Armiya 27

In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim Ibn Josiah, king of Judah, came this word to Armiya from Allah, saying, ²Thus says Allah to me: Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck; ³and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah; ⁴and give them a charge to their masters, saying, Thus says Allah, Lord of the universe, the God of Israel, Thus shall you tell your masters: ⁵I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me. ⁶Now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the animals of the field also have I given him to serve him. ⁷All the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave. ⁸It 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 Allah, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand. ⁹But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon: ¹⁰for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and you should perish. ¹¹But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that nation will I let remain in their own land, says Allah; and they shall till it, and dwell therein. ¹²I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live. ¹³Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Allah has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? ¹⁴Do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you. ¹⁵For I have not sent them, says Allah, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you. ¹⁶Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says Allah: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of Allah's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you. ¹⁷Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation? ¹⁸But if they be prophets, and if the word of Allah be with them, let them now make intercession to Allah, Lord of the universe, that the vessels which are left in the house of Allah, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, do not go to Babylon. ¹⁹For thus says Allah, Lord of the universe concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city, ²⁰which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take, when he carried away captive Jeconiah Ibn Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; ²¹yes, thus says Allah, Lord of the universe, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Allah, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem: ²²They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit them, says Allah; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.

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