Jeremiah 52:27
Context52:27 The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed 1 at Riblah in the territory of Hamath.
So Judah was taken into exile away from its land.
Jeremiah 27:11
Context27:11 Things will go better for the nation that submits to the yoke of servitude to 2 the king of Babylon and is subject to him. I will leave that nation 3 in its native land. Its people can continue to farm it and live in it. I, the Lord, affirm it!”’” 4


[52:27] 1 tn Heb “struck them down and killed them.”
[27:11] 2 tn Heb “put their necks in the yoke of.” See the study note on v. 2 for the figure.
[27:11] 3 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…”