Jeremiah 25:1-8

Seventy Years of Captivity

1 ¹The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),

2 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem:

3 "For twenty-three years, ²from the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken ³persistently to you, ⁴but you have not listened.

4 ⁵You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the LORD ⁶ persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets,

5 saying, ⁷'Turn now, every one of you, ⁸from his evil way and evil deeds, and ⁹dwell upon the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever.

6 ¹⁰Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, ¹¹or provoke me to anger ¹²with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.'

7 ¹³Yet you have not listened to me, declares the LORD, ¹⁴that you might provoke me to anger ¹⁵with the work of your hands to your own harm.

8 "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words,

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Jeremiah 25:1-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 25

This chapter contains a prophecy of the destruction of Judea by the king of Babylon; and also of Babylon itself, after the Jews' captivity of seventy years; and likewise of all the nations round about. The date of this prophecy is in Jer 25:1; when the prophet puts the Jews in mind of the prophecies that had been delivered unto them by himself and others, for some years past, without effect, Jer 25:2-7; wherefore they are threatened with the king of Babylon, that he should come against them, and strip them of all their desirable things; make their land desolate, and them captives for seventy years, Jer 25:8-11; at the expiration of which he in his turn shall be punished, and the land of Chaldea laid waste, and become subject to other nations and kings, Jer 25:12-14; and by a cup of wine given to all the nations round about, is signified the utter ruin of them, and who are particularly mentioned by name, Jer 25:15-26; which is confirmed by beginning with the city of Jerusalem, and the destruction of that, Jer 25:27-29; wherefore the prophet is bid to prophesy against them, and to declare the Lord's controversy with them, and that there should be a slaughter of them from one end of the earth to the other, Jer 25:30-33; upon which the shepherds, kings, and rulers of them, are called to lamentation and howling, Jer 25:34-38.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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Cross References 15

1. Jeremiah 1:3; Jeremiah 36:1; [2 Kings 24:1]
2. Jeremiah 1:2
3. Jeremiah 7:13; Jeremiah 11:7, 8; Jeremiah 26:5; Jeremiah 29:19; Jeremiah 32:33; Jeremiah 35:14; 2 Chronicles 36:15
4. See Jeremiah 7:13
5. [See ver. 3 above]
6. [See ver. 3 above]
7. See Jeremiah 18:11
8. Jeremiah 23:22
9. Jeremiah 7:7
10. See Jeremiah 7:6
11. [Jeremiah 32:30]
12. [Jeremiah 32:30]
13. [See ver. 6 above]
14. [See ver. 6 above]
15. [See ver. 6 above]

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