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301 : Basic English : Jeremiah 33,34; 1 Thessalonians 5 1. Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, saying,
2. These are the words of the Lord, who is doing it, the Lord who is forming it, to make it certain; the Lord is his name;
3. Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.
4. For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said about the houses of this town and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been broken down to make earthworks and ...;
5. ... and to make them full of the dead bodies of men whom I have put to death in my wrath and in my passion, and because of whose evil-doing I have kept my face covered from this town.
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300 : Basic English : Jeremiah 32; 1 Thessalonians 4 1. The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
2. Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was round Jerusalem, shutting it in: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, in the house of the king of Judah.
3. For Zedekiah, king of Judah, had had him shut up, saying, Why have you, as a prophet, been saying, The Lord has said, See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;
4. And Zedekiah, king of Judah, will not get away from the hands of the Chaldaeans, but will certainly be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and will have talk with him, mouth to mouth, and see him, eye to eye.
5. And he will take Zedekiah away to Babylon, where he will be till I have pity on him, says the Lord: though you are fighting with the Chaldaeans, things will not go well for you?
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299 : Basic English : Jeremiah 30,31; 1 Thessalonians 3 1. The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
2. The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Put down in a book all the words which I have said to you.
3. For see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will let the fate of my people Israel and Judah be changed, says the Lord: and I will make them come back to the land which I gave to their fathers, so that they may take it for their heritage.
4. And these are the words which the Lord said about Israel and about Judah.
5. This is what the Lord has said: A voice of shaking fear has come to our ears, of fear and not of peace.
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298 : Basic English : Jeremiah 28,29; 1 Thessalonians 2 1. And it came about in that year, when Zedekiah first became king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah, the son of Azzur the prophet, who came from Gibeon, said to Jeremiah in the house of the Lord, before the priests and all the people,
2. These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: By me the yoke of the king of Babylon has been broken.
3. In the space of two years I will send back into this place all the vessels of the Lord's house which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took away from this place to Babylon:
4. And I will let Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, come back to this place, with all the prisoners of Judah who went to Babylon, says the Lord: for I will have the yoke of the king of Babylon broken.
5. Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, before the priests and all the people who had come into the house of the Lord,
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297 : Basic English : Jeremiah 26,27; 1 Thessalonians 1 1. When Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, first became king, this word came from the Lord, saying,
2. This is what the Lord has said: Take your place in the open square of the Lord's house and say to all the towns of Judah, who come into the Lord's house for worship, everything I give you orders to say to them: keep back not a word;
3. It may be that they will give ear, and that every man will be turned from his evil way, so that my purpose of sending evil on them because of the evil of their doings may be changed.
4. And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: If you do not give ear to me and go in the way of my law which I have put before you,
5. And give ear to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you, getting up early and sending them, though you gave no attention;
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