbs 8:36
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; All those who hate me love death.
Jeremiah 27:8
And it shall be, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish,' says the LORD, 'with the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
Jeremiah 38:23
'So they shall surrender all your wives and children to the Chaldeans. You shall not escape from their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. And you shall cause this city to be burned with fire.'"
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel?
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Jeremiah 23:16
Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you worthless; They speak a vision of their own heart, Not from the mouth of the LORD.
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Jeremiah 14:14
And the LORD said to me, "The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart.
Jeremiah 23:21
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
Jeremiah 29:8
For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
Jeremiah 29:9
For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says the LORD.
Ezekiel 13:22
Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and you have strengthened the hands of the wicked, so that he does not turn from his wicked way to save his life.
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Jeremiah 23:21
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
Jeremiah 29:9
For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says the LORD.
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2 Kings 24:13
And he carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house, and he cut in pieces all the articles of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.
2 Chronicles 36:7
Nebuchadnezzar also carried off some of the articles from the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:10
At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar summoned him and took him to Babylon, with the costly articles from the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah, Jehoiakim's brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 28:3
Within two full years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the LORD's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.
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.
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1 Kings 7:15
And he cast two pillars of bronze, each one eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of each.
2 Kings 25:13 - 17
The bronze pillars that were in the house of the LORD, and the carts and the bronze Sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried their bronze to Babylon.
Jeremiah 52:17
The bronze pillars that were in the house of the LORD, and the carts and the bronze Sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all their bronze to Babylon.
Jeremiah 52:20
The two pillars, one Sea, the twelve bronze bulls which were under it, and the carts, which King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD - the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure.
Jeremiah 52:21
Now concerning the pillars: the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, a measuring line of twelve cubits could measure its circumference, and its thickness was four fingers; it was hollow.
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2 Kings 24:14
Also he carried into captivity all Jerusalem: all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths. None remained except the poorest people of the land.
2 Kings 24:15
And he carried Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. The king's mother, the king's wives, his officers, and the mighty of the land he carried into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:10
At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar summoned him and took him to Babylon, with the costly articles from the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah, Jehoiakim's brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:18
And all the articles from the house of God, great and small, the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his leaders, all these he took to Babylon.
Jeremiah 24:1
The LORD showed me, and there were two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
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Jeremiah 20:5
Moreover I will deliver all the wealth of this city, all its produce, and all its precious things; all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, who will plunder them, seize them, and carry them to Babylon.
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2 Kings 25:13
The bronze pillars that were in the house of the LORD, and the carts and the bronze Sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried their bronze to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:18
And all the articles from the house of God, great and small, the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his leaders, all these he took to Babylon.
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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.
Jeremiah 32:5
"then he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall be until I visit him," says the LORD; "though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed" '?"
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Ezra 1:7
King Cyrus also brought out the articles of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and put in the temple of his gods.
Ezra 7:19
Also the articles that are given to you for the service of the house of your God, deliver in full before the God of Jerusalem.
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