Yokes - Two curved pieces of wood, the one put over the neck of the ox, the other under it, and then fastened together by bonds or cords . C…

Make thee bonds and yokes. —This method of vivid symbolic prediction had a precedent in the conduct of Isaiah when he wal…

Jeremiah prefaces this prediction by saying that it was delivered to him at the beginning of Jehoiakim’s reign. But this beginning, as we have said…

Thus says the Lord to me, make you bonds and yokes The yokes were made of wood, as appears from ([Reference Jeremiah 28:1…

Jeremiah is to prepare a sign that all the neighbouring countries would be made subject to the king of Babylon. God asserts his right to dispose of…

1. Here, after presenting a clear title, the prophet refutes the false comfort offered by the prophets. He does this first in a general way,…