12 © ] ſpake alſo to Zedekiah King of Judah ac- cording, toall theſe words, ſaying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the King of Babylon, and ſerve 511M, and his people, and hve v.
x Some think this was at another time, bur 1t 1s moſt probable 1: was the fame time,
13 Why will yedlie, thou, and thy people, by the word, by the famine, and by the peſtilence, as the { ORD) hath ſpoken againſt the nation that will not jerve the King of Babylon y.
tehy prophelic Þ a lye in my name 4, that I mig
C : . ie : 1 6 :}t drive you out, and that ye might periſhb, ye, and; y the Prophets that propheſte unto you c.
4 They make uſe of my Name, and prerend to ſay what they ay by Commiſſion from me, ſaith the Lord, but there is no ſuch ring, [ never gaverhem authority to ſpeak any ſach things. 6 And though poſlibly rey do nor defign your ruine by theſe praRices, (for none can be thought to defign their own Ruine) yet thar vill Q5e the end of 1t 3 for by this means your hearts are hardned againſt the Revelarins of oy Will, by which [ ſhall be provoked ro give you up to Ruine 3 nor ſhall rhey eſcape, for they ſhali be ruined with you.
16 AllolI ſpake to the prieſts, and to all this peo- ple, ſaying, Thus ſaith the LORD, Hearken not to the words of your Prophets thar propheſie unto you,
ſaying, Behold the * vetſels of the LORD's houſe * Chap. ſhall now ſhortly be brought again from Babylon ; #8: 3
tor they propheſie a lye unto you 4.
, 4 The Propher, Tike God's faithful Servant, ſpared none, bur faithfully give warning to all ſorts, ro take heed of the falle Pro- p:1ers, that undertook to forerel that the Vellcls of rhe Temple carried away 1n the time of Jehoiaþim, and his Son Jebriabin or Jecoman, (of which we read, 2 Chron. 35.7, 10.) thould be brought back again ro Hieriſzlem, 1n a ſhort time,
17 Hearken not unto them ; ſerve the King of Ba- bylon and live : wherefore ſhould this city be laid walte c ?
e Belteve them nor, but ſarisfie your ſelves as to God's P;oyi.. dence with reſpeR to you, and be conrent to be ſubje& to rhe King of Babylon, fo may you have your lives for a prey; though you be ſtrairned as to your Accommodations and plenreous and ſplen- did way of Life, If you do nor, your City will certainly be laid wafte, and why ſhould you pull ſuch a Judgment upon your own Heads ?
18 But if they 6c prophets, and if the word of the LORD bewath them #; let them now make interceſ- !0n to the LORD of hoſts, that the veſſels which are left in the honſe of the LORD, and zz the houſe of the king of Judah, and ar Jeruſalem go not to Ba by- lon 2. |
f If they be true Prophets, and: have any Communion wit! God, inſtead of forere!ling the bringing back of che Veſſels carried away. g& Let them apply themſelves ro hinder the carrying away of what Veſſels yer remain, and that either inthe Houle of the Lord, or the King's Houſe, or in Hierxſalem, which js to be done no other way, than by pleading with God ro turn away his Wrath, and nor to bring thoſe ſore Judgments which he is molt certainly bringing upon you, t
i9 4 For thus ſaith the Lord of hoſts concern- ing the pillars, and concerniug the fea, and conceru- ing the baſes, and conceraing the retidue of the veſ- ſels that remain in this city .
h Theſe were all parts of the Temple or Veilels uſed in ir. 7i.te 1 Kings 7.
20 Which Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon took not, when he carried away * captive Jeconzh the +
Babylon, and all the Nobles of Judah and Jeruſa- lem z.
z Concerning the perſons and things which the King of Bady/o;; then carried away. See 2 Kings 24. 13, 14, 15.
21 Yea, thus ſaith the LORD of hoſts, the God of Iſrael, concerning the veſſels that remain in the houſe of the LORD, and in the houſe of the King of Judah,” and of Jeruſalem &,
k The Prophet enlargech his Prophetical Threatning,and makes
is extend to all other Veſſels of price, 1n the Houſes of the King,
the Nobles, or more wealthy Citizens, 32 They ſhall be carried to Babylon, and there ſhall they be /until the day that * I viſit them, ſaith +
y That is, why wilt thou wilfully not only ruine thy ſelf, bur chem to this place 7.
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ſon of Jehojakim King of Judah, from Jeruſalem to 4, ;,
the LORD », then will I bring them up, and reſtore zs, ,,, Chap, 2G
thy innocent People by the Sword, the Famine. and the Pefti-} ; ce? the word 1s ſpoken by the Lord, that all Nations who w1l} nor willingly yield ro the King of Baylor, ſhall be thus de. itoyed, 1.4 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the Plonhcts that ſpear nnto you, ſaying, Ye ſhall not
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I See the faltilling of this Prophecy, = Kings 25. 13, 14, 1.5. 10.
2 Chron. 36. 18, and that they abode in Babylyz rill rhe end of the Captivity, appeareth from Dan. 5. 2, where we read of Belſhaz- 2847's ſending for them ro drink Wine in, at his faral Feaſt. Thar is, until rhe expirarion of the rime of the Fewiſh Captivity? which was 70 Years. 7 The fulfilling of that part of the Prophecy, we have Ezra 1. 7,8, 9 in theſe words, 4/ſo Cyrzs the King brought
jorth the Veſſels of ee houſe of the Lora, , which Nebduchadnerg 2 i041 brought jorth out of Hieruſalim
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forth by th? hand of Mithrea4tn the Treaſurer, and nnd | mo{t ordinarily uſed 65th in this ſingle zorm, and doubled by our them unto Shen04334% the Prince of Fudah., And t1S Us the Saviour in the Goſpel; Oc, a3 a Particle of wihics and prajing, ' nuber of them, thirty COaYgers of god, a thouſand CO AYGETS 6/|upon winch accounr it 1s uſed jn rhe L1ri's-Prayer, though there ic ' fituer, nine and twenty bnives, thirty baſons of Gold, ſilver Baſons lignifierh more than here, vi7, 4 F4ith or Brit thac God will of a ſecond fort jour hundred and ten, and other Veſſels 4 t904-\ grant the Petitions, as well as a 2/rr; rhac he would grant them ; (ind, All the weſſils of Gold and of fuver were five thouſand an4\ hereir ſignificth no more chan c:clarer, and js ex70n:1ded by the ro Lundred, All theſe did Shezbaxgar bring up with them oft nexr WOrgs : Nor indeed doth ir, or ca9 1: ! pay .
the captivity, that were brought up from Baby!o/%#0 Hiernſalcm.j an abſolute hearty defire, for J:irenith cold
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