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19-21 After all, when Nebuchadnezzar took King Jehoiachin[a] to Babylonia as a prisoner, he didn't take everything of value from Jerusalem. He left the bronze pillars, the huge bronze bowl called the Sea, and the movable bronze stands in the temple, and he left a lot of other valuable things in the palace and in the rest of Jerusalem.

But now I, the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, say that all these things 22 will be taken to Babylonia, where they will remain until I decide to bring them back to Jerusalem. I, the Lord, have spoken.

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Footnotes

  1. 27.19-21 Jehoiachin: Hebrew “Jeconiah” (see the note at 24.1).

21 yes, this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says about the things that are left in the house of the Lord and in the palace of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem: 22 ‘They will be taken(A) to Babylon and there they will remain until the day(B) I come for them,’ declares the Lord. ‘Then I will bring(C) them back and restore them to this place.’”

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