Jeremiah 27:16 - Exposition

The vessels of the Lord's house ; i.e. the golden vessels which Solomon had made, and which Nebuchadnezzar had taken away (l Kings 7:48-50; 2 Kings 24:13 ). Now shortly . These words are wanting in the Septuagint, and, considering that the Greek is also without the prediction in Jeremiah 27:22 , that the vessels of the temple and of the palace should be brought back in the day of visitation (which seems inconsistent with Jeremiah 52:17 ), the question arises whether the words "now shortly" here are not due to a hasty copyist.