Jeremiah 27:12 Cross References - NSB

¹² I spoke the same message to King Zedekiah of Judah: »Surrender to the king of Babylon, serve him and his people, and you will stay alive.

¹¹ Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to rule. He ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem. ¹² He did what Jehovah his God considered evil. He did not humble himself in front of the prophet Jeremiah, who spoke Jehovah’s word. ¹³ Zedekiah also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar made Zedekiah swear an oath of allegiance to him in God’s name. But Zedekiah became so stubborn and so impossible to deal with that he refused to turn back to Jehovah the God of Israel.

³³ »Whoever listens to me will be secure and will be free from the fear of evil.«

² This is what Jehovah said to me: »Make leather straps and a wooden yoke, and strap the yoke on your neck. ³ »Then send messages to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon, with messengers who have come to King Zedekiah of Judah in Jerusalem.

⁸ »Suppose nations or kingdoms will not serve or surrender to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will punish those nations by wars, famines, and plagues, until I have put an end to them by Nebuchadnezzar's power,« says Jehovah.

¹ That same year, in the fifth month of the fourth year that Zedekiah was king, Hananiah son of Azzur, a prophet from the town of Gibeon, spoke to me in the Temple. In the presence of the priests and of the people he told me

¹⁷ Then I told Zedekiah that Jehovah, the God of Israel said: »If you surrender to the king of Babylon’s officers, your life will be spared, and this city will not be burned down. Both you and your family will be spared.

¹¹ Moreover, the word of Jehovah came to me: ¹² »Say now to the rebellious house: Do you not know what these things mean? Say, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took its king and princes and brought them to him in Babylon. ¹³ »He took one of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. He also took away the mighty of the land, ¹⁴ that the kingdom might be in subjection, not exalting itself, but keeping his covenant that it might continue. ¹⁵ »But he rebelled against him! He sent his envoys to Egypt that they might give him horses and many troops. Will he succeed? Will he who does such things escape? Can he indeed break the covenant and escape?’ ¹⁶ »‘»As I am alive,’ says the Lord Jehovah, ‘this king will die in Babylon because he broke his oath and the treaty with the one who put him on the throne the king of Babylon. ¹⁷ ‘»Even the powerful army of the king of Egypt will not be able to help him fight when the Babylonians build earthworks and dig trenches in order to kill many people. ¹⁸ ‘»He broke his oath and the treaty he had made. He did all these things, and now he will not escape.«’ ¹⁹ ‘»The Lord Jehovah says: »As surely as I am the living God, I will punish him for breaking the treaty that he swore in my name to keep. ²⁰ ‘»I will spread out a hunter's net and catch him in it. I will take him to Babylon and punish him there, because he was unfaithful to me. ²¹ ‘»His best troops will be killed in battle, and the survivors will be scattered in every direction. I Jehovah have spoken.«’