Study it in the app“The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign; and Seraiah was chief of the resting place.”
The wordהַדָּבָרthatאֲשֶׁרJeremiahיִרְמְיָהוּthe prophetהַנָּבִיאcommandedצִוָּהSeraiahאֶת שְׂרָיָהsonבֶןof Neriah,נֵרִיָּהsonבֶּןof Mahseiah,מַחְסֵיָהwhen he wentבְּלֶכְתּוֹwith Zedekiahאֶת צִדְקִיָּהוּkingמֶלֶךְof Judahיְהוּדָהto Babylonבָּבֶלin the fourth yearבִּשְׁנַת הָרְבִעִיתof his reign;לְמָלְכוֹand Seraiahוּשְׂרָיָהwas chiefשַׂרof the resting place.מְנוּחָה
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “davar” appearsJeremiah
Jeremiah: a name meaning "YHWH raises up" or "YHWH exalts," borne by several men: best known is the prophet, son of Hilkiah, from Anathoth (Jeremiah 1:1); in 2 Kings 23:31 and 24:18 another Jeremiah, of Libnah, grandfather of two kings.
Where else “yirmyahu” appearsprophet
Someone who speaks for YHWH.
Where else “navi” appearscommand
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “tsiva” appearsSeraiah
Seraiah, the name of several men; among them David's scribe (2 Samuel 8:17). It means "YHWH has prevailed".
Where else “seraya” appearsson
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “ven” appearsNeriah
Neriah: a name meaning "YHWH is a lamp"; the father of Baruch, Jeremiah's scribe, and of Seraiah.
Where else “neriya” appearsMahseiah
Mahseiah: a name meaning "YHWH is a refuge"; the grandfather of Baruch and of Seraiah.
Where else “machseya” appearsgo
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lecht” appearsZedekiah
Zedekiah: a name meaning "YHWH is righteousness." It is borne by several people, among them the prophet, son of Chenaanah, who announced a false victory to Ahab (1 Kings 22), and the last king of Judah (2 Kings 24:17).
Where else “tsidkiyahu” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsJudah
Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah; also the tribe that came from him and its land, and later the southern kingdom; King David came from it. The name sounds like "give thanks". Borne also by other Israelites.
Where else “yehuda” appearsBabel, Babylon
See it on the mapWhere else “bavel” appearsyear
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shenat” appearsfourth
What holds the place after the third.
Where else “reviit” appearsreign
To be king of a people, or to begin ruling it as king.
Where else “malch” appearschief
Someone set over others, in the army or in the state.
Where else “sar” appearsrest, resting place
Rest, a place of rest.
Where else “menucha” appears“Chief of the resting place”: it can be understood as the one in charge of preparing where to stop and lodge on the journey.
Babylon
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).
58Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly razed, and her high gates will be burned with fire; and peoples labor for nothing, and nations for the fire, and they grow weary.
59 · This verse (above)
60And Jeremiah wrote all the evil that would come upon Babylon in one book, all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
