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Jeremiah 27:4

And give them orders to say to their masters, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Say to your masters,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ammonites;   Babylon;   Blessing;   Edom;   Edomites;   Instruction;   Sidon;   Tyre;   Thompson Chain Reference - Nebuchadnezzar;   The Topic Concordance - Creation;   Earth;   Government;   Man;   Power;   Punishment;   Servants;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Babylon;   Edomites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Phoenicia;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Prophet, Prophetess, Prophecy;   Providence of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Prophecy;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Herodians;   Moab;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gestures;   Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Jeremiah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - God;   Moab, Moabites ;   Tyre, Tyrus;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Ammonites;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Command them to go to their masters, saying, ‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Tell this to your masters:
Hebrew Names Version
and give them a charge to their masters, saying, Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Yisra'el, Thus shall you tell your masters:
King James Version
And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;
English Standard Version
Give them this charge for their masters: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: This is what you shall say to your masters:
New American Standard Bible
"Order them to go to their masters, saying, 'This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: "This is what you shall say to your masters:
New Century Version
Tell them to give this message to their masters: ‘The Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says: "Tell your masters:
Amplified Bible
"Command them to go to their masters, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, you shall say this to your masters:
World English Bible
and give them a charge to their masters, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Thus shall you tell your masters:
Geneva Bible (1587)
And commande them to saye vnto their masters, Thus saith the Lord of hostes the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say vnto your masters,
Legacy Standard Bible
And you shall command them to go to their masters, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, thus you shall say to your masters,
Berean Standard Bible
Give them a message for their masters declaring that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says that you are to tell them:
Contemporary English Version
So have them tell their kings that I have said: I am the All-Powerful Lord God of Israel,
Complete Jewish Bible
Give them this message for their masters by telling their envoys that Adonai -Tzva'ot, the God of Isra'el, says for them to tell their masters:
Darby Translation
And give them a charge unto their masters, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Thus shall ye say unto your masters:
Easy-to-Read Version
Tell them to give the message to their masters. Tell them that this is what the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says: ‘Tell your masters that
George Lamsa Translation
And command them to say to their masters, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Thus shall you say to your masters:
Good News Translation
The Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, told me to command them to tell their kings that the Lord had said:
Lexham English Bible
And you must command them for their masters, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, this you shall say to your masters:
Literal Translation
And command them to go to their masters, saying, So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: So you shall say to your masters,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and byd them saye vnto their masters: Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel, speake thus vnto yor masters:
American Standard Version
and give them a charge unto their masters, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say unto your masters:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and give them a charge unto their masters, saying: Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Thus shall ye say unto your masters:
King James Version (1611)
And command them to say vnto their masters, Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say vnto your masters:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And bid them say vnto their maisters, Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes, the God of Israel, speake thus vnto your maisters:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
In those days, and at that time, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Juda together; they shall proceed, weeping as they go, seeking the Lord their God.
English Revised Version
and give them a charge unto their masters; saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Thus shall ye say unto your masters;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou schalt comaunde to hem, that thei speke to her lordis, The Lord of oostis, God of Israel, seith these thingis, Ye schulen seie these thingis to youre lordis,
Update Bible Version
and give them a charge to their masters, saying, Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, Thus you shall say to your masters:
Webster's Bible Translation
And command them to say to their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to your masters;
New English Translation
Charge them to give their masters a message from me. Tell them, ‘The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says to give your masters this message.
New King James Version
And command them to say to their masters, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel--thus you shall say to your masters:
New Living Translation
Give them this message for their masters: ‘This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says:
New Life Bible
Tell them to go to their leaders, saying, ‘This is what the Lord of All, the God of Israel, says, and this is what you should say to your leaders:
New Revised Standard
Give them this charge for their masters: Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: This is what you shall say to your masters:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And thou shall give them charge unto their lords saying, - Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts God of Israel, Thus shall ye say unto your lords: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
And 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:
Revised Standard Version
Give them this charge for their masters: 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: This is what you shall say to your masters:
Young's Literal Translation
And thou hast commanded them for their lords, saying, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Command them to go to their masters, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, thus you shall say to your masters,

Contextual Overview

1 When Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, first became king this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 2 This is what the Lord has said to me: Make for yourself bands and yokes and put them on your neck; 3 And 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 Zidon, by their servants who come to Jerusalem, to Zedekiah, king of Judah; 4 And give them orders to say to their masters, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Say to your masters, 5 I have made the earth, and man and beast on the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I will give it to anyone at my pleasure. 6 And now I have given all these lands into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant; and I have given the beasts of the field to him for his use. 7 And all the nations will be servants to him and to his son and to his son's son, till the time comes for his land to be overcome: and then a number of nations and great kings will take it for their use. 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. 9 And you are not to give attention to your prophets or your readers of signs or your dreamers or those who see into the future or those who make use of secret arts, who say to you, You will not become servants of the king of Babylon: 10 For they say false words to you, so that you may be sent away far from your land, and so that you may be forced out by me and come to destruction.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to say unto their masters, Thus: or, concerning their masters, saying

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

Reciprocal: Psalms 75:7 - he putteth Jeremiah 28:14 - I have put

Cross-References

Genesis 14:19
And blessing him, said, May the blessing of the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth, be on Abram:
Genesis 24:60
And they gave Rebekah their blessing, saying, O sister, may you be the mother of thousands and ten thousands; and may your seed overcome all those who make war against them.
Genesis 27:1
Now when Isaac was old and his eyes had become clouded so that he was not able to see, he sent for Esau, his first son, and said to him, My son: and he said, Here am I.
Genesis 27:7
Go and get some roe's meat and make me a good meal, so that I may be full, and give you my blessing before the Lord before my death.
Genesis 27:15
And Rebekah took the fair robes of her oldest son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son:
Genesis 27:20
And Isaac said, How is it that you have got it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord your God made it come my way.
Genesis 27:22
And Jacob went near his father Isaac: and he put his hands on him; and he said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Genesis 27:23
And he did not make out who he was, because his hands were covered with hair like his brother Esau's hands: so he gave him a blessing.
Genesis 27:25
And he said, Put it before me and I will take of my son's meat, so that I may give you a blessing. And he put it before him and he took it; and he gave him wine, and he had a drink.
Genesis 27:27
And he came near and gave him a kiss; and smelling the smell of his clothing, he gave him a blessing, and said, See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field on which the blessing of the Lord has come:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And command them to say unto their masters,.... The prophet is sent with authority, and ordered to speak in a very high strain, having his orders from the King of kings and Lord of lords; a greater master than those messengers had; and to enjoin them to tell their several masters in his master's name; as follows:

thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; who, though in a peculiar manner the God of Israel, yet was Lord of the whole world, and had all the armies of heaven and earth at his command, to enforce his power and authority; wherefore what he says ought to be attended to:

thus shall ye say to your masters; deliver to them the following words of the great Jehovah.


 
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