Jeremiah 27:12

Jeremiah Uses Fetters And Yokes To Illustrate His Message Of Submission

¹¹ And the nation which shall bring his neck into the yoke of the king of Babel and serve him, and I gave him rest upon his land, says Jehovah; and he worked it, and dwelt in it ¹² And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spake according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks into the yoke of the king of Babel, and serve him and his people, and live. ¹³ Wherefore will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword and by famine and by death, as Jehovah spake against the nation who will not serve the king of Babel?

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King of Judah

Submit to

Be Subject To

Babel

Babylon

Judah

Zedekiah

Jeremiah 28:1

And it will be in this year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah son of Azur the prophet which was from the hill, said to me in the house of Jehovah, before the eyes of the priests, and all the people, saying,

Jeremiah 38:17

And Jeremiah will say to Zedekiah, Thus said Jehovah, God of armies, God of Israel, If going forth, thou wilt go forth to the chiefs of the king of Babel, and thy soul lived, and this city shall not be burnt with fire; and thou livedst and thy house:

2 Chronicles 36:11-13

The son of twenty and one years was Zedekiah in his reigning, and eleven years reigned he in Jerusalem.

Proverbs 1:33

And he hearing to me shall dwell in confidence, and being quiet from fear of evil.

Jeremiah 27:2-3

Thus said Jehovah to me: Make to thee bonds and rods and give them upon thy neck,

Jeremiah 27:8

And it was the nation and kingdom which shall not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, and which shall not give his neck in the yoke of the king of Babel, with the sword and with famine and with death I will review upon that nation, says Jehovah, even to my finishing them by his hand.

Ezekiel 17:11-21

And the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying,