Jeremiah 27:12

Jeremiah Uses Fetters And Yokes To Illustrate His Message Of Submission

¹¹ But as for that nation which puts its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and becomes his servant, I will let that nation keep on in its land, farming it and living in it, says the Lord. ¹² And I said all this to Zedekiah, king of Judah, saying, Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and become his servants and his people, so that you may keep your lives. ¹³ Why are you desiring death, you and your people, by the sword, and because food is gone, and by disease, as the Lord has said of the nation which does not become the servant of the king of Babylon?

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Judah

Zedekiah

Jeremiah 28:1

And it came about in that year, when Zedekiah first became king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah, the son of Azzur the prophet, who came from Gibeon, said to Jeremiah in the house of the Lord, before the priests and all the people,

Jeremiah 38:17

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, These are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel: If you go out to the king of Babylon's captains, then you will have life, and the town will not be burned with fire, and you and your family will be kept from death:

2 Chronicles 36:11-13

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years.

Proverbs 1:33

But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil.

Jeremiah 27:2-3

This is what the Lord has said to me: Make for yourself bands and yokes and put them on your neck;

Jeremiah 27:8

And it will come about, that if any nation does not become a servant to this same Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and does not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, then I will send punishment on that nation, says the Lord, by the sword and need of food and by disease, till I have given them into his hands.

Ezekiel 17:11-21

Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,