‘Send to all the exiled people, saying, “This is what Jehovah has said concerning Shemaiah of Nehelam: ‘For the reason that Shemaiah has prophesied to you people, but I myself did not send him, and he tried to make you trust in falsehood,

Jer. 29:30-32.

17. Why was revolt against Babylon as fomented by Shemaiah also a revolt against Jehovah?

¹⁷ By what Shemaiah prophesied and wrote he was fomenting revolt on the part of King Zedekiah of Jerusalem with the backing of Pharaoh of Egypt, which was the unrelenting opposer of the Babylonian World Power. But such a revolt would be against more than against Babylon. It would also be against Jehovah, who was then using the king of Babylon as his “servant.” So Jehovah was the heavenly Master of the king of Babylon. Consequently, revolt against Babylon would be primarily revolt against Jehovah.