Jeremiah 27:17 “Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should…”

Jeremiah 27:17

Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?

World English Bible

Don’t listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation?

American Standard Version

Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a desolation?

Geneva Bible 1599

Heare them not, but serue the King of Babel, that ye may liue: wherefore shoulde this citie be desolate?

Darby Translation

Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a waste?

Young's Literal Translation

Ye do not hearken unto them, serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why is this city a waste?

Bible in Basic English

Give no attention to them; become servants of the king of Babylon and keep yourselves from death: why let this town become a waste?

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Cross references

“serve”

Jeremiah 27:11 Jeremiah 27:12

Jeremiah 27:11 · BSB

But the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave in its own land, to cultivate it and reside in it, declares the LORD.”

Jeremiah 27:12 · BSB

And to Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke the same message: “Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and live!

“wherefore”

Jeremiah 38:17 Jeremiah 38:23 Jeremiah 27:13

Jeremiah 38:17 · BSB

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you indeed surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned down, and yo…

Jeremiah 38:23 · BSB

All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. And you yourself will not escape their grasp, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”

Jeremiah 27:13 · BSB

Why should you and your people die by sword and famine and plague, as the LORD has decreed against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?

Also

Jeremiah 7:34

Jeremiah 7:34 · BSB

I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16Then I said to the priests and to all this people, “This is what the LORD says: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Look, very soon now the articles from the house of the LORD will be brought back from Babylon.’ They are prophesying to you a lie.

18If they are indeed prophets and the word of the LORD is with them, let them now plead with the LORD of Hosts that the articles remaining in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, not be taken to Babylon.

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