Jeremiah 20:6
20:6 You, Pashhur, and all your household 1 will go into exile in Babylon. You will die there and you will be buried there. The same thing will happen to all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies.’” 2
Jeremiah 25:1
Seventy Years of Servitude for Failure to Give Heed
25:1 In the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king of Judah, the Lord spoke to Jeremiah 3 concerning all the people of Judah. (That was the same as the first year that Nebuchadnezzar was king of Babylon.) 4
Jeremiah 27:12
27:12 I told King Zedekiah of Judah the same thing. I said, 5 “Submit 6 to the yoke of servitude to 7 the king of Babylon. Be subject to him and his people. Then you will continue to live.
Jeremiah 51:64
51:64 Then say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the judgments 8 I am ready to bring upon her; they will grow faint.’” The prophecies of Jeremiah end here. 9
1 tn Heb “all who live in your house.” This included his family and his servants.
2 sn As a member of the priesthood and the protector of order in the temple, Pashhur was undoubtedly one of those who promulgated the deceptive belief that the Lord’s presence in the temple was a guarantee of Judah’s safety (cf. 7:4, 8). Judging from the fact that two other men held the same office after the leading men in the city were carried into exile in 597 b.c. (see Jer 29:25-26 and compare 29:1-2 for the date and 2 Kgs 24:12-16 for the facts), this prophecy was probably fulfilled in 597. For a similar kind of oracle of judgment see Amos 7:10-17.
3 tn Heb “The word was to Jeremiah.” It is implicit from the context that it was the Lord’s word. The verbal expression is more in keeping with contemporary English style.
4 sn The year referred to would be 605 b.c. Jehoiakim had been placed on the throne of Judah as a puppet king by Pharaoh Necho after the defeat of Josiah at Megiddo in 609 b.c. (2 Kgs 23:34-35). According to Jer 46:2 Nebuchadnezzar defeated Necho at Carchemish in that same year. After defeating Necho, Nebuchadnezzar had hurried back to Babylon where he was made king. After being made king he then returned to Judah and attacked Jerusalem (Dan 1:1. The date given there is the third year of Jehoiakim but scholars are generally agreed that the dating there is based on a different system than the one here. It did not count the part of the year before New Year’s day as an official part of the king’s official rule. Hence, the third year there is the fourth year here.) The identity of the foe from the north referred to in general terms (4:6; 6:1; 15:12) now becomes clear.
5 tn Heb “I spoke to Zedekiah…according to all these words, saying.”
6 sn The verbs in this verse are all plural. They are addressed to Zedekiah and his royal advisers (compare 22:2).
7 tn Heb “put their necks in the yoke of.” See the study note on v. 2 for the figure.
8 tn Or “disaster”; or “calamity.”
9 sn The final chapter of the book of Jeremiah does not mention Jeremiah or record any of his prophecies.