Jeremiah 27:20
Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;
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Gill's Exposition
Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not,.... For he seems only to have taken the vessels of gold, and left the vessels of brass, as the above were; see Kg2 24:13;
when he carried away captive…
What was said to all the nations is here with a particular tenderness applied to the nation of the Jews, for whom Jeremiah was sensibly concerned. The case at present stood thus: Judah and Jerusalem…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
nobles The word is not pure Hebrew but Aramaic, and thus mayindicate that the clause is a later insertion. It occurs again in Jer 39:6, and in 1Ki 21:8, etc., but is found chiefly in Neh.
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