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Jeremiah 33 repeats the promise of a righteous branch of David almost word for word from Jeremiah 23. The Greek Septuagint has no evidence of the later verse, so editors likely added it long after the promise had gone unfulfilled.
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Jeremiah 23:5
Hebrew Bible
4 I will install rulers over them who will care for them. Then they will no longer need to fear or be terrified. None of them will turn up missing. I, the Lord, promise it! 5 “I, the Lord, promise that a new time will certainly come when I will raise up for them a righteous branch, a descendant of David. He will rule over them with wisdom and understanding and will do what is just and right in the land. 6 Under his rule Judah will enjoy safety and Israel will live in security. This is the name he will go by:‘The Lord has provided us with justice.’
Jeremiah 33:15
Hebrew Bible
14 “I, the Lord, affirm: ‘The time will certainly come when I will fulfill my gracious promise concerning the nations of Israel and Judah. 15 In those days and at that time I will raise up for them a righteous branch31 of David. “‘He will do what is just and right in the land. 16 Under his rule Judah will enjoy safety and Jerusalem will live in security. At that time Jerusalem will be called “The Lord has provided us with justice.”
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"... This can be recognized, for example, in the book of Jeremiah, where Jeremiah 33:14–16 takes up Jeremiah 23:5–6 (see table on p. 73) and also refers back to “the good word” from Jeremiah 29:10. As in the section above, a text takes up the preexisting promises and systematizes the content. Jeremiah 33:14–26 has a special place within the book of Jeremiah: at 185 words, it is the longest plus that appears in the Hebrew but not the Greek version of the book. This feature can hardly be evaluated in any way except that Jeremiah 33:14–26 was not present in the Hebrew Vorlage used by the Greek translation. The text with great probability belongs to the end of the productive literary transmission history of the book of Jeremiah. Now the opening section in Jeremiah 33:14–16 indicates clearly that it is related to preexisting texts that it evidently takes up and reinterprets. On the one hand, it recalls the messianic prophecy of Jeremiah 23:5–6, and on the other, the “good words” in Jeremiah 29:10, which view the return of the Babylonian exiles to Jerusalem. ..."
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