Jeremiah 2:30

2:30 “It did no good for me to punish your people.

They did not respond to such correction.

You slaughtered your prophets

like a voracious lion.” ¹ 

Jeremiah 21:6

21:6 I will kill everything living in Jerusalem, ²  people and animals alike! They will die from terrible diseases.

Jeremiah 52:27

52:27 The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed ³  at Riblah in the territory of Hamath.

So Judah was taken into exile away from its land.

¹ tn Heb “Your sword devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.” However, the reference to the sword in this and many similar idioms is merely idiomatic for death by violent means.

² map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

³ tn Heb “struck them down and killed them.”