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Warning to the Priests and People
Jeremiah 27:16-22
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Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says the LORD: Don’t listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD’s house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.
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Don’t listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?
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But if they be prophets, and if the LORD’s word be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of Hosts, that the vessels which are left in the LORD’s house, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don’t go to Babylon.
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For thus says the LORD of Hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city,
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which 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;
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yes, thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the LORD’s house, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem:
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They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit them, says the LORD; then I will bring them up, and restore them to this place.
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