CHAPTER 27 The Optimism of the False Prophets Contradicted _ 1. The call of Nebuchadnezzar to be the servant of God (Jeremiah 27:1) _ 2. The call to submit and to serve the king of Babylon (Jeremia...
THE WARNING TO ZEDEKIAH. Jeremiah also warns Zedekiah to the same effect (Jeremiah 27:12), and tells priests and people not to believe the prophets who promise an early return of the Temple vessels. L...
I SPAKE: i.e. thirteen years after this prophecy came to him. See note on Jeremiah 27:1. TO ZEDEKIAH. It is not stated whether he ever addressed the two other kings. Jehoahaz and Zedekiah were the son...
Speedy deliverance from Babylon is not to be hoped for These three Chapter s belong to the time of Zedekiah. The power of Babylon had already been demonstrated as to Judah. Some of the people had bee...
The warning to Zedekiah. The LXX, apparently through an accident in copying, omit much of these _vv_. They correspond in the main to the previous passage, the warning against the false prophets in Jer...
C. A Warning to Zedekiah Jeremiah 27:12-15 TRANSLATION (12) And unto Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke in a similar manner, saying, (13) Why will you die, you and your people, by sword, famine and pesti...
I spake also 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. IKL I SPAKE ALSO - trans...
1-29. Judah is warned to submit to Babylon....
I SPAKE ALSO TO ZEDEKIAH... — There was, as we see in Jeremiah 28:13, a party of resistance in Judah also, and they, too, were trusting in delusive prophecies of the overthrow of the Chaldæan monarchy...
וְ אֶל ־צִדְקִיָּ֤ה מֶֽלֶךְ ־יְהוּדָה֙ דִּבַּ֔רְתִּי...
CHAPTER IX HANANIAH Jeremiah 27:1, Jeremiah 28:1 "Hear now, Hananiah; Jehovah hath not sent thee, but thou makest this people to trust in a lie."- Jeremiah 28:15 THE most conspicuous point at issu
Having thus repeated the vision and prophecies of the earlier times, Jeremiah again addressed himself directly to Zedekiah. There can be no doubt that the marginal reading of 27:l must be adopted, and...
This must have been a painful service to Jeremiah, to go from one to another, and with messages of evil. All God's servants have done the same. Ezekiel 2:6; Ezekiel 2:6....
This verse proves with sufficient clearness that what we have hitherto explained was spoken especially to the chosen people; for Jeremiah tells us here, that he spoke to the King Zedekiah, and in the...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 27 AND 28. Chapter s 27 and 28 go together. Their chief subject is the submission to the head of the Gentiles, which God requires of the Jews. But before dwel...
I SPAKE ALSO TO ZEDEKIAH KING OF JUDAH,.... At the same time that he delivered the above message from the Lord to the ambassadors of several nations, who were then residents in Zedekiah's court, or ho...
I spake also 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. Ver. 12. _I spake also to...
_I spake also to Zedekiah_, &c. What the prophet here says to Zedekiah has a particular weight in it, because he was made king of Judea by Nebuchadnezzar, and had taken an oath to be faithful to him,...
I spake to Zedekiah, king of Judah, applying the statements of the first part of the chapter to him and Judah in particular, ACCORDING TO ALL THESE WORDS, SAYING, BRING YOUR NECKS UNDER THE YOKE OF TH...
THE SPECIAL MESSAGE TO ZEDEKIAH...
12-18 Jeremiah persuades the king of Judah to surrender to the king of Babylon. Is it their wisdom to submit to the heavy iron yoke of a cruel tyrant, that they may secure their lives; and is it not...
Some think this was at another time, but it is most probable it was the same time....
Jeremiah 27:12 spoke H1696 (H8765) Zedekiah H6667 king H4428 Judah H3063 words H1697 saying H559 (H8800) Bring...
WEARING THE YOKE OF SUBJECTION AND DEPENDENCE (JEREMIAH 27:1). At YHWH's command Jeremiah had to wear a yoke demonstrating bondage. Per the MT text this commenced at the beginning of Jehoiakim's reign...
ZEDEKIAH HIMSELF IS ALSO WARNED OF THE NECESSITY FOR CONTINUED SUBMISSION TO THE KING OF BABYLON (JEREMIAH 27:12). Zedekiah is also warned by Jeremiah of the consequences of not continuing to submit t...
CONTENTS: Sign of the yokes, to surrounding Gentile kings. Warning of great calamity. CHARACTERS: God, Jehoiakim, Nebuchadnezzar, Zedekiah, Jeconiah. CONCLUSION: Those who refuse to serve the God wh...
Jeremiah 27:1. _In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim._ In the twelfth verse it is added, “I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah.” These occurrences induce some critics to believe that Jehoiakim...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—“Beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim.” There is authority for reading “_Zedekiah_” instead of “Jehoiakim.” Henderson substitutes “Zedekiah,...
EXPOSITION This and the two following chapters are closely connected. They all relate to the early part of the reign of Zedekiah, and con-rain warnings arising out of the deepening gloom of the politi...
Now Jeremiah goes on to declare that, In the beginning (Jeremiah 27:1) He's speaking this to the king Zedekiah. In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this w...
2 Chronicles 36:11; Ezekiel 17:11; Jeremiah 27:2; Jeremiah 27:3;...