“Thus says Yahweh
Concerning the king
Who sits
On the throne of David.
This concerns
All the people
Who live in this city.
This concerns
Your kinsmen
Who did not go out
With you into exile.”
This and the following verses are lacking in the Greek Septuagint translation, since they are like a comment on Jeremiah’s letter. Yahweh seems to be talking about the king in Jerusalem as well as the people who were not sent into captivity. These are the people who were left behind in Jerusalem, their relatives. They were the people favored by the Babylonians, since they were not sent to Babylon in the first purge and captivity of 598 BCE.
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