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A Futile Alliance
Commentators explain that the messengers from Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon were in Jerusalem to forge a military alliance with King Zedekiah against the Babylonian empire. This coalition represented the region's best human effort to resist conquest, giving Judah a false sense of security that Jeremiah's prophecy was meant to shatter.
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 27:3
18th Century
Theologian
Come – Or, have come. The ambassadors of these five kings had probably come to Jerusalem to consult about forming a league to throw off the …
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 27:3
19th Century
Bishop
And send them to the king of Edom. — The princes who are named had, as the context shows, sent their ambassadors to Zedek…
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 27:1–5
16th Century
Theologian
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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John Gill
On Jeremiah 27:3
17th Century
Pastor
And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 27:1–11
17th Century
Minister
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…