Jeremiah 27:16

Contemporary English Version 1995

When I finished talking to the king, I told the priests and everyone else that the Lord had said: Don't listen to the prophets when they say that very soon the Babylonians will return the things they took from my temple. Those prophets are lying!

Cross References

Jeremiah 28:3

And within two years, I will bring back to Jerusalem everything that he took from my temple and carried off to Babylonia.

2 Kings 24:13

The Lord had warned that someday the treasures would be taken from the royal palace and from the temple, including the gold objects that Solomon had made for the temple. And that's exactly what Nebuchadnezzar ordered his soldiers to do.

Daniel 1:2

The Lord let Nebuchadnezzar capture Jehoiakim and take away some of the things used in God's temple. And when the king returned to Babylonia, he put these things in the temple of his own god.

Jeremiah 27:10

If you listen to such lies, I will have you dragged far from your country and killed.

Jeremiah 27:14

Your prophets have told you that you don't need to obey Nebuchadnezzar, but don't listen to their lies.

Isaiah 9:15

Their rulers and leaders were the head, and the lying prophets were the tail.