Jeremiah 27:16

27:16 I also told the priests and all the people, “The Lord says, ‘Do not listen to what your prophets are saying. They are prophesying to you that ¹  the valuable articles taken from the Lord’s temple will be brought back from Babylon very soon. ²  But they are prophesying a lie to you.

Jeremiah 52:15

52:15 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, took into exile some of the poor, ³  the rest of the people who remained in the city, those who had deserted to him, and the rest of the craftsmen.

Jeremiah 52:31

Jehoiachin in Exile

52:31 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth ⁴  day of the twelfth month, ⁵  Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁶  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.

[27:16]  ¹ tn Heb “don’t listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you….” The sentence has been broken up for the sake of English style and one level of embedded quotes has been eliminated to ease complexity.

[27:16]  ² sn This refers to the valuable articles of the temple treasury which were carried off by Nebuchadnezzar four years earlier when he carried off Jeconiah, his family, some of his nobles, and some of the cream of Judean society (2 Kgs 24:10-16, especially v. 13 and see also vv. 19-20 in the verses following).

[52:15]  ³ tn Heb “poor of the people.”

[52:31]  ⁵ sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”

[52:31]  ⁶ sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[52:31]  ⁷ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”