For Yahweh of Armies says concerning the pillars, concerning the sea, concerning the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn’t take when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; yes, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning the vessels that are left in Yahweh’s house, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem: ‘They will be carried to Babylon, and there they will be, until the day that I visit them,’ says Yahweh; ‘then I will bring them up, and restore them to this place.’ ”
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Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Yahweh says, “Don’t listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of Yahweh’s house will now shortly be brought again from Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you. Don’t listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation? But if they are prophets, and if Yahweh’s word is with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, that the vessels which are left in Yahweh’s house, in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don’t go to Babylon. For Yahweh of Armies says concerning the pillars, concerning the sea, concerning the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn’t take when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; yes, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning the vessels that are left in Yahweh’s house, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem: ‘They will be carried to Babylon, and there they will be, until the day that I visit them,’ says Yahweh; ‘then I will bring them up, and restore them to this place.’ ”
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For Yahweh of Armies says concerning the pillars, concerning the sea, concerning the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,
which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn’t take when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;
yes, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning the vessels that are left in Yahweh’s house, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem:
‘They will be carried to Babylon, and there they will be, until the day that I visit them,’ says Yahweh; ‘then I will bring them up, and restore them to this place.’ ”
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For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,
Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;
Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;
They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.
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For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,
which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;
yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem:
They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I remember them, saith the LORD, and bring them up, and restore them to this place.'
Cross-references (28)
- Jeremiah 29:10 (v22) For Yahweh says, “After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to…
- 2 Kings 25:13 (vv19, 22) The Chaldeans broke up the pillars of bronze that were in Yahweh’s house and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house, and…
- Ezra 7:19 (v22) The vessels that are given to you for the service of the house of your God, deliver before the God of Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 24:1 (v20) Yahweh showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before Yahweh’s temple, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away…
- Jeremiah 32:5 (v22) and he will bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will be there until I visit him,” says Yahweh: “though you fight with the Chaldeans, you will…
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- 2 Chronicles 36:10 (v20) At the return of the year, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of Yahweh’s house, and made…
- Ezra 1:11 (v22) All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand four hundred. Sheshbazzar brought all these up when the captives were brought up…
- Jeremiah 25:11-12 (v22) This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. “It will happen,…
- Jeremiah 52:17-23 (v19) The Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in Yahweh’s house, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house in…
- 2 Kings 24:14-16 (v20) He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and…
- 2 Kings 25:17 (v19) The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of bronze was on it. The height of the capital was three cubits, with…
- 2 Chronicles 36:18 (v20) All the vessels of God’s house, great and small, and the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes,…
- Ezra 5:13-15 (v22) But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God. The gold and silver vessels of…
- Proverbs 21:30 (v22) There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 22:28 (v20) Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast…
- 1 Kings 7:15-22 (v19) For he fashioned the two pillars of bronze, eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them. He made two…
- 2 Kings 24:13-17 (v22) He carried out from there all the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of…
- 2 Chronicles 4:2-16 (v19) Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim. It was round, five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference. Under it…
- 2 Chronicles 36:17-18 (v22) Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had…
- 2 Chronicles 36:21 (v22) to fulfill Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to…
- Ezra 1:7-8 (v22) Also Cyrus the king brought out the vessels of Yahweh’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house…
- Ezra 7:9 (v22) For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem,…
- Jeremiah 34:5 (v22) You will die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they will make a burning for you.…
- Jeremiah 52:17-21 (v22) The Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in Yahweh’s house, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house in…
- Daniel 5:1-4 (v22) Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, while he tasted the…
- Daniel 5:23 (v22) but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords,…
- Daniel 9:2 (v22) in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the…
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain On vv19–21 Jeremiah said, in the passage we considered yesterday, that…
Jeremiah said, in the passage we considered yesterday, that it was more to be desired that God should keep what remained at Jerusalem, than that what had been taken away should be restored, for the time of punishment had not yet passed away; and thus he condemned the false teachers, because they had presumptuously and boldly promised a quick return as to the king as well as to those who had been led with him into exile, he now confirms the same thing, and says that what remained as yet at Jerusalem was already destined for their enemies the Babylonians, and would become their prey. Nebuchadnezzar had in part spared the Temple and the city; he had taken away chiefly the precious vessels, but had not entirely spoiled the Temple of its ornaments. As, then, some splendor was still to be seen there, the Jews ought to have learned that he had acted kindly towards them. He now says, that the Temple and the city would be destroyed; and this may be gathered from his words when he says, that there would be nothing remaining.
Thus saith Jehovah concerning the pillars, etc. There is no doubt but that Solomon spent much money on the pillars, as the Scripture commends the work. He adds, concerning the sea, which was a very large vessel, for from it the priests took water to wash themselves whenever they entered the Temple to perform their sacred duties. And though it was made of brass, it was yet of no small value on account of its largeness; and for this reason it was called sea. He mentions, in the third place, the bases Jerome reads, “To the bases,” for the preposition is אל, but it means often of, or concerning, as it is well known. He then declares what God had determined as to the pillars as well as the sea and the bases. There were, indeed, other vessels besides; but he specified these in order that the king, and also the people, might know that nothing would be left remaining in the Temple.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v22 That is, for the space of seventy years till…
That is, for the space of seventy years till I have caused the Medes and Persians to overcome the Chaldeans.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv19, 20, 22 Jer 27:19 For thus saith the LORD of hosts…
Jer 27:19 For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,
Ver. 19. Concerning the sea, and concerning the pillars, &c.] Of these, see 1Ki 7:15; 1Ki 7:23; 1Ki 7:27.
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And concerning the residue of the vessels.] All the goodly plate, whether sacred or profane, that the moderation of the conqueror had left in the city. {a}
{a} Diod.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv19–22 These were all parts of the temple, or vessels…
These were all parts of the temple, or vessels used in it. See 1Ki 7.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv19–22 For thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the…
For thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the pillars,.... The pillars of brass that stood in the temple; the one called Boaz, and the other Jachin, Kg1 7:15;
and concerning the sea; the sea of molten brass, which stood upon twelve oxen, Kg1 7:23;
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and concerning the bases: the ten bases, which also were made of brass, Kg1 7:27;
and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city; in the king's palace, and in the houses of the noblemen, and of the rich and wealthy inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv19, 22 Verse 19. Concerning the pillars] Two brazen columns placed…
Verse 19. Concerning the pillars] Two brazen columns placed by Solomon in the pronaos or portico of the temple, eighteen cubits high, and twelve in circumference, 1Kg 7:16-22; Jer 52:11.
The sea] The brazen sea, ten cubits in diameter, and thirty in circumference. It contained water for different washings in the Divine worship, and was supported on twelve brazen oxen. Perhaps these are what are called the bases here. See the parallel places in the margin, and the notes on them (2Kg 25:13; Jer 52:17; Jer 52:20-21).
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v19 Jer 27:19-22. Thus saith the Lord concerning the pillars,…
Jer 27:19-22. Thus saith the Lord concerning the pillars, &c. — These were all parts of the temple, or vessels used in it: see 1 Kings 7. And all the nobles, &c. — Concerning the persons and things which the king of Babylon carried away, see 2Ki 24:13-15. Yea, thus saith the Lord — The prophet enlarges the divine threatening, and represents it as extending to all other vessels of value in the houses of the king, the nobles, or more wealthy citizens. They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be — See an historical account of the fulfilment of this prophecy, 2Ki 25:13-16; and 2Ch 36:18; and that they abode in Babylon till the end of the captivity, appears from Dan 5:2, where we read of Belshazzar’s sending for them, to drink wine in at his fatal feast; until the day that I visit them — That is, until the expiration of the time of the Jewish captivity, which was seventy years. Then will I restore them to this place — Of the fulfilling of which part of the prophecy we have an account Ezr 1:7-9. So punctually was Jeremiah’s prophecy in this place fulfilled, and so exactly does one part of holy writ agree with another, which are irrefragable proofs of the divine authority of the sacred Scriptures.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v19 To thee. Hebrew also, "concerning," as [in] ver. 21.,…
To thee. Hebrew also, "concerning," as [in] ver. 21., (Haydock) though (Calmet) inanimate things are often spoken to. (St. Jerome)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv19, 22 (Jer 52:17, Jer 52:20-21).
(Jer 52:17, Jer 52:20-21).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On v19 19. The pillars — Jachin and Boaz. 1Ki_7:21.
19. The pillars — Jachin and Boaz. 1Ki_7:21.
The sea — That is, the brazen sea. 1Ki_7:23.
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The bases — The frames or pedestals which supported the basins for washing the sacrificial flesh. 1Ki_7:27.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv19–20 19. The pillars, the sea (1Ki_7:23 ff.), and the…
19. The pillars, the sea (1Ki_7:23 ff.), and the bases (1Ki_7:27 ff.; 2Ch_4:6) were broken up by the Chaldaeans at Jerusalem (Jer_52:17), and thus could not in any case be restored. Various other treasures were restored by Cyrus (Ezr_1:7 ff.). Bar_6:8, however, speaks of “silver vessels which Sedekias the son of Josias king of Judah had made” as sent back in the lifetime of Jehoiachin.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv19, 22 (19) For thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning…
(19) For thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the pillars . . .—The “pillars” referred to were probably the two bronze columns known as Jachin and Boaz, on each side of the porch of the Temple (1Ki_7:21). The molten “sea,” standing on twelve oxen as its supporters, is described in 1Ki_7:23-26. The ten “bases” for the ten lavers, with their engraved work of cherubim, lions, and palm-trees, are described in 1Ki_7:27-37. The work of plunder was apparently confined, in the first instance, to the more portable vessels—cups, flagons, and the like. The absence of the specific list of the vessels in the LXX. version has led some critics to the conclusion that it was a later addition to the Hebrew text.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On v19 This and the two following verses are thus given…
This and the two following verses are thus given in the Septuagint: "For thus saith the Lord... and the rest of the vessels which the king of Babylon took not, when he carried Jeconiah captive from Jerusalem; they shall come to Babylon, saith the Lord." This shortened form throws a light on the fact of the absence of "now shortly" in ver. 16 (see note). The pillars, etc.; i.e. the two bronze pillars called Jachin and 1Ki_7:21. The sea; i.e. the molten "sea," or basin. (1Ki_7:23) The bases. (1Ki_7:27)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv19, 21 General Information:
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Jeremiah continues to bring the message of Yahweh.
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Yahweh of hosts says this
Jeremiah often uses these words to introduce an important message from Yahweh. See how you translated this in Jeremiah 6:6.
the pillars, the large basin known as "The Sea" and its base
These were objects that were in the temple. "The Sea" was a large bronze bowl.
Jehoiachin
The Hebrew text has "Jeconiah," which is a variation of the name "Jehoiachin." Many modern versions have "Jehoiachin" in order to make it clear that the same king is being referred to.
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Jehoiachin
Jehoiakim
kingdom of Judah
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noble
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv20, 22 27:20-22 When Judah’s king Jehoiachin was taken prisoner, King…
27:20-22 When Judah’s king Jehoiachin was taken prisoner, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon left the large, valuable furniture in the Temple, all of which he carried away in 586 BC.
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