i ch. 28, 14. Dan. 2, 38. & 4, 22. CHAPTER XXVII. The subduing of the neighbouring kings unto Nebuchadnezzar. a Before Hañuniah's false prophecy. they prophesy a lie in my name, that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets CHRIST that prophesy unto you. y 2 Thes. 2, 16 Also I spake to the priests, and to all this people, 12 saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house shall 22 Chr. 56, now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they 7, 10. prophesy a lie unto you. 17 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be * laid waste ? a ch. 25, 3 D Gen. 20, 7. IN the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the 2 Thus saith the LORD to me, Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck, 3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah ; 4 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say unto your masters; 5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power, and by my out-stretched arm, and have given it unto whom it & seemed meet unto me. 6 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the 'beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him. h Егек. 22,30. to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon. 19 For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the 2 Kings bases, and concerning the residue sidue of the vessels that 25, 16. remain in this city, d 2 Kings 24,14. Heb. 20 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Baby- Ist. 34, 12 lon, and all the † nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; white ones, Eccl. 9, 8. verse 21 Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Lev. 26, Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the Isaiah 5,25. house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem; f2 Chr. 36, 18. Dan. 5,2,4. 22. 22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the 2 Chr. 36, (LORD: then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place. CHAPTER XXVIII. 7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his 'son's son, until the very time of his land come; } Hananiah prophesieth the return of the vessels and of Jeconiah. * ch. 52,31. and then many nations and great kings shall serve ND it came to pass the same year, in the be1 Dan. 5, 1. themselves of him. m Ps. 37,13. 50, 27. 8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and A a Ezra 1, 11. & 5, 16. cir. 596. a 2 Kings ginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, 24, 18. in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hana Dan. 5. 26. kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchad-niah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of b ch. 29,2%. 9 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: 10 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish. 11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein. 12 1 I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah chap. 55, 1. 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. Gibeon, spake untome in the house of the LORD, in them. s, a, presence of the priests, and of all the people, saying, 2. Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of c 1 King Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of 13, 18. Babylon. 3 Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD's house that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon: Isa. 8, 20. m ch. 27, 1. 10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from "off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it. 11 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the 1 Kings people, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon 22, 11, 14. Ps. 10, 13. o ch. 27, 7. Zedekiah and Ahab's fearfulend. Before cir. 599. 10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy ChorST years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. p ch. 25,11. Ezek. 1, 11 For I know the thoughts that I think towards 2 you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. from the neck of all nations, within the space of two verses 3, 4. full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way. 12 1 Then the word of the LORD came unto Jer- { shall search for me with all your heart. 22. Ezek. 13, Isn. 36, emiah the prophet, (after that Hananiah the prophet 20 had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah,) saying, Hab. 2, 1. Mat. 7, 6. 1 Cor. 11, 16 48. 13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but Deut. 24, thou shalt make for them yokes of 'iron. 14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I ch. 27,6. have given him the beasts of the field also. Dan. 2, 48. 15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah, The LORD ch. 27, hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to Lam. 14. trust in a lie. 16 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will "cast thee from off the face of the earth; this year thou shalt die, because thou hast * taught rebellion Deut. 13, against the LORD. 17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year, in the seventh month. r Luke 1, 68. 11 l'et. 1, 9. 12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go s Isa. 55, 8. and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye u Ps. 10, 17 Ezek 14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD; and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORI ; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive. 15 Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon; 16 Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity; 17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. miah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the tives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to 2 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, • Isa. 39, 7. ted from Jerusalem,) 4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon, 5 Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them; 6h Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; Deut. 7,8. and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished. 7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray 11 Tim. 2, unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall 8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be Rev. 16, in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. 9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name;put him in prison, and in the stocks: ch. 28, 16. I have not sent them, saith the LORD. 26 The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the Lord, for every man that is mad, King and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest Arts 26, 24. The Jews' return Before Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself as the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins CHRIST prophet to you? 2. 28 For therefore 'he sent unto us in Babylon,say5. Num. 16, ing, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell chap. 43,2: in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet. t Ps. 109, 4. verse 5. u chap. 21, 1. & 37, 3. 30 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, were increased. Before CHRIST cir. 606. a Lam. 3, 15 Why criest thou for thine affliction ? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: 39. because thy sins were increased I have done these Micah 7.9. things unto thee. b ch. 5, 6. 16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be Isa. 10, 5, 12. devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of ch. 10, 25. them shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee Rev. 13, 10. shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I Rev. 19, 17 31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus mite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto x ch. 28, 15. you, and * I sent him not, and he caused you to trust verses 9, 23. y Neh. 6,12. ina lie; 32 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will 2 ch.7, 17. punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed : he shall not have a man to dwell 2 among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for b ch. 26, 16. my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the Lord. a ch. 17, 7. Job 7, 7. cir. 606. CHAPTER XXX. God sheweth Jeremiah the return of the Jews. 18. 17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will e Isa. 62, 4 heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because Lam. 2 they called thee an Outcast, saying, 'This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after. 15. g Lama. 1, 2. Phil. 2, 21. verse 3. 18 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring h Isa. 11, again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy 12. on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be builded Obadiah, upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. verse 20. i Ps. 102, 13. k Rev. 19, 19 And out of them shall proceed * thanksgiving, and the voice of them that make merry and I will 1,2 THE WO HE word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, { multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also 1 Isa. 60, 3 2 Thus speaketh the Lord GOD of Israel, saying, Jub 19, a Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto Rom. 15, 4. thee in a book. 34. 12 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous. 21 And their † nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged 14. his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD. o Heb. 7, 22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be 22. 23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth q chap. 28, forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind; it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. 13 There is none to plead thy cause, that thou 7 For thus saith the LORD, Sing with gladness mayest be bound up: thou hast "no healing medi- { for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations:3 cines. publish ye, praise ye, and say, O Lord, save thy Micah 4,3 people, the remnant of Israel. 14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee: they seek thee not: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an y enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for shepherd doth his flock. The stability of the church. 25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. Before CHRIST cir. 606. g Mat. 5, 6. h Zech. 4, 26 Upon this I hawaked, and beheld; and my 'sleep was sweet unto me. 27 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that 1,2 I will sow the house of Israel, and the house of i Ps. 127, 2. Judah, with the seed of man, and with the seed 1 Pet. 1, of beast. 23. 28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to 'pluck up, and to break down, 1 ch. 44, 27 and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, tom build, and to plant, saith m ch. 24, 6. 11 For the LORD hath *redeemed Jacob, and ran-the LORD. b 12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the * height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock, and of the herd: and their souls shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. d 14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD. 29 In those days they shall say say no more, n Then Lam. 5, 7. fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. o Ezek. 6, 9. Gal. 6, 6, 7. 30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: Eck every man that eateth the his teeth shall be set on edge. şour grape, 31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah ; p chap. 32, 40. Ezek. 37,25 Heb. 8, 6, 1 John 2,7 32 Not according to the covenant that I made is with their fathers, in the day that I took them by s the hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; q John 1, (which my covenant 'they brake, although I was a cor. 3, 8, husband unto them, saith the LORD ;) 17. 6. ch. 11, 8. 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make r Isa. 51, 1. with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Rom. 11,20. LORD, I will put my law in their 'inward parts, and $2 Cor. 1, write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and 30 they shall be my people. 15 Thus saith the LORD, A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted" g Mat. 2,16. for her children, because they were not. 16 Thus saith the LORD, Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. 17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border. 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was Pal. 94, chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God. 22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou back* Song 3, 6. sliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new a ch. 50, 5. thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man. 23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Mat. 1, 21. As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah, and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring d Isaiah 60, again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O c Psal. 122, 6,7. 21. Lev. 21, 27 • Isa. 11, 9. f Obad. ver 4519 20 James 1, 17. t Ps. 51, 6. 34 And they shall teach no more every man his ch. 32, 40. neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know u 2 Cor. 3, the LORD: for they shall all * know me, from the least Heb. 8, 10. of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: x Isa. 9,8,9. for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember y chap. 50, their sin no more. لله 35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun z Gen. 1, 16. for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth a Isa. 51, 15. the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name : 36 If those ordinances depart from before me, b Isa. 54, 9. saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. Jeremiah's imprisonment. Before in the court of the prison, which was in the king of other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this Before CHRIST Judah's house. cir. 590. CHRIST cir. 590. day: 21 And hast 'brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt, with signs, and with wonders, Ps. 3, 16.& will give this city into the { and with a strong hand, and with a stretched-out Isai 6,12 3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, 'I hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it; 4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape Ezek. 3,7,8. out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes; 2 Kings Zech. 1, 6. 25, 6. ichap. 27, 22. 5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye tight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper. 6 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, arm, and with great terror; e Ex. 9, 16. 83, 17, 18. f Ex. 6, 6. 22 And hast given them this land, which thou didst Ps. 136, 10, swear to their fathers to give them, ha land flowing & Deut. with milk and honey; 34. 23 And they came in, and possessed it; but they h Ex. 3, 8. Deut. 6, 1. 'obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law: i Neh. 3, they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst 26. them to do; therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them. Dan. 9, 10. & 37, 10. 24 Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand chap. 81. of the Chaldeans that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken 'is come to pass; and, behold, 1zech. 1, 6. 7 Behold, Hanameel, the son of Shallum, thine 1 Num. 35,2. uncle, shall come unto thee, saying, 'Buy thee my Lev. 25, field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemp-thou seest it. Ruth 4,4. 24. tion is thine to buy it. 25 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy 8 So Hanameel, mine uncle's son, came to me in thee the field for money, and take witnesses; for the court of the prison, according to the word of them the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, 26 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jerethat is in "Anathoth, which is in the country of Ben-{miah, saying, jamin for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. • Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD. 9 And I bought the field of Hanameel, mine uncle's p. Gen. 23, son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the Zach. 11,12 money, even seventeen shekels of silver. 16. 10 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances. 11 So I took the evidence of the purchase, both Dan. 6,4,5. that which was sealed according to the law and Col. 4, 5. 3, 4. custom, and that which was open : 12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto chap. 36, Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison. 13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying, 14 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Is 30 For the children of Israel, and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: sch. 2,2 for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD. 31 For this city hath been to me as 'a provocation t Isa. 65, 5. of mine anger and of my fury, from the day that they built it, even unto this day, that I should remove it from before my face; 32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel, rael, Take these evidences, this evidence of the pur-and of the children of Judah, which they have done chase, (both which is sealed,) and this evidence which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days: 15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Houses, and fields, and vineyards, shall be possessed again in this land. 16 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the ver. 37, 43. purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, " I prayed #2 Sam. 7, unto the LORD, saying, 18. Ezek. 36, 7. Dan. 9, 12. Job 42, 2. Luke 1, 37. 17 Ah, Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretch1 Gen. 18,4. ed-out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee: 18 Thou shewest loving-kindness unto thousands, y Ex. 34,7. and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the Ps. 145, 5. bosom of their children after them: The Great, The Titus 1, 13. Mighty God, The LORD of hosts, is his name; • Isa. 28, 29. ►Rev. 19, 20. & 20, 1,2 19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: (for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men; to give every one according to his ways, 2 Chr. 16, and according to the fruit of his doings :) 13 12 20 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land Peal 62, of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among 21. 37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries b Ezek. 57, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my Rom. 11,25 |