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Jeremiah 28:3
Within two years I will restore to this place all the articles of the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed from here and carried to Babylon.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jeremiah relays a prophetic declaration to Hananiah in Jerusalem, asserting that the temple vessels taken by Nebuchadnezzar will return to their original location. The statement functions as a direct counter-claim to Babylonian dominance during the exile period.
The words — מֵשִׁיב (me.Shiv) denotes the active verb "[will] bring back," while שְׁנָתַיִם (she.na.Ta.yim) fixes the timeline at "two years." These terms anchor the prophecy in a specific agent and a bounded period.
The thread — The removal of the temple articles is documented in 2 Kings 24:13, 2 Chronicles 36:10, and Daniel 1:2. Jeremiah 28:3 directly addresses the reversal of those specific historical transfers.
Why it lands — The verse demands verification of a fixed deadline for the return of sacred objects, testing the prophet’s authority against observable reality. It requires the reader to weigh a stated timeline against historical events.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the Lord’s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon:
Cross-references
- 2 Kings 24:13 As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 36:10 In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from the house of the LORD. And he made Jehoiachin’s relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
- Daniel 1:2 And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them in the treasury of his god.
- Genesis 47:9 “My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
- Genesis 47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.
- Psalms 90:10 The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
- Jeremiah 27:16 Then I said to the priests and to all this people, “This is what the LORD says: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Look, very soon now the articles from the house of the LORD will be brought back from Babylon.’ They are prophesying to you a lie.