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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jeremiah 27</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/27.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc//jeremiah/27-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/jeremiah/">Jeremiah</a> > Jeremiah 27</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/26.htm" title="Jeremiah 26">◄</a> Jeremiah 27 <a href="../jeremiah/28.htm" title="Jeremiah 28">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/jeremiah/27.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/27.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/jeremiah/27.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/27.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/jeremiah/27.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/27.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/27.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Yoke of Nebuchadnezzar<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>At the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>This is what the LORD said to me: <p class="reg">“Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Send word to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon through the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Give them a message from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, to relay to their masters: <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him. <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>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. <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’ <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For they prophesy to you a lie that will serve to remove you from your land; I will banish you and you will perish. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave in its own land, to cultivate it and reside in it, declares the LORD.” <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>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! <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Why should you and your people die by sword and famine and plague, as the LORD has decreed against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon? <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Do not listen to the words of the prophets who say, ‘You must not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they are prophesying to you a lie. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For I have not sent them, declares the LORD, and yet they are prophesying falsely in My name; therefore I will banish you, and you will perish—you and the prophets who prophesy to you.” <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then I said to the priests and to all this people, “This is what the LORD says: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Look, very soon now the articles from the house of the LORD will be brought back from Babylon.’ They are prophesying to you a lie. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin? <A name="19"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>If they are indeed prophets and the word of the LORD is with them, let them now plead with the LORD of Hosts that the articles remaining in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, not be taken to Babylon. <A name="20"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For this is what the LORD of Hosts says about the pillars, the sea, the bases, and the rest of the articles that remain in this city, <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried Jeconiah<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> son of Jehoiakim king of Judah into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Yes, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about the articles that remain in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem: <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/27-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>‘They will be carried to Babylon and will remain there until the day I attend to them again,’ declares the LORD. ‘Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.’<span class="thinq"> </span>”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> A few Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac (see also verses 3 and 12, and <a href="../jeremiah/28.htm">Jeremiah 28:1</a>); most Hebrew manuscripts <i>Jehoiakim</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Most LXX manuscripts do not include this verse.<br><span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <i>Jeconiah</i><span class="thin"> </span> is a variant of <i>Jehoiachin</i><span class="thin"> </span>; see <a href="../2_kings/24.htm#12">2 Kings 24:12</a>.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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