Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
Serve
Wherefore
Bible References
Serve
Jeremiah 27:11
But the nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and will serve him, yet will I leave it on its land," {declares} Yahweh, "and they will till it, and they will live in it." '"
Wherefore
Jeremiah 27:13
Why should you die--you and your people--by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Jeremiah 38:17
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, 'If only you will go surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then {you} will live, and this city will not be burned with fire, and you will live, you and your house.