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Jeremiah 27:16

in Jeremiah 27

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.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Jehovah’s house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie unto you.

KJV

Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the Lord’s house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

This verse in Jeremiah 27

Commentary

8 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

(Verse 16, 17.) And I spoke to the priests and to this people, saying: thus says the Lord: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying: Behold, the vessels of the Lord will return from Babylon now quickly: for they are prophesying lies to you. This, which we have now set, in the Septuagint is not present: and that which follows, Do not listen to them, but serve the king of Babylon, so that you may live. Why is this city being laid waste?

This site's exposition

Then I said to the priests

on Jeremiah 27:16-18

The priests are warned against the promise that “very soon now the articles from the house of the LORD will be brought back from Babylon.” Jeremiah offers a test: if they are prophets, “let them now plead with the LORD of Hosts” that the articles still in Jerusalem stay.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening5 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the L ORD ; and they shall till it, and dwell therein. Some difficulty occurs in the date of this prophecy. This word is said to come to Jeremiah in the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim (

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

They are not God's prophets; he never sent them; they do not serve him, nor seek to please him; they are yours, for they say what you would have them say, and aim at nothing but to please you." Two things their prophets flattered them into the belief of:-- 1.

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

); this they fed the priests with the hopes of, knowing how acceptable it would be to them, who loved the gold of the temple better than the temple that sanctified the gold. These vessels were taken away when Jeconiah was carried captive into Babylon,

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), yet he that said, They shall at length be brought again, prophesied the truth. We are apt to set our clock before God's dial, and then to quarrel because they do not agree; but the Lord is a God of judgment, and it is fit that we should wait for him.

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Also I spake to the priests, and to all this people, saying,....
1 more voice on this verse

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The vessels of the Lord’s house - Which had been carried away by Nebuchadnezzar under the reigns of Jehoiakim and Jeconiah, 2Ch 36:7-10. Shall now shortly be brought again - This is a lie. They shall not be restored till I bring them up, Jer 27:22, which was after the captivity, when they were sent back by Cyrus, the Lord inclining his heart to do it, Ezr 1:7, and Ezr 7:19.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

“Behold the vessels of the house of the Lord” That were exiled with Jeconiah.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Jeremiah 27:16:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

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

32 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וְאֶל־and to

    veel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַכֹּהֲנִים֩the priests

    hakohanimH3548 →750 times

  • וְאֶל־and to

    veel-H413 →5510 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָעָ֨םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • הַזֶּ֜ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • דִּבַּ֣רְתִּיI spoke

    dibartiH1696 →1141 times

  • לֵאמֹ֗ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • כֹּה֮thus

    kohH3541 →577 times

  • אָמַ֣רhe says

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • יְהוָה֒Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אַֽל־may not

    ʾal-H408 →724 times

  • תִּשְׁמְע֞וּyou listen

    tishmeuH8085 →1159 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • דִּבְרֵ֣י[the] words of

    divreiH1697 →1440 times

  • נְבִֽיאֵיכֶ֗םprophets your

    nevieikhemH5030 →314 times

  • הַֽנִּבְּאִ֤יםwho are prophesying

    hanibeimH5012 →115 times

  • לָכֶם֙to <the> you

    lakhem

  • לֵאמֹ֔ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • הִנֵּ֨הthere!

    hinehH2009 →843 times

  • כְלֵ֧י[the] articles of

    kheleiH3627 →325 times

  • בֵית־[the] house of

    veit-H1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָ֛הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • מוּשָׁבִ֥ים[are] about to be brought back

    mushavimH7725 →1056 times

  • מִבָּבֶ֖לָהfrom Babylon <towards>

    mibavelahH894 →262 times

  • עַתָּ֣הnow

    ʾatahH6258 →433 times

  • מְהֵרָ֑הquickly

    meherahH4120 →

  • כִּ֣יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • שֶׁ֔קֶרfalsehood

    shekerH8267 →113 times

  • הֵ֖מָּהthey

    hemahH1992 →553 times

  • נִבְּאִ֥ים[are] prophesying

    nibeimH5012 →115 times

  • לָכֶֽם׃to <the> you

    lakhem

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Daniel 1:2

    And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house…

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 36:7

      Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.

    • Jeremiah 27:19–20

      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,

    • Zechariah 5:11

      “To build a house for it in the land of Shinar,” he told me. “And when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its pedestal.”

    • Deuteronomy 32:30

      How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

  • Through

    2 Kings 24:13

    As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 39:6

      The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.

    • 2 Kings 20:17

      The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.

    • Jeremiah 20:5

      I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 27:14

    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.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 14:14

      “The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination,…

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About Jeremiah

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.