Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 47

This is a scholarly presentation of parallel ancient texts of the Book of Jeremiah, displaying the same biblical passage across four versions: the Hebrew Masoretic Text (Tan), the Greek Septuagint (Sep), the Latin Vulgate (Vul), and the English King James Version (KJV). Three of the columns — KJV, Hebrew, and Vulgate — all present Jeremiah 47:1–7, the prophetic oracle against the Philistines, in which God announces a devastating flood-like invasion from the north, with imagery of thundering chariots, shaking fathers too fearful to look back at their children, and a divine sword commanded against Gaza and Ashkelon. The Septuagint column, however, contains an entirely different passage: the release of Jeremiah from chains by the Babylonian captain Nebuzaradan and Jeremiah's subsequent journey to join the governor Gedaliah at Mizpah — content that corresponds to Jeremiah 39–40 in the MT ordering. This divergence is the text's central point of interest: it illustrates the well-documented and dramatic textual split between the Septuagint and Masoretic traditions of Jeremiah, where the LXX version is roughly one-seventh shorter and arranges material — including the oracles against foreign nations — in a substantially different order. The format (columns with strong numbers or interlinear notation) suggests a critical apparatus or comparative Bible aimed at scholars or students of textual criticism who need to examine how these ancient traditions diverge at a granular level. Anyone interested in the manuscript history of the Hebrew Bible, or in how the LXX and MT represent potentially distinct literary editions of Jeremiah, would find this directly relevant.

Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 47

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