Jeremiah 27:2
in Jeremiah 27This is what the LORD said to me: “Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thus saith Jehovah to me: Make thee bonds and bars, and put them upon thy neck;
KJV
Thus saith the Lord to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,
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This verse in Jeremiah 27
Commentary
3 notes on this verse(Verse 2.) This is what the Lord says to me: Make for yourself chains and shackles. Or κλοιοὺς, which are called Mutoth () in Hebrew, and in the common language they are called Boias.
This site's exposition
Make thee bonds and yokes
on Jeremiah 27:2-4
Jeremiah is told to make yokes and bonds and wear them on his own neck before sending replicas to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre and Zidon by the hand of ambassadors already gathered in Jerusalem before Zedekiah. The command joins the book's run of enacted signs, the girdle of chapter 13 and the broken bottle of chapter 19 already behind him, the yoke now carried into an international audience rather than spoken only to Judah. Five kings receive one message through messengers who did not come to hear a sermon, which the bench reads as proof the word was meant to travel further than the room it was spoken in.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
We find him with one on, ch. xxviii. Hereby he intimated that he advised them to nothing but what he was resolved to do himself; for he was not one of those that bind heavy burdens on others, which they themselves will not touch with one of their fingers.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
thongs They are the thongs of the yoke that are called kongoijli (cojongles).
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim Three years prior to Nebuchadnezzar’s ascent to the throne, he prophesied about him that he would reign.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כֹּֽה־ | koh- | thus | H3541 → | 577 times |
| אָמַ֤ר | ʾamar | he said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| יְהוָה֙ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֵלַ֔י | ʾelai | to me | H413 → | 5510 times |
| עֲשֵׂ֣ה | ʾaseh | make | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| לְךָ֔ | lekha | for <the> yourself | ||
| מוֹסֵר֖וֹת | moserot | fetters | H4147 → | 11 times |
| וּמֹט֑וֹת | umotot | and yoke-bars | H4133 → | 12 times |
| וּנְתַתָּ֖ם | unetatam | and you will put them | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| צַוָּארֶֽךָ׃ | tzavarekha | neck your | H6677 → | 42 times |
כֹּֽה־thus
koh-H3541 →577 times
אָמַ֤רhe said
ʾamarH559 →5305 times
יְהוָה֙Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֵלַ֔יto me
ʾelaiH413 →5510 times
עֲשֵׂ֣הmake
ʾasehH6213 →2628 times
לְךָ֔for <the> yourself
lekha
מוֹסֵר֖וֹתfetters
moserotH4147 →11 times
וּמֹט֑וֹתand yoke-bars
umototH4133 →12 times
וּנְתַתָּ֖םand you will put them
unetatamH5414 →2011 times
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
צַוָּארֶֽךָ׃neck your
tzavarekhaH6677 →42 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Amos 7:1This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.
it leads to
- Joel 1:4
What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
- Amos 8:1
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
- Isaiah 33:4
Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.
- Joel 2:25
I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.
- Amos 4:9
“I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
- Joel 1:4
Through
Jeremiah 27:12And 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!
it leads to
- 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…
- 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,…
- Jeremiah 28:1
Through
Amos 7:4This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.
it leads to
- Isaiah 66:15–16
For behold, the LORD will come with fire—His chariots are like a whirlwind—to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire.
- Isaiah 66:15–16
Where this verse is studied
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About Jeremiah
This page draws on Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.