Jeremiah 27:8

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It shall happen, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

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Ammon, Moab, and Edom lay east and southeast of Judah; Tyre and Sidon were Phoenician coastal cities; Jerusalem was Judah’s capital; and Babylon was the dominant Mesopotamian empire. Jeremiah warns these surrounding kingdoms, as well as Judah, that refusing Babylon’s yoke meant resisting God’s appointed judgment.

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Jeremiah 27:8 mentions Ammon, Babylon, Edom, Jerusalem, Moab, Sidon and Tyre.

Ammon · Berthold Werner
Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky
Edom · Uri
Jerusalem · Godot13

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