Jeremiah 3:18
3:18 At that time 1 the nation of Judah and the nation of Israel will be reunited. 2 Together they will come back from a land in the north to the land that I gave to your ancestors as a permanent possession. ” 3
Jeremiah 7:14
7:14 So I will destroy this temple which I have claimed as my own, 4 this temple that you are trusting to protect you. I will destroy this place that I gave to you and your ancestors, 5 just like I destroyed Shiloh. 6
Jeremiah 22:21
22:21 While you were feeling secure I gave you warning. 7
But you said, “I refuse to listen to you.”
That is the way you have acted from your earliest history onward. 8
Indeed, you have never paid attention to me.
Jeremiah 22:26
22:26 I will force you and your mother who gave you birth into exile. You will be exiled to 9 a country where neither of you were born, and you will both die there.
Jeremiah 23:39
23:39 So 10 I will carry you far off 11 and throw you away. I will send both you and the city I gave to you and to your ancestors out of my sight. 12
Jeremiah 38:10
38:10 Then the king gave Ebed Melech the Ethiopian the following order: “Take thirty 13 men with you from here and go pull the prophet Jeremiah out of the cistern before he dies.”
Jeremiah 51:59
51:59 This is the order Jeremiah the prophet gave to Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went to King Zedekiah of Judah in Babylon during the fourth year of his reign. 14 (Seraiah was a quartermaster.) 15
1 tn Heb “In those days.”
2 tn Heb “the house of Judah will walk together with the house of Israel.”
3 tn Heb “the land that I gave your [fore]fathers as an inheritance.”
4 tn Heb “over which my name is called.” For this nuance of this idiom cf. BDB 896 s.v. קָרָא Niph.2.d(4) and see the usage in 2 Sam 12:28.
5 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 22, 25, 26).
6 tn Heb “I will do to this house which I…in which you put…and to this place which…as I did to Shiloh.”
7 tn Heb “I spoke to you in your security.” The reference is to the sending of the prophets. Compare this context with the context of 7:25. For the nuance “security” for this noun (שַׁלְוָה, shalvah) rather than “prosperity” as many translate see Pss 122:7; 30:6 and the related adjective (שָׁלֵו, shalev) in Jer 49:31; Job 16:2; 21:23.
8 tn Heb “from your youth.” Compare the usage in 2:2; 3:24 and compare a similar idea in 7:25.
9 tn Heb “I will hurl you and your mother…into another land where…” The verb used here is very forceful. It is the verb used for Saul throwing a spear at David (1 Sam 18:11) and for the Lord unleashing a violent storm on the sea (Jonah 1:4). It is used both here and in v. 28 for the forceful exile of Jeconiah and his mother.
10 tn The translation of v. 38 and the first part of v. 39 represents the restructuring of a long and complex Hebrew sentence: Heb “But if you say, ‘The burden of the Lord,’ therefore this is what the Lord says, ‘Because you said this word, “The burden of the Lord,” even though I sent unto saying, “you shall not say, ‘The burden of the Lord,’ therefore…” The first “therefore” picks up the “if” (BDB 487 s.v. כֵּן 3.d) and the second answer the “because” (BDB 774 s.v. יַעַן 1).
11 tc The translation follows a few Hebrew mss and the major versions. The majority of Hebrew mss read “I will totally forget [or certainly forget] you.” In place of וְנָשִׁיתִי (vÿnashiti) a few Hebrew mss, LXX, Aquila, Symmachus, Syriac, and Vulgate read וְנָשָׂאתִי (vÿnasa’ti). Instead of the infinitive absolute נָשׁאֹ (nasho’) a number of Hebrew mss, Aquila, Symmachus, Syriac, and Vulgate read נָשׂאֹ (naso’). For the confusion of III א and III ה verbs presupposed by the miswriting of the Hebrew text see GKC 216 §75.qq and compare the forms of נָבָא (nava’) in Jer 26:9 and 1 Sam 10:6. While the verb “forget” would not be totally inappropriate here it does not fit the concept of “throwing away from my presence” as well as “pick up” does. For the verb נָשָׂא (nasa’) meaning “carry you off” compare the usage in 1 Kgs 15:22; 18:12 (and see BDB 671 s.v. נָשָׂא 3.b). Many see the nuance “pick you up” carrying through on the wordplay in v. 33. While that may be appropriate for the repetition of the verb “throw away” (נָטַשׁ, natash) that follows, it does not seem as appropriate for the use of the infinitive absolute that follows the verb which expresses some kind of forcefulness (see GKC 343 §113.q).
12 tn Heb “throw you and the city that I gave you and your fathers out of my presence.” The English sentences have been broken down to conform to contemporary English style.
13 tc Some modern English versions (e.g., NRSV, REB, TEV) and commentaries read “three” on the basis that thirty men would not be necessary for the task (cf. J. Bright, Jeremiah [AB], 231). Though the difference in “three” and “thirty” involves minimal emendation (שְׁלֹשָׁה [shÿlosha] for שְׁלֹשִׁים [shÿloshim]) there is no textual or versional evidence for it except for one Hebrew ms. Perhaps the number was large to prevent the officials from hindering Ebed Melech from accomplishing the task.
14 sn This would be 582 b.c.
15 tn Heb “an officer of rest.”