1 In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, son of Josiah, the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah in this way,
2 "Make for yourself ropes and a yoke and put them on your neck.
3 Then send word to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre and Sidon through their ambassadors, who have come to Jerusalem, to see Zedekiah king of Judah.
4 Give them these instructions for their masters: Yahweh God of hosts tells you what you ought to say to your masters:
5 By means of my great power and mighty deeds I made the earth, as well as the people and animals that inhabit it, and I give them to whom ever I wish.
6 Now I have given all these lands into the hands of my steward Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and I will even make the beasts of the field subject to him.
7 All nations will serve him, his son and his grandson until the time for his land comes and then he will be overpowered by powerful nations and great kings.
8 As for the nation or kingdom that refuses to serve Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, I will punish it with the sword, famine and plague - word of Yahweh - until I completely wipe it out.
9 Hence you must no longer pay attention to your prophets, diviners, interpreters of dreams, astrologists or sorcerers who say that you must not submit yourselves to the king of Babylon.
10 For they are prophets of lies which will cause you to be finally driven from your land. I myself will drive you out and you will perish.
11 But the nation that submits to the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him, that nation I will leave in its own land - word of Yahweh - to till it and live there."
12 Then I gave the same message to King Zedekiah of Judah, "Place your neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon. Serve him and his people and you will live.
13 Why should you and your people die by the sword, famine and plague as Yahweh has threatened any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
14 Do not listen to the prophets when they say, 'You will not have to serve the king of Babylon.' For they are deceiving you with their prophesies.
15 I did not send them, says Yahweh, and they falsely use my name in their prophesying. Let it not be that I drive you out of your land and you perish, you and the prophets who have spoken to you."
16 Then I spoke to the priests and the people, "Yahweh tells you not to listen to your prophets who say: 'Very soon now the articles from Yahweh's House will be brought back from Babylon.' They prophesy lies.
17 Do not listen to them; instead serve the king of Babylon and survive. Why should this city become a ruins?
18 If they were prophets and if they had Yahweh's word in their hearts, they would now be praying to Yahweh God of hosts not to allow the objects still remaining in the House of Yahweh and in the royal palace and in Jerusalem to be carried off to Babylon.
19 For, Yahweh says something about the pillars, the Sea, the movable stands and the other objects still in this city
20 which Nebuchadnezzar did not carry off when he deported Jekoniah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon together with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.
21 Yes, this is what Yahweh the God of hosts says about the objects remaining in the House of Yahweh and in the royal palace in Jerusalem:
22 "They will be taken to Babylon and there they will remain until the day I deal with them. Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place."
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Jeremiah 27 talks about how God instructed Jeremiah to make a wooden yoke and send it to all the neighboring kings of Judah, symbolizing the subjection of Judah to Babylon. He also warned these kings not to believe in the false prophets who encouraged them to fight Babylon, but instead accept God's punishment and submit to Nebuchadnezzar. Below are five verses related to the topics covered in this chapter:
Ezekiel 17:14 - "That the kingdom may be humble without rising, and to keep his covenant, and fulfill it, that it might subsist." This verse talks about the humility necessary to submit to an alliance, which is exactly what Jeremiah is asking these neighboring kings of Judah to do towards Babylon.
Isaiah 45:1 - "Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, Cyrus, whom I took by the right hand, to slaughter the nations before his face, and unfold the loins of kings, to open the doors before him, and the doors They will not close. " This verse shows that God can use anyone, even one who is not from Judah, to do his will, as he is using Nebuchadnezzar to punish Judah.
Jeremiah 29:8-9 - "For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not deceive your prophets in the midst of you, nor your guessors, nor hear to your dreams, who dream. They falsely prophesy you in my name; I have not sent them, says the Lord. " This verse talks about the false prophets that Jeremiah is warning the neighboring kings of Judah not to hear.
Jeremiah 25:11-12 - "And all this land will be in desolation and astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. And when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, says the Lord, by his iniquity, and I will punish the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it a perpetual desolation. " This verse predicts the punishment that God will inflict to Babylon after they conclude His task of punishing Judah, showing that God is in control of the situation.
2 Chronicles 36:17: "God handed them all into the hands of the Chaldeans." This verse reports God's action to hand over the people of Judah into the hands of the Chaldeans as a consequence of the disobedience and sins of the people. This is related to the theme of Chapter 27 of Jeremiah, where the prophet warns the people to submit to the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, to prevent the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple of God.
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