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17 Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live! Why should this city become a ruin? 18 But if they are [true] prophets, and if the word of the Lord is [really spoken] by them, let them now entreat the Lord of hosts that the articles which are [still] left in the house of the Lord, in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon. 19 For thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the [bronze] [a]pillars, the [bronze] [b]Sea, the [bronze] bases [of the ten basins in Solomon’s temple used for washing sacrificial animals], and the rest of the articles that are left in this city (Jerusalem),(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 27:19 Each pillar stood about twenty-seven feet high.
  2. Jeremiah 27:19 This was the basin at which the priests washed their hands and feet before ministering at the altar.

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