Jeremiah 28:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

King Jehoiachin and the other people who were taken from Judah to Babylonia will be allowed to come back here as well. All this will happen because I will smash the power of the king of Babylonia!

Cross References

Genesis 27:40

You will live by the power of your sword and be your brother's slave. But when you decide to be free, you will break loose.”

2 Kings 24:14

He also led away as prisoners the Jerusalem officials, the military leaders, and the skilled workers—ten thousand in all. Only the very poorest people were left in Judah.

Isaiah 9:4

You have broken the power of those who abused and enslaved your people. You have rescued them just as you saved your people from Midian.

Jeremiah 13:19

The cities in the Southern Desert are surrounded; no one can get in or out. Everyone in Judah will be taken away.

Jeremiah 2:20

Long ago you left me and broke all ties between us, refusing to be my servant. Now you worship other gods by having sex on hilltops or in the shade of large trees.

Jeremiah 22:10

King Josiah is dead, so don't cry for him. Instead, cry for his son King Jehoahaz, dragged off to another country, never to return.

Jeremiah 22:24

King Jehoiachin, son of Jehoiakim, even if you were the ring I wear as the sign of my royal power, I would still pull you from my finger.

Jeremiah 24:1

The LORD spoke to me in a vision after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia had come to Judah and taken King Jehoiachin, his officials, and all the skilled workers back to Babylonia. In this vision I saw two baskets of figs in front of the LORD's temple.

Jeremiah 24:5

People of Judah, the good figs stand for those of you I sent away as exiles to Babylonia,

Jeremiah 27:8

This yoke stands for the power of King Nebuchadnezzar, and I will destroy any nation that refuses to obey him. Nebuchadnezzar will attack, and many will die in battle or from hunger and disease.

Jeremiah 28:10

Hananiah grabbed the wooden yoke from my neck and smashed it.

Jeremiah 28:2

he told me that the LORD had said: I am the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, and I will smash the yoke that Nebuchadnezzar put on the necks of the nations to make them his slaves.

Jeremiah 29:1

I had been left in Jerusalem when King Nebuchadnezzar took many of the people of Jerusalem and Judah to Babylonia as prisoners, including King Jehoiachin, his mother, his officials, and the metal workers and others in Jerusalem who were skilled in making things. So I wrote a letter to the prophets, the priests, the leaders, and the rest of our people in Babylonia.

Jeremiah 30:8

Now you are slaves of other nations, but I will break the chains and smash the yokes that keep you in slavery.

Leviticus 26:13

I am the LORD your God, and I rescued you from Egypt, so that you would never again be slaves. I have set you free; now walk with your heads held high.

Nahum 1:13

I'll snap your chains and set you free from the Assyrians.”