Jeremiah 27:21

_WHICH NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF BABYLON TOOK NOT, WHEN HE CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE JECONIAH THE SON OF_ _ JEHOIAKIM KING OF JUDAH FROM JERUSALEM TO BABYLON, AND ALL THE NOBLES OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM;_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

He repeats again the same words, _Yea, thus saith Jehovah, _etc.; for so ought the particle כי, _ki, to _be rendered in this place. (191) And he emphatically expresses what was of itself sufficiently clear, that he might deeply imprint on their minds this declaration of God, and that thus some terror might penetrate into the hearts of those who were so obdurate that it was not easy to effect anything by a simple statement of the truth. _Thus, _then, _saith Jehovah of the vessels which yet remain in the Temple of Jehovah and in, the palace of the king, They shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall be, etc. _Jeremiah intimates that the Jews had no hope, as they were perversely resisting God and refusing to be chastised by his hand. And he says, _until the day in which I shall visit them, _the vessels; for so the reference may suitably be made; but as it is often the case in Hebrew...

19-22 Jeremiah assures them that the brazen vessels should go after the golden ones. All shall be carried to Babylon. But he concludes with a gracious promise, that the time would come when they should be brought back. Though the return of the prosperity of the church does not come in our time, we must not despair, for it will come in God's time....

EXPOSITION This and the two following chapters are closely connected. They all relate to the early part of the reign of Zedekiah, and con-rain warnings arising out of the deepening gloom of the political horizon. It must, however, be noted that there is evidently some mistake in the first verse of Jeremiah 27:1, and also that the contents of Jeremiah 29:1 point to a somewhat earlier time than Jeremiah 27:1; Jeremiah 28:1 (viz. the first or second year of King Zedekiah). To understand the circumstances of Jeremiah 27:1;

YEA, THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, CONCERNING THE VESSELS THAT REMAIN [IN] THE HOUSE OF THE LORD,.... Which are mentioned in Jeremiah 27:19; together with others: AND [IN] THE HOUSE OF THE KING OF JUDAH, AND OF JERUSALEM; see Jeremiah 27:18....

CHAPTER 27 The Optimism of the False Prophets Contradicted _ 1. The call of Nebuchadnezzar to be the servant of God (Jeremiah 27:1) _ 2. The call to submit and to serve the king of Babylon (Jeremiah 27:12) Jeremiah 27:1. It was in the earlier part of the reign of Zedekiah (Jehoiakim in Jeremiah 27:1 is a clerical error, see Jeremiah 27:3 and Jeremiah 27:12) that Jeremiah is commanded to make bonds and yokes to put them

THE WARNING TO ZEDEKIAH. Jeremiah also warns Zedekiah to the same effect (Jeremiah 27:12), and tells priests and people not to believe the prophets who promise an early return of the Temple vessels. Let the prophets rather pray that the vessels left by the Babylonians be not also carried off; for Yahweh intends to remove these also, that they may remain in Babylon until His appointed time. This warning was apparently successful; Zedekiah did not revolt until four or five years later. In order to quell the suspicions excited by the embassies of Jeremiah 27:3, he may have made the journey to Babylon mentioned in Jeremiah 51:59....

IN. Some codices, with three early printed editions, read this "in" in the text....

Speedy deliverance from Babylon is not to be hoped for These three Chapter s belong to the time of Zedekiah. The power of Babylon had already been demonstrated as to Judah. Some of the people had been carried captive, and the present king existed as such only upon sufferance. Under these circumstances the neighbouring nations were willing to make common cause with the Jews against their foe, while in Palestine there were still many who would not believe that the danger from Babylon was anything more than a passing one. In these three chs. therefore Jeremiah sets himself to correct the most pressing evil, namely this notion of the possibility of getting rid of the power which had become paramount in the Eastern world. In this ch. he addresses on the subject (Jeremiah 27:1) the neighbouring nations; (12 15) Zedekiah; (16 22) the priests and people concerning the false prophets; (in ch. 28...

D. A Warning to the Priests and People Jeremiah 27:16-22 TRANSLATION (16) And unto the, priests and all this people I spoke, saying, (17) Thus says the LORD: Do not hearken unto the words of your prophets who keep on prophesying to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the house of the LORD shall be returned from Babylon in just a short time; for they are prophesying falsehood to you. (18) But if they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, let them entreat the LORD of hosts in order that the vessels which remain in the house of the LORD, the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, do not go to Babylon. (19) For thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and the sea, and the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels which remain in this city, (20) which Nebuchadnezzar did not take when he took captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, ki