Jeremiah 21


Jeremiah 21 is the twenty-first chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains prophecies attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This chapter contains a record of Jeremiah's message to King Zedekiah's emissaries and a warning to the House of David.

Text

The original text of this chapter was written in Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 14 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis, the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets, Aleppo Codex, Codex Leningradensis. Some fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e., 4QJera with the extant verse 1, and 4QJerc with extant verses 7‑10.
There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Marchalianus.

Parashot

The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex. Jeremiah 21 is a part of the Eighth prophecy in the section of Prophecies of Destruction . : open parashah; : closed parashah.

Verse 1

Biblical commentator F. B. Huey notes that some scholars regard a later passage,, as a "background for Jeremiah 21:1-7".
"Pashhur", the son of Melchiah, is also named in Jeremiah 38:1. "Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah" is described as the "second priest" or deputy in ; later with others, he came again to Jeremiah for advice and was executed by Nebuchadnezzar at Riblah. According to Huey, he "was not hostile to Jeremiah".

Verse 9

Huey, and others as well, notes that the wording of this verse is similar to Jeremiah 38:2; Huey concludes that the prophecy could have been announced repeatedly.

Verse 13

The Jerusalem Bible suggests that this announcement is "probably addressed to the inhabitants of the royal palace built on Ophel which looks down on the valley of the Kidron.

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