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Jeremia 27

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1 Im Anfang der egierung Zedekias (Im hebr. Text steht irrtümlich: Jojakims. (Vergl. v 3 u. 12.),) des Sohnes Josias, des Königs von Juda, geschah dieses Wort zu Jeremia von seiten Jehovas also: -

2 so sprach Jehova zu mir: Mache dir Bande und Jochstäbe, und lege sie um deinen Hals;

3 und sende sie an den König von Edom und an den König von Moab und an den König der Kinder Ammon, und an den König von Tyrus und an den König von Zidon, durch die Boten, welche nach Jerusalem zu Zedekia, dem König von Juda, gekommen sind;

4 und befiel ihnen, daß sie ihren Herren sagen: So spricht Jehova der Heerscharen, der Gott Israels: Also sollt ihr euren Herren sagen:

5 Ich habe die Erde gemacht, die Menschen und das Vieh, die auf der Fläche der Erde sind, durch meine große Kraft und durch meinen ausgestreckten Arm; und ich gebe sie, wem es mich gut dünkt.

6 Und nun habe ich alle diese Länder in die Hand Nebukadnezars, des Königs von Babel, meines Knechtes, gegeben; und auch die Tiere des Feldes habe ich ihm gegeben, daß sie ihm dienen.

7 Und alle Nationen werden ihm dienen und seinem Sohne und seinem Sohnessohne, bis die Zeit auch seines Landes gekommen ist, und viele Völker und große Könige ihn dienstbar machen.

8 Und es wird geschehen, die Nation und das Königreich, welche ihm, Nebukadnezar, dem König von Babel, nicht dienen und ihren Hals unter (Eig. in; so auch nachher) das Joch des Königs von Babel nicht geben wollen, selbige Nation, spricht Jehova, werde ich heimsuchen mit dem Schwerte und mit dem Hunger und mit der Pest, bis ich sie durch seine Hand aufgerieben habe.

9 Und ihr, höret nicht auf eure Propheten und auf eure Wahrsager und auf eure Träume und auf eure Zauberer und auf eure Beschwörer, die zu euch sprechen und sagen: Ihr werdet dem König von Babel nicht dienen.

10 Denn sie weissagen euch Lüge, um euch aus eurem Lande zu entfernen, und damit ich euch vertreibe und ihr umkommet.

11 Die Nation aber, welche ihren Hals unter das Joch des Königs von Babel bringen und ihm dienen wird, die werde ich in ihrem Lande lassen, spricht Jehova; und sie wird es bebauen und darin wohnen.

12 Und ich redete zu Zedekia, dem König von Juda, nach allen diesen Worten und sprach: Bringet eure Hälse unter das Joch des Königs von Babel und dienet ihm und seinem Volke, so werdet ihr leben.

13 Warum wolltet ihr, du und dein Volk, durch das Schwert, durch den Hunger und durch die Pest sterben, wie Jehova über die Nation geredet hat, welche dem König von Babel nicht dienen will?

14 Und höret nicht auf die Worte der Propheten, die zu euch sprechen und sagen: Ihr werdet dem König von Babel nicht dienen; denn sie weissagen euch Lüge.

15 Denn ich habe sie nicht gesandt, spricht Jehova, und sie weissagen falsch in meinem Namen, damit ich euch vertreibe und ihr umkommet, ihr und die Propheten, die euch weissagen.

16 Und ich redete zu den Priestern und zu diesem ganzen Volke und sprach: So spricht Jehova: Höret nicht auf die Worte eurer Propheten, die euch weissagen und sprechen: Siehe, die Geräte des Hauses Jehovas werden nun bald aus Babel zurückgebracht werden; denn sie weissagen euch Lüge.

17 Höret nicht auf sie; dienet dem König von Babel, so werdet ihr leben; warum sollte diese Stadt zur Einöde werden?

18 Wenn sie aber Propheten sind, und wenn das Wort Jehovas bei ihnen ist, so mögen sie doch bei Jehova der Heerscharen Fürbitte tun, damit die Geräte, welche im Hause Jehovas und im Hause des Königs von Juda und in Jerusalem übriggeblieben sind, nicht nach Babel kommen.

19 Denn so spricht Jehova der Heerscharen von den Säulen und von dem Meere und von den Gestellen und von den übrigen Geräten, die in dieser Stadt übriggeblieben sind,

20 welche Nebukadnezar, der König von Babel, nicht weggenommen hat, als er Jekonja, den Sohn Jojakims, den König von Juda, samt allen Edlen von Juda und Jerusalem, von Jerusalem nach Babel wegführte-

21 denn so spricht Jehova der Heerscharen, der Gott Israels, von den Geräten, welche im Hause Jehovas und im Hause des Königs von Juda und in Jerusalem übriggeblieben sind:

22 Sie sollen nach Babel gebracht werden, und sollen daselbst sein bis auf den Tag, da ich nach ihnen sehen (O. mich ihrer annehmen) werde, spricht Jehova, und ich sie heraufführe und sie an diesen Ort zurückbringe.

   

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Jeremiah

  
A detail from the Winchester Bible, this shows God putting words in the mouth of Jeremiah.

Jeremiah represents the Lord. (Arcana Coelestia 2838[2]).

In Jeremiah 13:7, Jeremiah here signifies the state of the church. (Divine Love and Wisdom 15[4]).

In Jeremiah 38:6, his representation is that same as Joseph's when he was thrown into the pit by his brothers -- that divine truths were rejected by falsities. (Arcana Coelestia 4728).

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 2838 [1-4], 4728 [1-8]; Divine Love and Wisdom 15; Jeremiah 1:1)

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4728. 'And let us throw him into one of the pits' means among falsities. This is clear from the meaning of 'pits' as falsities. The reason 'pits' means falsities is that people who are immersed in false assumptions are kept for a considerable time after death beneath the lower earth, until falsities have been removed from them and so to speak cast away to the sidelines. The places situated there are called pits. Those who go there are people who have to undergo vastation, dealt with in 1106-1113, 2699, 2701, 2704. 1 This is why by 'pits' in the abstract sense falsities are meant. The lower earth is directly below the feet, and is a region that does not extend to any great distance all around. There the majority stay after death before being raised up into heaven. Mention is also made of this lower earth in various places in the Word. Below it are places where vastation takes place, and they are called pits. Beneath these places and extending to quite a distance all around are the hells.

[2] From this one may have some idea of what is meant by hell, the lower earth, or the pit, when these are mentioned in the Word, as in Isaiah,

You have been sent down to hell, to the sides of the pit; you are cast out from your sepulchre like an abominable branch, a garment of the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit. Isaiah 14:15, 19.

This refers to the king of Babel, who represents the profanation of truth, for 'a king' represents truth, 1672, 2015, 2069, 3009, 4581, and 'Babel' profanation, 1182, 1326. 'Hell' is the place where the condemned are, and their state of condemnation is compared to 'an abominable branch' and 'a garment of the slain and of those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit'. 'A garment of the slain' means truth that has been made profane; 'those pierced by the sword' means people among whom truth has been annihilated; 'the pit' means falsity that is to be laid waste, 'stones' the limits of that falsity, which are also therefore called 'the sides', for surrounding the pits there are the hells. 'A garment' means truth, 2576, and therefore 'a garment of the slain' means truth that has been made profane, for 'the blood' with which it has been stained means that which has been made profane, 1003. 'Those pierced by the sword' means those among whom truth has been annihilated, 4503. From all this it is also evident that without the internal sense one cannot by any means know what these things mean.

[3] In Ezekiel,

When I cause you to go down with those going down to the pit, to the people of old, and I cause you to dwell in the land of the lower ones, in the desolations from of old, so that you do not dwell with those going down to the pit, I will give beauty in the land of the living. Ezekiel 26:20.

'Those going down to the pit' stands for those who are made to undergo vastation. 'Not dwelling with those who go down to the pit' stands for being delivered from falsities.

[4] In the same prophet,

That none of all the trees by the waters may become arrogant because of their height nor send their trunk up among entangled boughs, and that none of all [the trees] that drink water may reach above them because of their height - all will be given over to death, to the lower earth in the midst of the sons of men, to those going down to the pit. At the sound of its crashing down I will make the nations tremble, when I cause him to go down into hell with those going down to the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choicest and the most excellent of Lebanon, all those drinking water, will comfort themselves on the lower earth. Ezekiel 31:14, 16.

This refers to Egypt, meaning knowledge, which enters by itself into the mysteries of faith, that is, people who enter into them, 1164, 1165, 1186. What has been stated above makes plain the meaning of hell, the pit, and the lower earth mentioned at this point in the prophet. Nor from anywhere else than the internal sense can anyone see what is meant by 'the trees by the waters', 'the trees of Eden', 'the trunk sent up among entangled boughs', 'the choicest and the most excellent of Lebanon', and 'those drinking water'.

[5] In the same prophet,

Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and cause it and the daughters of magnificent nations to go down to the lower earth. with those going down into the pit. Asshur is there to whom graves have been given in the sides of the pit, all of them slain with the sword. Ezekiel 32:18, 22-23.

What these words mean may be seen from the explanations given above. In David,

Jehovah, You have caused my soul to come up out of hell; You have caused me to live, out of those going down to the pit. Psalms 30:3.

In the same author,

I have been reckoned with them going down to the pit; I have become as a man with no strength. You have put me in the pit of the lower ones, in darkness, in the depths. Psalms 88:4, 6.

In Jonah,

I had gone down to the bottoms of the mountains; the bars of the land were upon me for ever. Nonetheless You brought up my life from the pit. Jonah 2:6.

This refers to the Lord's temptations, and to deliverance from them. 'The bottoms of the mountains' means where the most condemned are, for the gloomy dark clouds which seemingly surround them are mountains.

[6] As regards 'the pit' meaning falsity laid waste, and in the abstract sense falsity itself, this is clear in addition in Isaiah,

They will be gathered together, in a gathering as the bound for the pit, and they will be shut up in the dungeon; but after a multitude of days they will be visited. Isaiah 24:22.

In the same prophet,

Where is the anger of the oppressor? He that leads out will hasten to open, and he will not die at the pit; nor will bread fail. Isaiah 51:13-14.

In Ezekiel,

Behold, I am bringing strangers upon you, the violent of the nations, who will draw their swords against the loveliness of your wisdom, and they will profane your splendour. They will bring you down into the pit, and you will die the deaths of those slain in the heart of the seas. Ezekiel 28:7-8.

This refers to the prince of Tyre, who means people under the influence of false assumptions.

[7] In Zechariah,

Exult greatly, O daughter of Zion! Make a noise, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you, just, meek, and riding on an ass, and on a colt, the young of she-asses. Through the blood of the covenant I will let out your bound ones from the pit in which there is no water. Zechariah 9:9, 11.

'The pit in which there is no water' stands for falsity that has no truth at all within it, as also in verse 24 below where it is said that they cast Joseph into the pit and the pit was empty, having no water in it. In David,

To You, O Jehovah, do I call; my rock, do not be silent to me, lest if You are silent to me I seem like those going down into the pit. Psalms 28:1.

In the same author,

Jehovah caused me to come up out of the pit of VASTATION, out of the miry clay, and He set my feet upon a rock. Psalms 40:2.

[8] In the same author,

Do not let the flow of waters rush over me, nor the deep swallow me up, nor the pit close its mouth over me. Psalms 69:15.

In the same author,

He sent His word and healed them, and rescued them from their pits. Psalms 107:20.

'From pits' stands for from falsities. In the same author,

Make haste, answer me, O Jehovah. My spirit is consumed. Do not hide Your face from me, lest I become like those going down into the pit. Psalms 143:7.

Because 'a pit' means falsity, and 'the blind' those who are immersed in falsities, 2383, the Lord therefore says,

Let them alone; they are blind leaders of the blind. For if the blind leads the blind both will fall into a pit. Matthew 15:13, 14; Luke 6:39.

Something similar to what was represented by Joseph was also represented by the prophet Jeremiah, who describes what happened to him as follows,

They took Jeremiah and cast him into the pit which was in the court of the guard, and let Jeremiah down by ropes into the pit where there was no water. Jeremiah 38:6.

That is, they cast Divine Truths away among falsities that had no truth at all within them.

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1. The Latin has 2711, 2714, but 2701, 2704 seem to be intended

  
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