Jeremiah 44:16

44:16 “We will not listen to what you claim the Lord has spoken to us! ¹ 

Jeremiah 28:16

28:16 So the Lord says, ‘I will most assuredly remove ²  you from the face of the earth. You will die this very year because you have counseled rebellion against the Lord.’” ³ 

Jeremiah 32:24

32:24 Even now siege ramps have been built up around the city ⁴  in order to capture it. War, ⁵  starvation, and disease are sure to make the city fall into the hands of the Babylonians ⁶  who are attacking it. ⁷  Lord, ⁸  you threatened that this would happen. Now you can see that it is already taking place. ⁹ 

Jeremiah 38:25

38:25 The officials may hear that I have talked with you. They may come to you and say, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you. ¹⁰  Do not hide anything from us. If you do, we will kill you.’ ¹¹ 

Jeremiah 51:62

51:62 Then say, ‘O Lord, you have announced that you will destroy this place so that no people or animals live in it any longer. Certainly it will lie desolate forever!’

¹ tn Heb “the word [or message] you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord.” For an explanation of the rendering of “in the name of the Lord” see the study notes on 10:25 and 23:27.

² 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.

³ 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.

³ tn Heb “Siege ramps have come up to the city to capture it.”

⁴ tn Heb “sword.”

⁵ tn Heb “The Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for further explanation.

⁶ tn Heb “And the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it because of the sword, starvation, and disease.” The verb “has been given” is one of those perfects that view the action as good as done (the perfect of certainty or prophetic perfect).

⁷ tn The word “Lord” is not in the text but is supplied in the translation as a reminder that it is he who is being addressed.

⁸ tn Heb “And what you said has happened and behold you see it.”

⁴ tn The phrase “and what the king said to you” is actually at the end of the verse, but most commentators see it as also under the governance of “tell us” and many commentaries and English versions move the clause forward for the sake of English style as has been done here.

⁵ tn Or “lest we kill you”; Heb “and we will not kill you,” which as stated in the translator’s note on 37:20 introduces a negative purpose (or result) clause. See 37:20, 38:24 for parallel usage.