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This chapter, perhaps more than others, captures the essence of Jeremiah\u2019s prophetic mission: to persuade the Judeans that their spiritual independence (i.e., the continued existence of the Temple) depended upon surrendering their political autonomy to Babylon.<\/span><\/p>\n

While that much is agreed upon universally, that is not the case for the text of v. 1:<\/span><\/p>\n

At the beginning of the reign of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD.<\/span><\/p>\n

The problem, to begin, is that vs. 2-3 instruct the prophet to dispatch \u201cthe thongs and bars of a yoke,\u201d the symbols of capitulation, to \u201cenvoys who have come to Zedekiah King of Judah,\u201d and 11 years separate the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim from that of Zedekiah. Furthermore, v. 8 mentions Nebuchadnezzar by name, while according to 25:1 he did not ascend his throne until the 4<\/span>th<\/span> year of Jehoiakim.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, the first verse of the very next chapter (28:1) opens with \u201cThat year, early in the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah,\u201d implying that the events of chapters 27 and 28 occurred in the same year and that year was at the start of the reign of Zedekiah rather than Jehoiakim.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shadal* addressed the problem as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

Undoubtedly, the name Jehoiakim was written by mistake instead of Zedekiah, since v. 3 and v. 12 mention him [explicitly] and the next chapter begins, \u201cThat year, early in the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah\u2026\u201d
\n<\/span>A manuscript in Koenigsberg (Prussia) has Zedekiah, and another manuscript had \u201cZedekiah,\u201d but it was emended to \u201cJehoiakim.\u201d Another manuscript, in the royal library of Vienna, has \u201cZedekiah\u201d in the margin. The Syriac version [Peshitta] reads \u201cZedekiah,\u201d as does an Arabic version of the Septuagint (our text of the Septuagint is missing this verse). It would have been easy for scribes to write \u201cJehoiakim\u201d instead of \u201cZedekiah\u201d since he is mentioned several times in the previous chapter as well as at its beginning (26:1).<\/span><\/p>\n

While the subject of textual emendation is, from a religious perspective, sensitive, Shadal\u2019s willingness to be swayed by the preponderance of logical evidence is consistent with his declaration (that we cited in our introduction to him*) that \u201cThe third foundation of exegesis is the very foundation of all human endeavors: common sense.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

*For an explanation of our objectives in studying Shadal\u2019s commentary, <\/span>see our introduction<\/span><\/a> in Jeremiah chapter 1.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":71065,"id":71065,"title":"Jer27-emendation","filename":"Jer27-emendation.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer27-emendation.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/shadal-corrects-the-text-of-jeremiah\/jer27-emendation\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jer27-emendation","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":71054,"date":"2020-03-01 10:25:13","modified":"2020-03-01 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