Verse 17
Jeremiah 27:17
English Revised Version
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Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a desolation?
Original Language Text
hebrew
אַל תִּשְׁמְע֣וּ אֲלֵי/הֶ֔ם עִבְד֥וּ אֶת מֶֽלֶךְ בָּבֶ֖ל וִֽ/חְי֑וּ לָ֧/מָּה תִֽהְיֶ֛ה הָ/עִ֥יר הַ/זֹּ֖את חָרְבָּֽה
English Translation
Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a ruin?
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Chapter 27 Context
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In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word unto Jer...
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Thus saith the LORD to me: Make thee bands and bars, and put them upon thy neck;
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and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon...
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and give them a charge unto their masters; saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God (Elohim) of...
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I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power...
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And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant...
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And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land...
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And it shall come to pass, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnez...
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But as for you, hearken ye not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to yo...
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for they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out...
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But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, tha...
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12
And I spake to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under t...
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Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LOR...
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And hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the k...
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For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I might drive y...
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Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the LORD: Hearken not to the...
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Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a deso...
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But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to...
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For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the...
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which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jeho...
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yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God (Elohim) of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left...
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They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit them, saith th...
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