Study it in the app“And you, do not listen to your prophets, or to your diviners, or to your dreams, or to your soothsayers, or to your sorcerers, who are saying to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’”
And you,וְאַתֶּםdo notאַלlistenתִּשְׁמְעוּto your prophets,אֶל נְבִיאֵיכֶםor to your diviners,וְאֶל קֹסְמֵיכֶםor to your dreams,וְאֶל חֲלֹמֹתֵיכֶםor to your soothsayers,וְאֶל עֹנְנֵיכֶםor to your sorcerers,וְאֶל כַּשָּׁפֵיכֶםwhoאֲשֶׁר הֵםare sayingאֹמְרִיםto you,אֲלֵיכֶםsaying,לֵאמֹר‘You will notלֹאserveתַעַבְדוּthe kingאֶת מֶלֶךְof Babylon.’בָּבֶל
listen
To pay close attention, or heed a plea.
Where else “tishmu” appearsprophet
Someone who speaks for YHWH.
Where else “nevie” appearspractice divination
Practice divination: try to learn what is hidden by casting lots or by signs.
Where else “kosme” appearsdream
Dream: what one sees while asleep. In the Bible, God sometimes speaks through dreams.
Where else “chalomote” appearspractice soothsaying
To seek signs to divine, something forbidden.
Where else “onne” appearssorcerer
Sorcerer, one who practices magic.
Where else “kashafe” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “omrim” appearsserve
To serve a person.
Where else “taavdu” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsBabel, Babylon
See it on the mapWhere else “bavel” appearsBabylon
Today: Babylon ruins, near Hillah, Iraq
A great city on the Euphrates River, in present-day Iraq, about 53 miles (85 km) south of Baghdad.
In its land the languages were confused at Babel (Gen 11:9). Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem and took the people captive there (2 Kgs 25:1-11). Daniel lived there (Dan 1:1-6).
8And it will be: the nation or the kingdom that will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, with the sword and with the famine and with the pestilence I will punish that nation, declares YHWH, until I have finished off them by his hand.
9 · This verse (above)
10For they are prophesying falsehood to you, so as to remove you far from your land, and so that I will drive you out, and you will perish.
