Verse 17
Jeremiah 27:17
Geneva Bible
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Heare them not, but serue the King of Babel, that ye may liue: wherefore shoulde this citie be desolate?
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 reigne of Iehoiakim the sonne of Iosiah King of Iudah came this worde vnto I...
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Thus saith the Lord to me, Make thee bonds, and yokes, and put them vpon thy necke,
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And send them to the King of Edom, and to the King of Moab, and to the King of the Ammonites, and to...
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And commande them to saye vnto their masters, Thus saith the Lord of hostes the God (Elohim) of Isra...
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I haue made the earth, the man, and the beast that are vpon the groud, by my great power, and by my...
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But nowe I haue giuen all these landes into the hand of Nebuchad-nezzar the King of Babel my seruant...
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And all nations shall serue him, and his sonne, and his sonnes sonne vntill the very time of his lan...
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And the nation and kingdome which will not serue the same Nebuchad-nezzar king of Babel, and that wi...
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Therefore heare not your prophets nor your southsayers, nor your dreamers, nor your inchanters, nor...
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For they prophecie a lie vnto you to cause you to goe farre from your lande, and that I should cast...
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But the nation that put their neckes vnder the yoke of the King of Babel, and serue him, those wil I...
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I spake also to Zedekiah king of Iudah according to all these wordes, saying, Put your neckes vnder...
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Why will ye dye, thou, and thy people by the sworde, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lo...
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Therefore heare not the words of the prophets, that speake vnto you, saying, Ye shall not serue the...
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For I haue not sent them, saith the Lord, yet they prophecie a lie in my name, that I might cast you...
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Also I spake to the Priests, and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Heare not the word...
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Heare them not, but serue the King of Babel, that ye may liue: wherefore shoulde this citie be desol...
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But if they be Prophets, and if the word of the Lord be with them, let them intreate the Lord of hos...
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For thus saith the Lord of hostes, concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning th...
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Which Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel tooke not, when he caryed away captiue Ieconiah the sonne of Ieh...
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For thus saith the Lord of hostes the God (Elohim) of Israel, concerning the vessels that remaine in...
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They shall be brought to Babel, and there they shalbe vntil the day that I visite them, saith the Lo...
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