The Yoke of Nebuchadnezzar
At the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah 1son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD. 2 2Ch 36:11Jer 27:12Jer 27:19-20Jer 27:3Jer 28:1Jer 26:1 This is what the LORD said to me: Amo 7:11Ki 11:30-31Amo 7:4Ezk 12:1-28Ezk 24:3-12Ezk 4:1-5Isa 20:2-4Jer 13:1-11
“Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck. 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. 2Ch 36:13Amo 1:9Ezk 17:15-21Ezk 25:1-17Ezk 29:18Jer 25:19-26Jer 47:1-7 Give them a message from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, to relay to their masters: Exo 5:1Jer 10:10Jer 10:16Jer 25:27Jer 51:19
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. Jer 32:17Jer 51:15Psa 115:15-16Dan 4:17Heb 1:10-11Psa 146:5-6Col 1:16Isa 42:5 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. Jer 28:14Jer 25:9Dan 2:37-38Ezk 29:18-20Jer 43:10Isa 44:28Dan 5:18-19Jer 21:7 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. Jer 52:31Dan 5:25-31Isa 14:4-6Jer 25:11-14Rev 13:5-10Zec 2:8-92Ch 36:20-21Hab 2:7
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. Ezk 14:21Ezk 17:19-21Jer 24:10Jer 38:17-19Jer 25:28-29Jer 40:9Jer 42:10-18Jer 52:3-6
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.’ Jer 14:14Isa 8:19Jer 29:8Mal 3:5Act 8:11Isa 47:12-14Jer 23:16Jer 23:25 For they prophesy to you a lie that will serve to remove you from your land; I will banish you and you will perish. Jer 32:31Ezk 14:9-11Jer 23:25Jer 27:14Jer 28:16Lam 2:14 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.” Jer 21:9Jer 27:2Jer 27:8Jer 38:2Jer 27:12Jer 40:9-12Jer 42:10-11
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! Jer 28:1Jer 38:172Ch 36:11-13Ezk 17:11-21Jer 27:2-3Jer 27:8Pro 1:33 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? Ezk 18:31Jer 27:8Jer 38:20Pro 8:36Ezk 14:21Ezk 18:24Ezk 33:11Jer 24:9
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. Jer 14:142Co 11:13-15Jer 23:21Jer 29:8-91Jn 4:11Ki 22:22-232Pe 2:1-3Ezk 13:22-23 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.” Jer 27:102Ch 25:16Jer 14:15-16Jer 6:13-152Ch 18:17-222Th 2:9-122Ti 2:17-192Ti 4:3-4
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. 2Ki 24:13Jer 28:3Dan 1:2Jer 27:10Jer 27:142Ch 36:7-10Isa 9:15 Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin? Jer 27:11-13Jer 38:17Jer 38:23Jer 7:34
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. 1Sa 7:81Ki 18:241Sa 12:191Sa 12:23Jer 18:201Ki 18:262Ch 32:20Ezk 14:14
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, 2Ki 25:13Jer 52:17-232Ki 25:171Ki 7:15-222Ch 4:2-16 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried Jeconiah 3son of Jehoiakim king of Judah into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem. Jer 24:12Ch 36:102Ch 36:182Ki 24:14-16Jer 22:28 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: ‘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.’” Jer 29:10Ezr 7:19Jer 32:5Ezr 1:11Jer 25:11-12Ezr 5:13-15Pro 21:302Ch 36:17-18