The Yoke of Nebuchadnezzar

27 In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah^[a] the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord.

Hananiah the False Prophet

28 In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of ^(A)Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, Hananiah the son of ^(B)Azzur, the prophet from ^(C)Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord, in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying,

^19 (A)For thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the pillars, the sea, the stands, and the rest of the vessels that are left in this city, ²⁰ which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take away, ^(B)when he took into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem—

¹² To ^(A)Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke in like manner: ^(B)“Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and ^(C)serve him and his people and live.

³ Send word^[a] to the king of ^(A)Edom, the king of ^(B)Moab, the king of the sons of ^(C)Ammon, the king of ^(D)Tyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

Jeremiah Threatened with Death

26 ^(A)In the beginning of the reign of ^(B)Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the Lord:

^11 (A)Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.