Jeremiah 24:10

24:10 I will bring war, starvation, and disease ¹  on them until they are completely destroyed from the land I gave them and their ancestors.’” ² 

Jeremiah 27:10-11

27:10 Do not listen to them, ³  because their prophecies are lies. ⁴  Listening to them will only cause you ⁵  to be taken far away from your native land. I will drive you out of your country and you will die in exile. ⁶  27:11 Things will go better for the nation that submits to the yoke of servitude to ⁷  the king of Babylon and is subject to him. I will leave that nation ⁸  in its native land. Its people can continue to farm it and live in it. I, the Lord, affirm it!”’” ⁹ 

Jeremiah 28:16

28:16 So the Lord says, ‘I will most assuredly remove ¹⁰  you from the face of the earth. You will die this very year because you have counseled rebellion against the Lord.’” ¹¹ 

¹ sn See Jer 14:12 and the study note there.

² tn Heb “fathers.”

³ tn The words “Don’t listen to them” have been repeated from v. 9a to pick up the causal connection between v. 9a and v. 10 that is formally introduced by a causal particle in v. 10 in the original text.

⁴ tn Heb “they are prophesying a lie.”

⁵ tn Heb “lies will result in your being taken far…” (לְמַעַן [lÿma’an] + infinitive). This is a rather clear case of the particle לְמַעַן introducing result (contra BDB 775 s.v. מַעַן note 1. There is no irony in this statement; it is a bold prediction).

⁶ tn The words “out of your country” are not in the text but are implicit in the meaning of the verb. The words “in exile” are also not in the text but are implicit in the context. These words have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “put their necks in the yoke of.” See the study note on v. 2 for the figure.

⁶ tn The words “Things will go better for” are not in the text. They are supplied contextually as a means of breaking up the awkward syntax of the original which reads “The nation which brings its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and subjects itself to him, I will leave it…”

⁷ tn Heb “oracle of the Lord.”

⁷ sn There is a play on words here in Hebrew between “did not send you” and “will…remove you.” The two verbs are from the same root word in Hebrew. The first is the simple active and the second is the intensive.

⁸ sn In giving people false assurances of restoration when the Lord had already told them to submit to Babylon, Hananiah was really counseling rebellion against the Lord. What Hananiah had done was contrary to the law of Deut 13:6 and was punishable by death.