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Jeremiah 28:4
And I will restore to this place Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon,’ declares the LORD, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The LORD declares through Hananiah in the temple courtyard, addressing Jeremiah before the priests and assembled people. This statement immediately follows Hananiah’s prophecy regarding the return of the temple vessels within two years.
The words — יְכָנְיָה (ye.kha.ne.Yah) translates to Jeconiah, and כָּל (kol) means all. The text explicitly names Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and all exiled Judahites as the recipients of restoration.
The thread — The restoration of Jeconiah parallels the LORD’s prior declaration in Jeremiah 22:24 that he would be rejected as a signet ring and corresponds to the historical release of Jehoiachin in 2 Kings 25:27. The group of exiles referenced here matches those carried to Babylon in Jeremiah 24:1.
Why it lands — The verse requires the reader to recognize that the fate of Judah’s king and exiles depends on divine decree, not Babylonian policy. It demands acceptance that political liberation follows the breaking of the imposed yoke.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the Lord: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 22:24 “As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.
- 2 Kings 25:27 On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.
- Jeremiah 24:1 After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 28:2 “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.
- Genesis 27:40 You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”
- Isaiah 9:4 For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor.
- Jeremiah 2:20 “For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
- Jeremiah 22:10 Do not weep for him who is dead; do not mourn his loss. Weep bitterly for him who is exiled, for he will never return to see his native land.
- Jeremiah 22:26 I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.
- Jeremiah 24:5 “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.