Jeremiah 25:1-3
1599 Geneva Bible
25 1 He prophesieth that they shall be in captivity seventy years. 12 And that after the seventy years the Babylonians should be destroyed. 15 The destruction of all nations is prophesied.
1 The word that came to Jeremiah, concerning all the people of Judah, in the [a]fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was in the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel:
2 The which Jeremiah the Prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto [b]this day (that is the three and twentieth year) the word of the Lord hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you [c]rising early and speaking, but ye would not hear.
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- Jeremiah 25:1 That is, in the third year accomplished and in the beginning of the fourth: for though Nebuchadnezzar began to reign in the end of the third year of Jehoiakim’s reign, yet that year is not here counted, because it was almost expired, Dan. 1:1.
- Jeremiah 25:3 Which was the fifth year and the ninth month of Jehoiakim’s reign.
- Jeremiah 25:3 That is, I have spared no diligence or labor, Jer. 7:13.
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