Jeremiah 27 (NET)

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Jeremiah 27:1¹The Lord spoke to Jeremiah early in the reign of Josiah’s son, King Zedekiah of Judah.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 36:11 Jer 27:12 Jer 27:19-20 Jer 27:3 Jer 28:1 Jer 26:1

Jeremiah 27:2²The Lord told me, “Make a yoke out of leather straps and wooden crossbars and put it on your neck.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 7:1 1 Kgs 11:30-31 Amos 7:4 Ezek 12:1-28 Ezek 24:3-12 Ezek 4:1-5 Isa 20:2-4 Jer 13:1-11 Jer 18:2-10 Jer 19:1-11

Jeremiah 27:3³Use it to send messages to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon. Send them through the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to King Zedekiah of Judah.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 36:13 Amos 1:9-2:3 Ezek 17:15-21 Ezek 25:1-17 Ezek 29:18 Jer 25:19-26 Jer 47:1-7

Jeremiah 27:4⁴Charge them to give their masters a message from me. Tell them, ‘The Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says to give your masters this message:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 5:1 Jer 10:10 Jer 10:16 Jer 25:27 Jer 51:19

Jeremiah 27:5⁵“I made the earth and the people and animals on it by my mighty power and great strength, and I give it to whomever I see fit.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 32:17 Jer 51:15 Ps 115:15-16 Dan 4:17 Heb 1:10-11 Ps 146:5-6 Col 1:16 Isa 42:5 Isa 44:24 Isa 45:12

Jeremiah 27:6⁶I have at this time placed all these nations of yours under the power of my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I have even made all the wild animals subject to him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 28:14 Jer 25:9 Dan 2:37-38 Ezek 29:18-20 Jer 43:10 Isa 44:28 Dan 5:18-19 Jer 21:7 Jer 24:1 Jer 51:20-23

Jeremiah 27:7⁷All nations must serve him and his son and grandson until the time comes for his own nation to fall. Then many nations and great kings will in turn subjugate Babylon.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 52:31 Dan 5:25-31 Isa 14:4-6 Jer 25:11-14 Rev 13:5-10 Zech 2:8-9 2 Chr 36:20-21 Hab 2:7 Isa 13:1 Isa 13:8-22

Jeremiah 27:8⁸But suppose a nation or a kingdom will not be subject to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Suppose it will not submit to the yoke of servitude to him. I, the Lord, affirm that I will punish that nation. I will use the king of Babylon to punish it with war, starvation, and disease until I have destroyed it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 14:21 Ezek 17:19-21 Jer 24:10 Jer 38:17-19 Jer 25:28-29 Jer 40:9 Jer 42:10-18 Jer 52:3-6

Jeremiah 27:9⁹So do not listen to your prophets or to those who claim to predict the future by divination, by dreams, by consulting the dead, or by practicing magic. They keep telling you, ‘You do not need to be subject to the king of Babylon.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 14:14 Isa 8:19 Jer 29:8 Mal 3:5 Acts 8:11 Deut 18:10-12 Deut 18:14 Exod 7:11 Isa 47:12-14 Jer 23:16

Jeremiah 27:10¹⁰Do not listen to them, because their prophecies are lies. Listening to them will only cause you to be taken far away from your native land. I will drive you out of your country and you will die in exile.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 32:31 Ezek 14:9-11 Jer 23:25 Jer 27:14 Jer 28:16 Lam 2:14

Jeremiah 27:11¹¹Things will go better for the nation that submits to the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon and is subject to him. I will leave that nation in its native land. Its people can continue to farm it and live in it. I, the Lord, affirm it!”’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 21:9 Jer 27:2 Jer 27:8 Jer 38:2 Jer 27:12 Jer 40:9-12 Jer 42:10-11

Jeremiah 27:12¹²I told King Zedekiah of Judah the same thing. I said, “Submit to the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon. Be subject to him and his people. Then you will continue to live.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 28:1 Jer 38:17 2 Chr 36:11-13 Ezek 17:11-21 Jer 27:2-3 Jer 27:8 Prov 1:33

Jeremiah 27:13¹³There is no reason why you and your people should die in war or from starvation or disease. That’s what the Lord says will happen to any nation that will not be subject to the king of Babylon.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 18:31 Jer 27:8 Jer 38:20 Prov 8:36 Ezek 14:21 Ezek 18:24 Ezek 33:11 Jer 24:9 Jer 38:2

Jeremiah 27:14¹⁴Do not listen to the prophets who are telling you that you do not need to serve the king of Babylon. For they are prophesying lies to you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 14:14 2 Cor 11:13-15 Jer 23:21 Jer 29:8-9 1 John 4:1 1 Kgs 22:22-23 2 Pet 2:1-3 Ezek 13:22-23 Ezek 13:6-15 Isa 28:10-13

Jeremiah 27:15¹⁵For I, the Lord, affirm that I did not send them. They are prophesying lies to you in my name. If you listen to them, I will drive you and the prophets who are prophesying lies out of the land and you will all die in exile.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 27:10 2 Chr 25:16 Jer 14:15-16 Jer 6:13-15 2 Chr 18:17-22 2 Thess 2:9-12 2 Tim 2:17-19 2 Tim 4:3-4 Ezek 14:3-10 Jer 20:6

Jeremiah 27:16¹⁶I also told the priests and all the people, “The Lord says, ‘Do not listen to what your prophets are saying. They are prophesying to you that the valuable articles taken from the Lord ’s temple will be brought back from Babylon very soon. But they are prophesying a lie to you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 24:13 Jer 28:3 Dan 1:2 Jer 27:10 Jer 27:14 2 Chr 36:7-10 Isa 9:15

Jeremiah 27:17¹⁷Do not listen to them. Be subject to the king of Babylon. Then you will continue to live. Why should this city be made a pile of rubble?’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 27:11-13 Jer 38:17 Jer 38:23 Jer 7:34

Jeremiah 27:18¹⁸I also told them, “If they are really prophets and the Lord is speaking to them, let them pray earnestly to the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. Let them plead with him not to let the valuable articles that are still left in the Lord ’s temple, in the royal palace of Judah, and in Jerusalem be taken away to Babylon.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 7:8 1 Kgs 18:24 1 Sam 12:19 1 Sam 12:23 Jer 18:20 1 Kgs 18:26 2 Chr 32:20 Ezek 14:14 Ezek 14:18-20 Ezek 22:30

Jeremiah 27:19¹⁹For the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has already spoken about the two bronze pillars, the large bronze basin called ‘The Sea,’ and the movable bronze stands. He has already spoken about the rest of the valuable articles that are left in this city.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 25:13 Jer 52:17-23 2 Kgs 25:17 1 Kgs 7:15-22 2 Chr 4:2-16

Jeremiah 27:20²⁰He has already spoken about these things that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon did not take away when he carried Jehoiakim’s son King Jeconiah of Judah and the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem away as captives from Jerusalem to Babylon.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 24:1 2 Chr 36:10 2 Chr 36:18 2 Kgs 24:14-16 Jer 22:28

Jeremiah 27:21²¹Indeed, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, has already spoken about the valuable articles that are left in the Lord ’s temple, in the royal palace of Judah, and in Jerusalem.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Jeremiah 27:22²²He has said, ‘They will be carried off to Babylon. They will remain there until it is time for me to show consideration for them again. Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.’ I, the Lord, affirm this!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 29:10 Ezra 7:19 Jer 32:5 Ezra 1:11 Jer 25:11-12 Ezra 5:13-15 Prov 21:30 2 Chr 36:17-18 2 Chr 36:21-Ezra 1:5 2 Kgs 24:13-17