Jeremiah 27:12

Translations

Modern

And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke the same message: “Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and live!

Traditional

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.

Literal

And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke 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.

Latin

Et ad Sedeciam regem Juda locutus sum secundum omnia verba hæc, dicens: Subjicite colla vestra sub jugo regis Babylonis, et servite ei et populo ejus, et vivetis.

Original

Hebrew

English

And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke the same message: “Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and live!

Notes

Jeremiah 27:12–15

God's decree (Jeremiah 27:4–11) applied to Judah and the nearby nations equally.

Jeremiah 27:1–22

The Lord told Jeremiah to send messages to the ambassadors from nearby countries to announce the Lord’s judgment on them. Jeremiah was to show his message by wearing a wooden yoke. This event happened in 594 to 593 BC (see Jeremiah 28:1).

Theme notes and profiles

Jeremiah The Choice of Life or Death

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Jeremiah 38:17
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you indeed surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned down, and you and your household will survive.
Jeremiah 28:1
In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:
Jeremiah 27:2–3
This is what the LORD said to me: “Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck.
Jeremiah 27:8
As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.
Proverbs 1:33
But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”
2 Chronicles 36:11–13
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years.
Ezekiel 17:11–21
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

People

Judah: Israelite tribe, kingdom, and province Zedekiah: Last king of Judah before the Babylonian exile

Places

Babylon: Ancient Mesopotamian city, capital of Babylonian Empire, site of the Tower of Babel

Glossary

Ammon, Ammonites Book of Jeremiah Edom, Edomites

Topics

Christian Minister: False and Corrupt Zedekiah: Made King of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar by Jeremiah

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