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Jeremiah 28:3

in Jeremiah 28

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.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of Jehovah’s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon:

KJV

Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the Lord’s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon:

This verse in Jeremiah 28

Commentary

8 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

(Vers. 3, 4.) What Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, brought from this place, he also brought to Babylon. And I will bring back Jehoiachin, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles of Judah who went to Babylon, to this place, declares the Lord. For I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. Regarding these matters, the LXX translated: Jehoiachin and the exiles of Judah, for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon, summarizing the meaning of the Hebrew truth rather than giving word-for-word translations.

This site's exposition

I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon

on Jeremiah 28:2-4

Hananiah takes up Jeremiah's own picture and turns it over: “I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.” He promises the articles back “Within two years.” At 27:22 Jeremiah had said the articles would stay in Babylon, and Hananiah's fixed two years is the nearer, more pleasing word.

This site's exposition

Within two years I will restore

Hananiah sets a date, “Within two years.” Barnes notes that the Hebrew reads two years of days, that is, two full years. The articles he promises back are the ones 27:22 said would stay in Babylon.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Now, upon the reading of this sham prophecy, and comparing it with the messages that God sent by the true prophets, we may observe what a vast difference there is between them. Here is nothing of the spirit and life, the majesty of style and sublimity of expression, that appear in the discourses of God's prophets, nothing of that divine flame and flatus.
Within two full years,.... Or, "within two years of days" (o); when they are up to a day.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Within two full years - literally, In yet two years even days. Hananiah probably was induced to fix this date by the expectation that the confederacy then on foot would defeat Nebuchadnezzar.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

two full years--literally, "years of days." So "a month of days," that is, all its days complete (Ge 29:14, Margin; It was marvellous presumption to speak so definitely without having any divine revelation.

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Within two full years - Time sufficient for the Chaldeans to destroy the city, and carry away the rest of the sacred vessels; but he did not live to see the end of this short period.

The words behind it

23 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.

  • בְּע֣וֹד׀in yet

    beodH5750 →490 times

  • שְׁנָתַ֣יִםtwo years

    shenatayimH8141 →877 times

  • יָמִ֗יםdays

    yamimH3117 →2304 times

  • אֲנִ֤יI

    ʾaniH589 →874 times

  • מֵשִׁיב֙[will] bring back

    meshivH7725 →1056 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַמָּק֣וֹםthe place

    hamakomH4725 →401 times

  • הַזֶּ֔ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • אֶֽת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • כְּלֵ֖י[the] articles of

    keleiH3627 →325 times

  • בֵּ֣ית[the] house of

    beitH1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֨רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • לָקַ֜חhe took

    lakachH3947 →966 times

  • נְבוּכַדנֶאצַּ֤רNebuchadnezzar

    nevukhadnetzarH5019 →60 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H4428 →2525 times

  • בָּבֶל֙Babylon

    bavelH894 →262 times

  • מִן־from

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • הַמָּק֣וֹםthe place

    hamakomH4725 →401 times

  • הַזֶּ֔ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • וַיְבִיאֵ֖םand he brought them

    vayviemH935 →2568 times

  • בָּבֶֽל׃Babylon

    bavelH894 →262 times

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.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 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.”

  • Through

    Psalms 90:10

    The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 34:7

      Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • James 4:14

      You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

    • Psalms 78:39

      He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

    • 2 Samuel 19:35

      I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men…

    • Genesis 47:9

      “My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.