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29:15 Because you have said, “The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,” 16 Thus says the LORD concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who live in this city, your kinsfolk who did not go out with you into exile: 17 Thus says the LORD of hosts, “I am going to let loose on them sword, famine, and pestilence, and I will make them like rotten figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten. 18 I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of cursing, and horror, and hissing, and a derision among all the nations where I have driven them, 19 because they did not heed my words, says the LORD, when I persistently sent to you my servants the prophets, but they would not listen, says the LORD. 20 But now, all you exiles whom I sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon, hear the word of the LORD.” 21 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying a lie to you in my name: I am going to deliver them into the hand of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, and he shall kill them before your eyes. The addition of 29:16-20 (marked in bold) seems to play off the reference in 29:15 (“Because you have said, “The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon”), filling in the details of the prophetic oracles in Babylon that run along the lines of Jeremiah’s own imagery. The use of judgment imagery from Lev 26 and Deut 29 is especially notable along side the persistent witness of Yahweh’s prophets in 29:19, used elsewhere in Jeremiah (see 7:13; 25:3-4; 26:5; 44:4-5; cf. 2 Chron 36:15-16). Thus, the patient and repetitious prophets of Yahweh accent his will in the Torah. Copyright © 2010 ScriptureWorkshop.com |