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I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

Jeremiah 27:12 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીયર્મિયા ૨૭:૧૨
તેથી મેં યહૂદિયાના રાજા સિદકિયાને આ બધી બાબતો કહી કે; “તમે તમારી ગરદનો પર બાબિલના રાજાની ઝૂંસરી મૂકશો તો તમે જીવતા રહેશો.
हिन्दीयिर्मयाह २७:१२
यहूदा के राजा सिदकिय्याह से भी मैंने ये बातें कहीं: “अपनी प्रजा समेत तू बाबेल के राजा का जूआ अपनी गर्दन पर ले, और उसके और उसकी प्रजा के अधीन रहकर जीवित रह।

In context

10for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, so that I would drive you out, and you would perish.

11But the nation that brings their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him, that nation I will let remain in their own land,’ says the LORD; ‘and they will till it and dwell in it.’”’”

12I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

13Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

14Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you.

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