Jeremiah 27:7

Jeremiah 27:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
• New International Version (NIV)All nations will serve him and his son and his grandson until the time for his land comes; then many nations and great kings will subjugate him.
• English Standard Version (ESV)All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
• New King James Version (NKJV)So all nations shall serve him and his son and his son’s son, until the time of his land comes; and then many nations and great kings shall make him serve them.

Context of Jeremiah 27:7

5“I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the face of the earth by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to whomever pleases Me. 6Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant and instrument, and I have also given the wild animals of the field to serve him. All nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson until the [appointed] time [of punishment] for his own land comes; then many nations and great kings shall make him their servant. 8“But any nation or kingdom that will not serve this same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish,” says the Lord, “with the sword, with famine and with pestilence (virulent disease), until I have destroyed it by Nebuchadnezzar’s hand. 9And as for you, do not listen to your [counterfeit] prophets, your diviners, your dreams and dreamers, your soothsayers or your sorcerers, who say to you, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’

Jeremiah 27:7 word by word

וְעָבְד֤וּ אֹתוֹ֙ כָּל־הַגּוֹיִ֔ם וְאֶת־בְּנ֖וֹ וְאֶֽת־בֶּן־בְּנ֑וֹ עַ֣ד בֹּא־עֵ֤ת אַרְצוֹ֙ גַּם־ה֔וּא וְעָ֤בְדוּ בוֹ֙ גּוֹיִ֣ם רַבִּ֔ים וּמְלָכִ֖ים גְּדֹלִֽים׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And all nationsגּוֹיgôy gôy · nationH1471
• shall serveעָבַד‛âbad · to serveH5647
• him, and his sonבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• and his son’sבֵּןbên · son: descendant/peopleH1121
• until the very timeעֵת‛êth · timeH6256
• of his landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• comeבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935
• and then manyרַבrab · manyH7227
• and greatגָּדוֹלgâdôl gâdôl · great: largeH1419
• kingsמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · kingH4428

Cross-references for Jeremiah 27:7

• Jeremiah 25:11This whole land will be a waste and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
• Jeremiah 50:9For behold, I will stir up and bring up against Babylon An assembly of great nations from the north country. They will equip themselves and set up the battle lines against her; From there she will be taken captive. Their arrows will be like an expert warrior Who will not return empty-handed.
• Jeremiah 52:31Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin [also called Coniah and Jeconiah] king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.
• 2 Chronicles 36:20He deported to Babylon those who had escaped from the sword; and they were servants to him and to his sons until the kingdom of Persia was established there,
• Jeremiah 25:12‘Then when seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans (Babylonia),’ says the Lord, ‘for their wickedness, and will make the land [of the Chaldeans] a perpetual waste.
• Jeremiah 50:27Kill all her young bulls [her strength—her young men]; Let them go down to the slaughter! Woe (judgment is coming) to the Chaldeans, for their day has come, The time of their punishment.
• Psalms 37:13The Lord laughs at him [the wicked one—the one who oppresses the righteous], For He sees that his day [of defeat] is coming.
• Psalms 137:8O daughter of Babylon, you devastator, How blessed will be the one Who repays you [with destruction] as you have repaid us.
• Isaiah 13:1The [mournful, inspired] oracle (a burden to be carried) concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw [in a prophetic vision]:
• Isaiah 14:22“I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and survivors, and son and grandson,” declares the Lord.
• Isaiah 21:9Now look! Here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; And all the carved images of her gods are shattered on the ground.”
• Isaiah 47:1“Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; Sit on the ground [in abject humiliation]; there is no throne for you, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.
• Daniel 5:25“This is the inscription that was written, ‘mene, mene, tekel, upharsin [numbered, numbered, weighed, and divided].’
• Habakkuk 2:7Will your creditors not rise up suddenly, And those who collect from you awaken? Then you will become plunder for them.
• Zechariah 2:8For thus says the Lord of hosts, “After glory He has sent Me against the nations which plunder you—for he who touches you, touches the apple of His eye.
• Revelation 13:5And the beast was given a mouth (the power of speech), uttering great things and arrogant and blasphemous words, and he was given freedom and authority to act and to do as he pleased for forty-two months (three and a half years).

Commentaries on Jeremiah 27:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7And all nations shall serve him (Nebuchadnezzar), and his son, (Evil-merodach Jeremiah 52:31;), and his son's son, (Belshazzar, Daniel 5:11.) All which was literally fulfilled.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7His son, and his son‘s son - Evil-Merodach and Nabonadius (see Daniel 5:1 note). Shall serve themselves of him - See the marginal reference. After long servitude to the Persian and Median kings, the Selucidae ruined the remains of Babylon.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-8God gave Nebuchadnezzar control over the entire region, so resisting him was pointless. All nations would serve him and his descendants. Cyrus conquered Babylon in 539 BC during Belshazzar's reign, who was Nebuchadnezzar's grandson.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. son ... son's son--(2Ch 36:20). Nebuchadnezzar had four successors--Evil-merodach, his son; Neriglissar, husband of Nebuchadnezzar's daughter; his son, Labosodarchod; and Naboned (with whom his son, Belshazzar, was joint king), son of Evil-merodach. But Neriglissar and Labosodarchod were not in the direct male line; so that the prophecy held good to "his son and his son's son," and the intermediate two are omitted. time of his land--that is, of its…Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 27:7

• Ammonites
• Babylon
• Edom
• Edomites
• Instruction
• Nebuchadnezzar
• Sidon
• Tyre

In the dictionaries

• Prophecy
• Captain
• Yoke
• Zedekiah (2)
• Father
• Pharaoh
• Zedekiah

Commentaries on Jeremiah 27

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings