The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Jeremiah 27:16 (NIV)

Then I said to the priests and all these people, ‘This is what the Lord says: do not listen to the prophets who say,
“Very soon now the articles from the Lord’s house will be brought back from Babylon.” They are prophesying lies to you.

 

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Jeremiah 27:17 (ESV)
Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a desolation?

 

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Jeremiah 27:18 (NKJV)
But if they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, do not go to Babylon.’

 

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Jeremiah 27:19 (1599 Geneva Bible)

For thus saith the Lord of hosts, concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases,
and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,

 

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Jeremiah 27:20 (1599 Geneva Bible)

Which Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim
king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babel, with all the nobles of Judah, and Jerusalem.

 

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Jeremiah 27:21 (NKJV)
yes, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem:

 

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Jeremiah 27:22 (ESV)
They shall be carried to Babylon and remain there until the day when I visit them, declares the LORD. Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.”

 

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Jeremiah 28:1 (NIV)

In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, early in the reign of Zedekiah king 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:

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 28:2 (NIV)

‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

 

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Jeremiah 28:3 (BSB)
Within two years I will restore to this place all the articles of the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed from here and carried to Babylon.

 

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Jeremiah 28:4 (ESV)
I will also bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon, declares the LORD, for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.”

 

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Jeremiah 28:5 (KJV)

5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests,
and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the Lord,

 

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Jeremiah 28:6 (KJV)

Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the Lord do so: the Lord perform thy words which thou hast prophesied,
to bring again the vessels of the Lord's house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.

 

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Jeremiah 28:7 (KJV)

Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people;

 

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Jeremiah 28:8 (NASB)
The prophets who were before me and before you from ancient times also prophesied against many lands and against great kingdoms regarding war, disaster, and plague.

 

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Jeremiah 28:9 (CSB)

As for the prophet who prophesies peace—only when the word of the prophet comes true will the prophet
be recognized as one the Lord has truly sent.”

 

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Jeremiah 28:10 (CSB)

The prophet Hananiah then took the yoke bar from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and broke it.

 

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Jeremiah 28:11 (CSB)

In the presence of all the people Hananiah proclaimed, “This is what the Lord says: ‘In this way,
within two years I will break the yoke of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon from the neck of all the nations.’”
The prophet Jeremiah then went on his way.

 

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Jeremiah 28:12 KJV

Then the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

 

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Jeremiah 28:13 KJV

Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.