Jeremiah Chapter 27 verse 2 Holy Bible
Thus saith Jehovah to me: Make thee bonds and bars, and put them upon thy neck;
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This is what the Lord has said to me: Make for yourself bands and yokes and put them on your neck;
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Thus hath Jehovah said unto me: Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck;
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Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,
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Thus says Yahweh to me: Make you bonds and bars, and put them on your neck;
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`Thus said Jehovah unto me, Make to thee bands and yokes,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Make thee bends and yokes; rather, bands and poles; i.e. the bands which secured the two pieces of wood placed respectively above and beneath the neck of the ox, so forming a yoke. Hence, in Leviticus 26:13, we find the phrase, "the poles [Authorized Version wrongly, 'the bands'] of your yoke." It is clear from Jeremiah 28:10 that this account is to be taken literally.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Make thee bonds and yokes.--This method of vivid symbolic prediction had a precedent in the conduct of Isaiah when he walked "naked and barefoot" (Isaiah 20:2). We have to realise the infinitely more vivid impression which the appearance of the prophet in this strange guise, as though he were at once a captive slave and a beast of burden, would make on the minds of men, as compared with simply warning them of a coming subjugation. The principle on which the prophet acted was that of Horace (Ep. ad Pis. 180):--"Segnius irritant animos demissa per aures,Quam quae sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus, et quaeIpse sibi tradit spectator.""Things that we hear less stir the inmost soul,Than what the eye sees dramatised in act."So Agabus bound himself with Paul's girdle (Acts 21:11). So Ezekiel dug through the wall of his house and carried out his stuff (Ezekiel 12:5-7). We find from Jeremiah 28:10 that the prophet obeyed the command quite literally. . . .