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Green's Literal Translation

Jeremiah 28:2

So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Yoke;   Thompson Chain Reference - Nebuchadnezzar;   The Topic Concordance - Prophecy and Prophets;   Sending and Those Sent;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Yoke;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - False Prophet;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Jeremiah;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Amen (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Yoke;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hananiah;   Jeremiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Hebrew Names Version
Thus speaks the LORD of Hosts, the God of Yisra'el, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Bavel.
King James Version
Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
English Standard Version
"Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
New American Standard Bible
"This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: 'I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
New Century Version
"The Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have broken the yoke the king of Babylon has put on Judah.
Amplified Bible
"Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
World English Bible
Thus speaks Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus speaketh the Lorde of hostes, the God of Israel, saying, I haue broken the yoke of the King of Babel.
Legacy Standard Bible
"Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Berean Standard Bible
"This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Contemporary English Version
he told me that the Lord had said: I am the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, and I will smash the yoke that Nebuchadnezzar put on the necks of the nations to make them his slaves.
Complete Jewish Bible
"This is what Adonai -Tzva'ot, the God of Isra'el, says: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Bavel.
Darby Translation
Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Easy-to-Read Version
"The Lord All-Powerful, the God of the people of Israel, says: ‘I will break the yoke that the king of Babylon has put on the people of Judah.
George Lamsa Translation
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Good News Translation
that the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, had said: "I have broken the power of the king of Babylonia.
Lexham English Bible
"Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel: I haue broke the yock of the kinge of Babilon,
American Standard Version
Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Bible in Basic English
These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: By me the yoke of the king of Babylon has been broken.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
King James Version (1611)
Thus speaketh the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, saying; I haue broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel: I haue broken the yoke of the kyng of Babylon,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will send forth against Babylon spoilers, and they shall spoil her, and shall ravage her land. Woe to Babylon round about her in the day of her affliction.
English Revised Version
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
`and seide, The Lord of oostis, God of Israel, seith these thingis, Y haue al to-broke the yok of the kyng of Babiloyne.
Update Bible Version
Thus speaks Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
New English Translation
"The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, ‘I will break the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon.
New King James Version
"Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: "I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
New Living Translation
"This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will remove the yoke of the king of Babylon from your necks.
New Life Bible
"This is what the Lord of All, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have broken the crossbar across the shoulders of the king of Babylon.
New Revised Standard
"Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus speaketh Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel saying, - I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Revised Standard Version
"Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Young's Literal Translation
`Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

Contextual Overview

1 And it happened in that year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, of Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of Jehovah, for the eyes of thepriests and all the people, saying, 2 So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. 3 Within two years I will again bring into this place all the vessels of the house of Jehovah which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and brought them to Babylon. 4 And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the exiles of Judah who went into Babylon, says Jehovah. For I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. 5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people who stood in the house of Jehovah, 6 even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen! May Jehovah do so ; may Jehovah confirm your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the house of Jehovah, and all the exiles, from Babylon into this place. 7 But hear now this word that I speak in your ears and in the ears of all the people: 8 The prophets who have been before me and before you from antiquity prophesied against many lands and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of plague. 9 As for the prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, the prophet shall be known as one whom Jehovah has truly sent him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I: Jeremiah 27:2-12, Ezekiel 13:5-16, Micah 3:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:5 - God 1 Samuel 18:10 - and he prophesied 1 Kings 22:11 - Thus saith 2 Chronicles 18:10 - Thus Proverbs 27:14 - He that Jeremiah 14:13 - behold Jeremiah 28:4 - I will break Jeremiah 28:10 - took Jeremiah 28:11 - Even Ezekiel 13:6 - saying Ezekiel 22:28 - Thus saith the Lord Micah 2:11 - a man

Cross-References

Genesis 24:10
And the slave took ten camels from his master's camels and left. And all his master's goods were in his hand. And he rose up and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
Genesis 24:29
And Rebekah had a brother, his name being Laban. And Laban ran out to the man, to the fountain.
Genesis 24:50
And Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing has come from Jehovah; we are not able to speak to you good or evil.
Genesis 25:20
And Isaac was a son of forty years when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Padan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to him for a wife.
Genesis 28:5
And Isaac sent away Jacob. And he went to Padan-aram, to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean, brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Genesis 28:15
And, behold, I will be with you and will guard you in every place in which you may go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not forsake you until I have surely done that which I have spoken to you.
Genesis 28:20
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God is with me and keeps me in this way which I am going, and gives to me bread to eat and clothing to wear,
Genesis 29:1
And Jacob lifted his feet and went to the land of the sons of the east.
Genesis 31:18
And he drove all the livestock, and he took all his goods which he had gotten, livestock of his property which he had gotten in Padan-aram, to come to his father Isaac, to the land of Canaan.
Genesis 32:10
I am not worthy of all the mercies and all the truth which You have done for Your servant, for I passed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two companies.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,.... Using the language of the true prophets, and describing the Lord just in the same manner they do, when coming from him, and speaking in his name: a bold and daring action, when he knew the Lord had not sent him, nor had said any such thing to him: he next relates with all assurance,

saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon; which he had put upon the neck of the king of Judah; signifying that he should be no more subject to him; that is, he had determined to do it, and would do it, in a very short time.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 28:2. Thus speaketh the Lord — What awful impudence! when he knew in his conscience that God had given him no such commission.


 
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