Bible Strands
Jeremiah 51:59
This is the message that Jeremiah the prophet gave to the quartermaster Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jeremiah the prophet entrusts a written message to Seraiah, son of Neriah and grandson of Mahseiah, at the quartermaster’s commission. This delivery occurs when Seraiah travels to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.
The words — The Hebrew text foregrounds דָּבָר (da.Var, "the word") and צִוָּה (tzi.Vah, "he commanded"), structuring the passage as a formal prophetic directive.
The thread — This administrative commissioning mirrors Jeremiah’s earlier instructions to Baruch in Jeremiah 32:12 and Jeremiah 36:4, and shares the same fourth-year chronological marker found in Jeremiah 28:1.
Why it lands — The verse grounds the subsequent oracle of Babylon’s destruction in a documented historical moment, requiring the reader to treat the following judgment as a transmitted, authoritative decree rather than a spontaneous utterance.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 32:12 and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.
- Jeremiah 36:4 So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and at the dictation of Jeremiah, Baruch wrote on a scroll all the words that the LORD had spoken to Jeremiah.
- Jeremiah 28:1 In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:
- Jeremiah 45:1 This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah when he wrote these words on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:
- Jeremiah 52:1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.