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Jeremiah 52:27 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 27. 27And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
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Role in This Section
The prophetic word through Jeremiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of…” at Jeremiah 52:27 as part of “Officials Are Executed and Deportation Totals Are Counted.”
Read It With
- Jeremiah 52:24–30
Read Jeremiah 52:27 with 52:24–30. By itself, “And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of…” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, date, imperial horizon, poetic movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Priests, guards, scribes, and citizens are taken to Riblah and killed, followed by three deportation counts totaling 4,600 persons in the stated categories.
Why It Needs Context
Keep the line with Jeremiah 52:24–30. The prophetic word through Jeremiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of…” at Jeremiah 52:27 as part of “Officials Are Executed and Deportation Totals Are Counted.” The literary form and this limit govern it: The numbers are selective rather than a complete death or exile toll, and victims must not be reduced to statistics.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Jeremiah 52:24–30 — Officials Are Executed and Deportation Totals Are CountedSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Jeremiah 52:24–30, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Jeremiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2; fixed commit
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a critical apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Jer.xml, OSIS 52:24–30
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