Jeremiah 24:8 Cross References - Rotherham

⁸ And, like the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, for badness, Surely, thus, saith Yahweh––so, will I deliver up Zedekiah king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them who are dwelling in the land of Egypt;

¹⁰ For I have set my face against this city, for calamity and not for blessing, Declareth Yahweh,––Into the hand of the king of Babylon, shall it be given up, and he will burn it with fire.

² the one basket, was of very good figs, like the first–ripe, figs; and, the other basket, was of very bad figs, which could not be eaten, for badness.

⁵ Thus, saith Yahweh God of Israel, Like these, good, figs, so, will I regard them of Judah who are carried into captivity, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

¹⁶ For, thus, saith Yahweh, Against the king who is sitting on the throne of David, and, Against all the people who are remaining in this city,––your brethren who have not gone forth with you into captivity: ¹⁷ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Behold me! sending upon them, sword, famine, and pestilence,––So will I make them like the horrid figs, that cannot be eaten for badness; ¹⁸ Therefore will I pursue them, with sword, with famine, and with pestilence,––And will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, A curse and an astonishment and a hissing and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:

²⁸ Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh,––Behold me! giving this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall capture it; ²⁹ And the Chaldeans, who are fighting against this city, Shall enter, and, Shall set this city on fire, and, Shall consume it,––With the houses on whose roofs they burned incense to Baal, and poured out drink–offerings to other, gods, that they might provoke me to anger;

¹⁷ Therefore––Thus, saith Yahweh, Ye, have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every man to his brother and every man to his neighbour: Behold me! proclaiming, to you, a liberty, Declareth Yahweh, unto the sword, unto the pestilence, and unto the famine, so will I make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth; ¹⁸ and will give the men who are transgressing my covenant, in that they have not confirmed the words of the covenant, which they solemnised, before me, when they cut, the calf, in twain, and passed between the parts thereof; ¹⁹ even the princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land,––who passed between the parts of the calf, ²⁰ yea I will give them into the hand, of their enemies, and into the hand of them who are seeking their life,––and their dead bodies shall become food, for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth. ²¹ Zedekiah king of Judah also, with his princes, will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them who are seeking their life,––even into the hand of the force of the king of Babylon, who are going up from you. ²² Behold me! giving command, Declareth Yahweh, and I will bring them back unto this city, and they will fight against it, and capture it, and consume it with fire,––and, the cities of Judah, will I make too desolate to have an inhabitant.

¹⁰ For, though ye had smitten all the force of the Chaldeans who are fighting with you, and there had remained of them only desperately wounded, men, yet, every man in his tent, should have arisen and burnt this city, with fire.

¹⁷ then sent King Zedekiah––and fetched him, and the king, asked him, in his own house, secretly, and said,––Is, there a word from Yahweh? And Jeremiah said,––There is, for (said he), Into the hand of the king of Babylon, shalt thou be delivered!

¹⁸ But, if thou wilt not go forth unto the princes of the king of Babylon, then shall this city be delivered into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and, thou, shalt not escape out of their hand. ¹⁹ Then said King Zedekiah, unto Jeremiah: I, am afraid of the Jews, who have fallen away unto the Chaldeans, lest they deliver, me, into their hand, and they maltreat me. ²⁰ But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver!––Hearken, I pray thee, unto the voice of Yahweh, in what I, am speaking unto thee, that it may be well with thee, and thy soul live. ²¹ But, if thou, art refusing to go forth, this, is the thing which Yahweh hath shewed, me:–– ²² behold, then, all the women that are left in the house of the king of Judah, brought forth unto the princes of the king of Babylon,––and, those very women, saying, The men thou wast wont to salute, have goaded thee on, and prevailed upon thee,––Thy foot, having sunk in the mire, they have turned away, back. ²³ Yea [thou shalt behold] all thy wives and thy children, brought forth unto the Chaldeans, and, thou, shalt not escape out of their hand,––but, by the hand of the king of Babylon, shalt thou be taken, and, this city, shall be burned with fire.

² In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, was the city, broken into. ³ Then came in all the princes of the king of Babylon, and sat in the middle gate,––Nergal–sharezer, Samgar–nebo, Sarsechim, chief eunuch, Nergal–sharezer, chief soothsayer, and all the residue, of the princes of the king of Babylon. ⁴ And it came to pass, as soon as Zedekiah king of Judah and all the men of war saw, them, that they fled, and went forth by night out of the city, by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls,––and he went forth by way of the waste plain. ⁵ But the force of the Chaldeans pursued, them, and overtook Zedekiah, in the waste plains of Jericho, and when they had taken him, they brought him up unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, to Riblah, in the land of Hamath,––and pronounced upon him sentences of judgment. ⁶ And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah, in Riblah, before his eyes,––and, all the nobles of Judah, did the king of Babylon slay; ⁷ and, the eyes of Zedekiah, did he put out, and bound him with fetters of bronze, to bring him into Babylon. ⁸ And, the house of the king, and the houses of the people, did the Chaldeans burn with fire, and, the walls of Jerusalem, brake they down; ⁹ and, the remnant of the people who were left in the city, and the disheartened, who fell away unto him, and the remnant of the people who were left, did Nebuzaradan chief of the royal executioners, take captive to Babylon.

¹ And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end, of speaking unto all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which Yahweh their God had sent, him unto them,––even all these words,

¹ The word which came to Jeremiah, against all the Jews who were dwelling in the land of Egypt,––who were dwelling in Migdol, and in Tahpanhes, and in Noph, and in the land of Pathros, saying:

²⁶ Therefore, hear ye the word of Yahweh, all Judah, who are dwelling in the land of Egypt,––Behold me! I have sworn by my great Name, Saith Yahweh, That my Name, shall no more, be invoked by the mouth of any man of Judah, saying––By the life of My Lord, Yahweh, in all the land of Egypt. ²⁷ Behold me! watching over them, for calamity, and not for blessing,––so shall all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt, be consumed, by sword and by famine, until there be an end of them. ²⁸ Yet, the fugitives of the sword, shall certainly return, out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, men easily counted,––that all the remnant of Judah who are entering Egypt to sojourn there, may know, whose word, shall stand, mine or theirs! ²⁹ And, this, to you, shall be the sign, Declareth Yahweh, that I, am about to bring punishment upon you in this place,––that ye may know that my words shall, certainly stand, against you, for calamity: ³⁰ Thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! delivering up Pharaoh–hophra king of Egypt, into the hand of his enemies, yea into the hand of them who are seeking his life,––just as I delivered Zedekiah king of Judah, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon his enemy, and one seeking his life.

² And he did that which was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,––according to all that, Jehoiakim, had done. ³ For it was, because, the anger of Yahweh, had come against Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them, out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled, against the king of Babylon. ⁴ And it came to pass, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his force, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it,––and he built against it a siege–wall, round about. ⁵ And the city, came into, the siege,––until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. ⁶ In the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, when the famine had become severe, in the city,––and there had come to be no bread for the people of the land, ⁷ then was the city, broken up, and, all the men of war, beginning to flee, went forth out of the city by night, by way of the gate between the two walls which was by the garden of the king (the Chaldeans being near the city round about), ––and they went the way towards the Waste Plain. ⁸ And the force of the Chaldeans pursued, the king, and overtook Zedekiah, in the Waste Plains of Jericho,––and, all his force, was scattered from him. ⁹ So they seized the king, and brought him up unto the king of Babylon at Riblah, in the land of Hamath,––and he pronounced upon him sentences of judgment. ¹⁰ And the king of Babylon slew, the sons of Zedekiah, before his eyes,––moreover also, all the princes of Judah, slew he in Riblah; ¹¹ and, the eyes of Zedekiah, put he out,––and bound him with fetters of bronze, and the king of Babylon took, him to Babylon, and put him in prison––until the day of his death.

¹² Yea, the Bearer who is in their midst, Upon his shoulder, shall lift it. In thick darkness, shall he go forth, Through the wall, shall they break, to bear forth through it,––His face, shall he cover, to the end that, his own eye, may not see the land. ¹³ Then will I spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare; And I will take him to Babylon, in the land of the Chaldeans, The which, indeed, he shall not see. And yet, there, shall he die! ¹⁴ And, all who are round about him to help him, and all his troops, will I scatter to every wind,––and, a sword, will I make bare after them. ¹⁵ So shall they know, that, I, am Yahweh,––By my dispersing them among the nations, And scattering them throughout the lands. ¹⁶ Yet will I leave remaining of them, men easily counted, from the sword, from the famine and from the pestilence,––that they may recount all their abominations among the nations whither they have come, So shall they know, that, I, am Yahweh.

¹¹ Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying: ¹² Say, I pray thee, unto the perverse house, Know ye not what these things are? Say thou, Lo! the King of Babylon entered Jerusalem, And took her king and her princes, And brought them unto him in Babylon; ¹³ Yea took of the seed royal, And solemnised with him a covenant,––And brought him into an oath, Also, the mighty ones of the land, did he take. ¹⁴ That, the kingdom, might be, abased, so as not to lift itself up,––By the keeping of his covenant, might be made to stand. ¹⁵ But he hath rebelled against him, by sending his messengers to Egypt, that there should be given to him horses, and much people. Shall he thrive? Shall he escape that doeth these things? Shall he break a covenant, and escape? ¹⁶ As I live, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, Very! in the place where dwelleth the king that made him, king, Whose oath he hath despised, And whose covenant he hath broken, With him, in the midst of Babylon, shall he die. ¹⁷ Neither shall Pharaoh, with a great force, or with a large gathered host, work with him, in the war, by casting up an earthwork, and by building a siege–wall, ––to the cuting off of many lives. ¹⁸ Seeing he hath despised an oath, by breaking a covenant––yea lo! hath given his hand, and, all these things, hath done, he shall not escape. ¹⁹ Therefore, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, As I live, Surely it is mine oath, which he hath despised, And, my covenant, which he hath broken, Therefore will I bring it upon his own head: ²⁰ And I will spread over him my net, And he shall be taken in my snare, And I will bring him into Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there, as to his treachery wherewith he hath been treacherous against me; ²¹ And, all his fugitives, throughout all his bands, by the sword, shall fall, And, they who are left, to every wind, shall be scattered,––So shall ye know, that, I, Yahweh, have spoken!