1In the beginning of the reign of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying:

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Jeremiah 27:12, Jeremiah 28:1, Jeremiah 27:19, Jeremiah 27:20, Jeremiah 27:3

2Thus saith the Lord to me: Make thee bands, and chains: and thou shalt put them on thy neck.

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1 Kings 11:30, 1 Kings 11:31, Isaiah 20:2, Isaiah 20:4, Jeremiah 13:1

3And thou shalt send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon: by the hand of the messengers that are come to Jerusalem to Sedecias the king of Juda.

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Amos 1:9, Amos 2:3, Jeremiah 25:19, Jeremiah 25:26, 2 Chronicles 36:13

4And thou shalt command them to speak to their masters: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Thus shall you say to your masters:

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Jeremiah 10:10, Jeremiah 51:19, Jeremiah 10:16, Jeremiah 25:27, Exodus 5:1

5I made the earth, and the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power, and by my stretched out arm: and I have given it to whom it seemed good in my eyes.

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Jeremiah 51:15, Jeremiah 51:15, Psalms 115:15, Psalms 115:16, Jeremiah 32:17

6And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon my servant: moreover also the beasts of the field I have given him to serve him.

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Jeremiah 28:14, Jeremiah 28:14, Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 25:9, Daniel 2:37

7And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son: till the time come for his land and himself: and many nations and great kings shall serve him.

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Jeremiah 52:31, Jeremiah 52:31, Revelation 13:5, Revelation 13:10, Zechariah 2:8

8But the nation and kingdom that will not serve Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and whosoever will not bend his neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon: I will visit upon that nation with the sword, and with famine, and with pestilence, saith the Lord: till I consume them by his hand.

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Jeremiah 38:17, Jeremiah 38:19, Jeremiah 24:10, Ezekiel 14:21, Ezekiel 17:19

9Therefore hearken not to your prophets, and diviners, and dreamers, and soothsayers, and sorcerers, that say to you: You shall not serve the king of Babylon.

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Jeremiah 14:14, Jeremiah 14:14, Jeremiah 29:8, Malachi 3:5, Isaiah 8:19

10For they prophesy lies to you: to remove you far from your country, and cast you out, and to make you perish.

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Jeremiah 32:31, Jeremiah 32:31, Ezekiel 14:9, Ezekiel 14:11, Lamentations 2:14

11But the nation that shall bend down their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and shall serve him: I will let them remain in their own land, saith the Lord: and they shall till it, and dwell in it.

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Jeremiah 21:9, Jeremiah 27:8, Jeremiah 27:2, Jeremiah 21:9, Jeremiah 27:8

12And I spoke to Sedecias the king of Juda according to all these words, saying: Bend down your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, and his people, and you shall live.

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Jeremiah 28:1, Jeremiah 38:17, Jeremiah 28:1, Jeremiah 38:17, Ezekiel 17:11

13Why will you die, thou and thy people by the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

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Ezekiel 18:31, Ezekiel 18:31, Jeremiah 27:8, Jeremiah 27:8, Proverbs 8:36

14Hearken not to the words of the prophets that say to you: You shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they tell you a lie.

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Jeremiah 14:14, Jeremiah 14:14, Jeremiah 23:21, 2 Corinthians 11:13, 2 Corinthians 11:15

15For I have not sent them, saith the Lord: and they prophesy in my name falsely: to drive you out, and that you may perish, both you, and the prophets that prophesy to you.

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Jeremiah 27:10, Jeremiah 27:10, Jeremiah 6:13, Jeremiah 6:15, 2 Chronicles 25:16

16I spoke also to the priests, and to this people, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Hearken not to the words of your prophets, that prophesy to you, saying: Behold the vessels of the Lord shall now in a short time be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

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Jeremiah 28:3, 2 Kings 24:13, Jeremiah 28:3, 2 Kings 24:13, Daniel 1:2

17Therefore hearken not to them, but serve the king of Babylon, that you may live. Why should this city be given up to desolation?

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Jeremiah 38:17, Jeremiah 27:11, Jeremiah 27:13, Jeremiah 38:23, Jeremiah 7:34

18But if they be prophets, and the word of the Lord be in them: let them interpose themselves before the Lord of hosts, that the vessels which were left in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Juda, and in Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon.

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1 Samuel 7:8, 1 Samuel 7:8, 1 Samuel 12:23, 1 Samuel 12:19, Jeremiah 18:20

19For thus saith the Lord of hosts to the pillars, and to the sea, and to the bases, and to the rest of the vessels that remain in this city:

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2 Kings 25:13, 2 Kings 25:13, Jeremiah 52:17, Jeremiah 52:23, Jeremiah 52:17

20Which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon did not take, when he carried away Jechonias the son of Joakim the king of Juda, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the great men of Juda and Jerusalem.

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Jeremiah 24:1, Jeremiah 24:1, 2 Chronicles 36:10, 2 Chronicles 36:10, 2 Chronicles 36:18

21For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to the vessels that are left in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Juda and Jerusalem:

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22They shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall be until the day of their visitation, saith the Lord: and I will cause them to be brought, and to be restored in this place.

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Jeremiah 29:10, Jeremiah 29:10, Jeremiah 32:5, Ezra 7:19, Jeremiah 32:5