Jeremiah 24:5

24:5 “I, the Lord, the God of Israel, say: ‘The exiles whom I sent away from here to the land of Babylon ¹  are like those good figs. I consider them to be good.

Jeremiah 25:12

25:12 “‘But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation ²  for their sins. I will make the land of Babylon ³  an everlasting ruin. ⁴  I, the Lord, affirm it! ⁵ 

Jeremiah 37:10

37:10 For even if you were to defeat all the Babylonian forces ⁶  fighting against you so badly that only wounded men were left lying in their tents, they would get up and burn this city down.”’” ⁷ 

Jeremiah 39:5

39:5 But the Babylonian ⁸  army chased after them. They caught up with Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho ⁹  and captured him. ¹⁰  They took him to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon at Riblah ¹¹  in the territory of Hamath and Nebuchadnezzar passed sentence on him there.

Jeremiah 50:45

50:45 So listen to what I, the Lord, have planned against Babylon,

what I intend to do to the people who inhabit the land of Babylonia. ¹² 

Their little ones will be dragged off.

I will completely destroy their land because of what they have done.

Jeremiah 52:17

52:17 The Babylonians broke the two bronze pillars in the temple of the Lord, as well as the movable stands and the large bronze basin called the “The Sea.” ¹³  They took all the bronze to Babylon.

[24:5]  ¹ tn Heb “the land of the Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4.

[25:12]  ² tn Heb “that nation.”

[25:12]  ³ tn Heb “the land of the Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for the use of the term “Chaldeans.”

[25:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “I will visit upon the king of Babylon and upon that nation, oracle of the Lord, their iniquity even upon the land of the Chaldeans and I will make it everlasting ruins.” The sentence has been restructured to avoid ambiguity and to conform the style more to contemporary English.

[25:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[37:10]  ³ tn Heb “all the army of the Chaldeans.” For the rendering “Babylonian” in place of Chaldean see the study note on 21:4.

[37:10]  ⁴ tn The length and complexity of this English sentence violates the more simple style that has been used to conform such sentences to contemporary English style. However, there does not seem to be any alternative that would enable a simpler style and still retain the causal and conditional connections that give this sentence the rhetorical force that it has in the original. The condition is, of course, purely hypothetical and the consequence a poetic exaggeration. The intent is to assure Zedekiah that there is absolutely no hope of the city being spared.

[39:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “The Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for explanation.

[39:5]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[39:5]  ⁶ sn 2 Kgs 25:5 and Jer 52:8 mention that the soldiers all scattered from him. That is why the text focuses on Zedekiah here.

[39:5]  ⁷ sn Riblah was a strategic town on the Orontes River in Syria. It was at a crossing of the major roads between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Pharaoh Necho had earlier received Jehoahaz there and put him in chains (2 Kgs 23:33) prior to taking him captive to Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar had set up his base camp for conducting his campaigns against the Palestinian states there and was now sitting in judgment on prisoners brought to him.

[50:45]  ⁵ tn The words “of Babylonia” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They have been supplied in the translation to clarify the referent.

[52:17]  ⁶ sn For discussion of the items listed here, see the study notes at Jer 27:19.