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Thus says Yahweh to me: Make you bonds and bars, and put them on your neck;
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The Power of a Sign-Act
Commentators explain that God commanded Jeremiah to wear a yoke as a 'vivid symbolic prediction.' This dramatic, visual act was far more impactful than words alone, serving as a living sermon. Scholars like Ellicott compare it to other prophetic sign-acts, noting that what the eye sees can stir the soul more deeply than what the ear only hears. The strange sight was designed to provoke questions and drive home the reality of coming subjugation.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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 ().…
19th Century
Anglican
Make thee bonds and yokes. —This method of vivid symbolic prediction had a precedent in the conduct of Isaiah when he wal…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, after presenting a clear title, the prophet refutes the false comfort offered by the prophets. He does this first in a general way,…
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