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Jeremiah

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In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, See also: Jeremiah 28:1 Jeremiah 27:19-20 Jeremiah 27:12the LORD says to me: “Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck. See also: Amos 7:1 Jeremiah 13:1-11 Jeremiah 18:2-10Then send them to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the children of Ammon, to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah. See also: Amos 1:9 Jeremiah 25:19-26 Ezekiel 29:18Give them a command to their masters, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says, “You shall tell your masters: See also: Jeremiah 51:19 Jeremiah 10:10 Jeremiah 10:16‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me. See also: Jeremiah 32:17 Jeremiah 51:15 Psalms 115:15-16Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. I have also given the animals of the field to him to serve him. See also: Jeremiah 28:14 Jeremiah 25:9 Daniel 2:37-38All the nations will serve him, his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their bondservant. See also: Jeremiah 52:31 Revelation 13:5-10 Isaiah 14:4-6“‘“‘It will happen that I will punish the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,’ says the LORD, ‘with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand. See also: Ezekiel 14:21 Jeremiah 38:17-19 Jeremiah 24:10But as for you, don’t listen to your prophets, to your diviners, to your dreams, to your soothsayers, or to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon;” See also: Jeremiah 14:14 Isaiah 8:19 Jeremiah 29:8for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, so that I would drive you out, and you would perish. See also: Jeremiah 32:31 Ezekiel 14:9-11 Jeremiah 23:25But the nation that brings their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him, that nation I will let remain in their own land,’ says the LORD; ‘and they will till it and dwell in it.’”’” See also: Jeremiah 27:2 Jeremiah 38:2 Jeremiah 21:9I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live. See also: Jeremiah 28:1 Jeremiah 38:17 Jeremiah 27:8Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? See also: Ezekiel 18:31 Jeremiah 27:8 Proverbs 8:36Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you. See also: Jeremiah 14:14 Jeremiah 23:21 Jeremiah 29:8-9For I have not sent them,” says the LORD, “but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.” See also: Jeremiah 27:10 Jeremiah 6:13-15 2 Chronicles 25:16Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, the LORD says, “Don’t listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of the LORD’s house will now shortly be brought again from Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you. See also: Jeremiah 28:3 2 Kings 24:13 Daniel 1:2Don’t listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation? See also: Jeremiah 7:34 Jeremiah 27:11-13 Jeremiah 38:23But if they are prophets, and if the LORD’s word is with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of Armies, that the vessels which are left in the LORD’s house, in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don’t go to Babylon. See also: 1 Samuel 7:8 Jeremiah 18:20 1 Samuel 12:19For the LORD of Armies says concerning the pillars, concerning the sea, concerning the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city, See also: 2 Kings 25:13 Jeremiah 52:17-23 2 Kings 25:17which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon didn’t take when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem— See also: Jeremiah 24:1 2 Chronicles 36:10 Jeremiah 22:28yes, the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says concerning the vessels that are left in the LORD’s house, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem: ‘They will be carried to Babylon, and there they will be, until the day that I visit them,’ says the LORD; ‘then I will bring them up, and restore them to this place.’” See also: Jeremiah 29:10 Ezra 7:19 Jeremiah 32:5

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)12 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Jeremiah 27:1

Ver. 1. Joakim. This revelation was made to the prophet in the beginning of the reign of Joakim: but the bands were not sent, to the princes here named, before the reign of Sedecias. v. 3. Ch. ---

He wore them six or seven years. Vat. T. --- But this is uncertain. Sept. omit this title. Syr.

Arab. &c. read "Sedecias." C. --- As far as Juda may belong to the last chapter.

S. Jerom includes the whole verse. H. --- It seems to be rather a fresh prophecy, or the title may be spurious, like many in the Psalms. See C. xxvi. 1.

and xxviii. 1. Is. xxi. 13.

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Jeremiah 27:2

Ver. 2. Chains. Heb. "a yoke and pole," (C.) or piece of wood for the necks of slaves. S. Jer. ---

Thus would the servitude of these nations be clearly represented. H. --- Bands and chains were proper signs, as they were used to bind captives. W.

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Jeremiah 27:3

Ver. 3. Edom. Thus he exercises the function of prophet among the nations. C.

i. 5. These had come to compliment Sedecias, or rather to form a league.

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Jeremiah 27:5

Ver. 5. Eyes. God disposes of all princes, &c. His prophets speak boldly. C.

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Jeremiah 27:6

Ver. 6. Beasts. The property of those people, or the most barbarous nations. S.

Jer. --- Hangmen and executioners may in the same sense be styled God's servants. W.

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Jeremiah 27:7

Ver. 7. His son; viz. Evilmerodach, and his son's son, viz. Nabonydus, or Nabonadius, the Baltassar of Daniel, (chap. v.) and the last of the Chaldean kings. Ch. --- Come. It will not be long before this rod is cast into the fire, the usual fate of those who execute God's vengeance.

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Jeremiah 27:9

Ver. 9. Prophets, who deluded the Jews, as diviners did the Gentiles.

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Jeremiah 27:10

Ver. 10. To remove. Heb. "that I may," &c. This will be the effect, though contrary to their intention.

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Jeremiah 27:11

Ver. 11. In it. None complied, and though the Idumeans, &c. joined the Chaldees against Juda, they were punished (C.) for their former league. v. 3. H.

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Jeremiah 27:16

Ver. 16. Time. Hananias specified two years, (C. xxviii. 3.) which proved false.

Some "silver vessels," (Bar. i. 8.) and not those of gold, it seems, (C.) or not all, (H.) were restored at the request of Saraias. C. li. 59.

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Jeremiah 27:18

Ver. 18. Hosts. If they prevail, account me a false prophet. C. --- The things taken shall not be soon restored; but more shall be conveyed away. W.

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Jeremiah 27:19

Ver. 19. To thee. Hebrew also, "concerning," as v. 21. (H.) though (C.) inanimate things are often spoken to. S. Jer.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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