Jeremiah 27:2
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Thus said the LORD to me; Make you bonds and yokes, and put them on your neck,
American King James Version (AKJV)
Thus said the LORD to me; Make you bonds and yokes, and put them on your neck,
American Standard Version (ASV)
Thus saith Jehovah to me: Make thee bonds and bars, and put them upon thy neck;
Basic English Translation (BBE)
This is what the Lord has said to me: Make for yourself bands and yokes and put them on your neck;
Webster's Revision
Thus saith the LORD to me; Make for thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,
World English Bible
Thus says Yahweh to me: Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck;
English Revised Version (ERV)
Thus saith the LORD to me: Make thee bands and bars, and put them upon thy neck;
Clarke's Jeremiah 27:2 Bible Commentary
Make thee bonds and yokes - Probably yokes with straps, by which they were attached to the neck. This was a symbolical action, to show that the several kings mentioned below should be brought under the dominion of the Chaldeans.
Barnes's Jeremiah 27:2 Bible Commentary
Yokes - Two curved pieces of wood, the one put over the neck of the ox, the other under, and then fastened together by bonds or cords (compare Psalm 2:3). Compare the marginal references.
Wesley's Jeremiah 27:2 Bible Commentary
27:2 Thus saith - God commands the prophet to procure some yokes with bonds to make them more fast; and to put one of them upon his own neck, that therein he might be a type both to his own people, and also the people afterward mentioned, that they should be in bondage to the king of Babylon.
