Jeremiah 27:9
ContextNETBible | So do not listen to your prophets or to those who claim to predict the future by divination, 1 by dreams, by consulting the dead, 2 or by practicing magic. They keep telling you, ‘You do not need to be 3 subject to the king of Babylon.’ |
XREF | Ex 7:11; De 18:10-12,14; Jos 13:22; Isa 8:19; Isa 47:12-14; Jer 14:14; Jer 23:16,25,32; Jer 27:14-16; Jer 29:8; Mic 3:7; Zec 10:2; Mal 3:5; Ac 8:11; Re 9:21; Re 18:23; Re 21:8; Re 22:15 |
NET © Notes |
1 sn Various means of divination are alluded to in the OT. For example, Ezek 21:26-27 alludes to throwing down arrows to see which way they fall and consulting the shape of the liver of slaughtered animals. Gen 44:5 alludes to reading the future through pouring liquid in a cup. The means alluded to in this verse were all classified as pagan and prohibited as illegitimate in Deut 18:10-14. The 2 sn An example of this is seen in 1 Sam 28. 3 tn The verb in this context is best taken as a negative obligatory imperfect. See IBHS 508-9 §31.4g for discussion and examples. See Exod 4:15 as an example of positive obligation. |