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Jeremiah 17:19–27 — Sabbath burdens at Jerusalem gates
Jeremiah moves from personal prayer to public covenant obedience. Standing at Jerusalem’s gates, he warns against carrying burdens and conducting ordinary commerce on the Sabbath. Obedience would preserve royal and civic life; refusal would bring an unquenchable fire upon the gates and palaces of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah warns Jerusalem against carrying burdens through the city gates on the Sabbath; Nehemiah later confronts merchants and Sabbath commerce at those same gates after the exile. The lexical, legal, and Jerusalem-specific correspondence makes this a strong covenant continuity link between prophetic warning and postexilic reform.
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