Jeremiah 27:9 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 27:9

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.’

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But as for you, hearken ye not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:

KJV

Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:

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Commentary

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Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Particular prophecies against these nations that bordered on Israel severally, the ruin of which is here foretold in the general, we shall meet with, ch. xlviii. and xlix., and Ezek. xxv. , which had the same accomplishment with this here.

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְ֠אַתֶּם	Ve.'a.tem	and you	H859 →
אַל־	'al-	may not	H408 →
תִּשְׁמְע֨וּ	tish.me.'U	you listen	H8085 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
נְבִיאֵיכֶ֜ם	ne.vi.'ei.Khem	prophets your	H5030 →
וְאֶל־	ve.'el-	and to	H413 →
קֹֽסְמֵיכֶ֗ם	ko.se.mei.Khem	diviners your	H7080 →
וְאֶל֙	ve.'El	and to	H413 →
חֲלֹמֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם	cha.lo.Mo.tei.Khem	dreams your	H2472 →
וְאֶל־	ve.'el-	and to	H413 →
עֹֽנְנֵיכֶ֖ם	'o.ne.nei.Khem	soothsayers your	H6049 →
וְאֶל־	ve.'el-	and to	H413 →
כַּשָּׁפֵיכֶ֑ם	ka.sha.fei.Khem	sorcerers your	H3786 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	who	H834 →
הֵ֞ם	hem	they	H1992 →
אֹמְרִ֤ים	'o.me.Rim	[are] saying	H559 →
אֲלֵיכֶם֙	'a.lei.Khem	to you	H413 →
לֵאמֹ֔ר	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
תַעַבְד֖וּ	ta.'av.Du	you will serve	H5647 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
מֶ֥לֶךְ	Me.lekh	[the] king of	H4428 →
בָּבֶֽל׃	ba.Vel	Babylon	H894 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Malachi 3:5
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud…
leads to
- James 5:8–9
  You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.
- Hebrews 13:4
  Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Through
Revelation 22:15
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
leads to
- Revelation 21:8
  But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This…
- Galatians 5:19–21
  The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
Through
Isaiah 8:19
When men tell you to consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
leads to
- 1 Chronicles 10:13
  So Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance,
- Leviticus 20:6
  Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.
- 2 Chronicles 33:6
  He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking…
Through
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,…
leads to
- Ezekiel 13:6–7
  They see false visions and speak lying divinations. They claim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ when the LORD did not send them; yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.