Jeremiah 27:6 WEB

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 27:6

Jeremiah 27:6. I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar “God is the sole lord and proprietor of the world; and, by virtue of his absolute sovereignty and dominion, has a right to give the kingdoms of the earth to whomsoever he pleases, Daniel 4:17, and he exercises this authority by changing times and seasons, by removing kings, and setting up kings, Daniel 2:21. The king of Babylon, my servant One whom I have made use of as an instrument to execute my purposes in... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 27:1-22

Submit to Babylon (27:1-22)Early in the reign of Zedekiah, representatives from various neighbouring countries came to Jerusalem, in the hope of forming an alliance with Zedekiah against Babylon. Jeremiah delivered God’s message to them, illustrating the message by putting an ox’s yoke on his neck. The meaning was that the people were to submit to the yoke, or rule, of Babylon. This was God’s will, and there was no use rebelling against it. Babylon would not be overthrown till God’s time for it... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 27:6

Nebuchadnezzar. Some codices spell it "Nebuchadrezzar". My servant. Compare Jeremiah 25:9 . See Daniel 2:37 , Daniel 2:38 . read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 27:6

6. beasts of the field—not merely the horses to carry his Chaldean soldiers, and oxen to draw his provisions [GROTIUS]; not merely the deserts, mountains, and woods, the haunts of wild beasts, implying his unlimited extent of empire [ESTIUS]; but the beasts themselves by a mysterious instinct of nature. A reproof to men that they did not recognize God's will, which the very beasts acknowledged (compare :-). As the beasts are to submit to Christ, the Restorer of the dominion over nature, lost... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 27:1-11

Jeremiah’s warning to the foreign messengers 27:1-11 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 27:6-7

The Lord had determined to give their lands to Nebuchadnezzar, His servant (cf. Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 43:10), until the time came when He would turn over Nebuchadnezzar’s lands to another master (i.e., Cyrus the Persian). This, however, would not be until Nebuchadnezzar’s son and grandson had ruled, namely: Evilmerodach and Belshazzar (Jeremiah 52:31; Daniel 5:1; Daniel 5:30). read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 27:1-22

1-29. Judah is warned to submit to Babylon.1. For Jehoiakim read ’Zedekiah’: see Jeremiah 27:3, Jeremiah 27:12, Jeremiah 27:20. The former word may be a copyist’s accidental repetition of Jeremiah 26:1. 2. It is plain from Jeremiah 28:10 that Jeremiah actually wore a yoke in public. 3. Messengers] These ambassadors had come to Jerusalem probably with the view of forming an alliance against Babylon. This, however, was not accomplished, as Zedekiah was compelled to go to Babylon and swear... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 27:1-32

Jeremiah’s Sixteenth Prophecy (Reign of Zedekiah, Earlier Part). The Babylonian YokeBabylon had already shown its power. Jehoiakim and the chief of the people had been carried captive. Zedekiah was king only on sufferance. The neighbouring nations were under those circumstances willing to make common cause with the Jews against Nebuchadnezzar, many of whom, however, refused to realise the gravity of the danger. In these chs., therefore, Jeremiah sets himself to show that the power of Babylon... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 27:6

(6) Nebuchadnezzar . . . my servant.—See Note on Jeremiah 25:9 for the title thus given. The special stress laid on “the beasts of the field” is, perhaps, connected with the resistance of the nations to the levies made by the Babylonian officers upon their horses and cattle, or their claim to use the land they had subdued, after the manner which we see depicted on Assyrian sculptures, as a hunting-ground. Compare especially the account of Tiglath-Pileser I.’s hunting expedition in Records of... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 27:1-22

CHAPTER IXHANANIAHJeremiah 27:1-22, Jeremiah 28:1-17"Hear now, Hananiah; Jehovah hath not sent thee, but thou makest this people to trust in a lie."- Jeremiah 28:15THE most conspicuous point at issue between Jeremiah and his opponents was political rather than ecclesiastical. Jeremiah was anxious that Zedekiah should keep faith with Nebuchadnezzar, and not involve Judah in useless misery by another hopeless revolt. The prophets preached the popular doctrine of an imminent Divine intervention to... read more