a 2 Chr 30:1, 6; Esth 9:20; Jer 29:25, 29
b 2 Kin 24:12-16; 2 Chr 36:9, 10; Jer 22:24-28; 24:1; 27:20
c 2 Kin 24:12, 15; Jer 13:18; 22:26
d 1 Chr 6:13
e Jer 24:5
f Jer 29:28
h Jer 16:2-4
j Dan 4:27; 6:4, 5
l Ezra 6:10; 7:23; Dan 4:19; 1 Tim 2:1, 2
o Jer 27:9; 29:1
p Jer 14:14; 23:21; 27:14, 15; 28:15; Eph 5:6
r Jer 23:25, 27
t Jer 27:15; 29:21
u Jer 29:31
v 2 Chr 36:21-23; Jer 25:12; 27:22; Dan 9:2; Zech 7:5
w Jer 24:6, 7; Zeph 2:7
x Ps 40:5; Jer 23:5, 6; 30:9, 10
z Is 40:9-11; Jer 30:18-22
aa Jer 31:17; Hos 2:15
ab Ps 50:15; Jer 33:3; Dan 9:3
ac Ps 145:19
ad Deut 4:29; Ps 32:6; Matt 7:7
ae 1 Chr 22:19; 2 Chr 22:9; Jer 24:7
af Deut 30:1-10; Ps 32:6; Is 55:6
ag Jer 30:3; 32:37-41
ai Is 43:5, 6; Jer 23:8; 32:37
aj Jer 3:14; 12:15; 16:15
ak Jer 29:21, 24
al Jer 38:2, 3, 17-23
am Jer 27:8; 29:18; 32:24
an Jer 24:3, 8-10
ao Deut 28:25; 2 Chr 29:8; Jer 15:4; 24:9; 34:17; Ezek 12:15
ap Is 65:15; Jer 42:18
aq Jer 25:9; Lam 2:15, 16
ar Jer 6:19
as Jer 25:4; 26:5; 35:15
at Jer 24:5; Ezek 11:9; Mic 4:10
au Jer 14:14, 15; 29:8, 9; Lam 2:14; 2 Pet 2:1
av Is 65:15
ax Dan 3:6, 21
ay Gen 34:7; 2 Sam 13:12
az Jer 5:8; 23:14
ba Jer 29:8, 9, 21
bb Prov 5:21; Jer 7:11; 16:17; Mal 3:5; Heb 4:13
bc Jer 29:31, 32
bd Jer 29:1
be 2 Kin 25:18; Jer 21:1; 29:29; 37:3; 52:24
bg Jer 20:1
bh 2 Kin 9:11; Hos 9:7; Mark 3:21; John 10:20; Acts 26:24, 25; 2 Cor 5:13
bi Deut 13:1-5; Zech 13:1-5
bj Jer 20:1, 2; Acts 16:24
bk Jer 1:1
bl Jer 29:1
bm Jer 29:10
bn Jer 29:5
bp Jer 29:25
br Jer 29:20
bs Jer 29:24
bt Jer 14:14, 15; 29:9, 23; Ezek 13:8-16, 22, 23
bu Jer 28:15
bv Jer 36:31
bx 1 Sam 2:30-34; Jer 22:30
by 2 Kin 7:2, 19, 20; Jer 17:6; 29:10
ca Deut 13:5; Jer 28:16

‏ Jeremiah 29

Message to the Exiles

1Now these are the words of the aletter which Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the rest of the elders of the exile, the priests, the prophets and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. 2(This was after King bJeconiah and the cqueen mother, the court officials, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen and the smiths had departed from Jerusalem.) 3The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of dHilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, saying, 4“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have esent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, 5‘ fBuild houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their ▼
▼ Lit fruit
produce. 6‘Take hwives and ▼
▼ Lit beget
become the fathers of sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there and do not decrease. 7‘ jSeek the ▼
▼ Or peace
welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and lpray to the Lord on its behalf; for in its ▼
▼ Or peace
welfare you will have ▼
▼ Or peace
welfare.’ 8“For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Do not let your oprophets who are in your midst and your diviners pdeceive you, and do not listen to ▼
▼ Lit your
 , rthe dreams which ▼
▼ Lit you
they dream. 9‘For they tprophesy falsely to you in My name; uI have not sent them,’ declares the Lord.

10“For thus says the Lord, ‘When vseventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My wgood word to you, to bring you back to this place. 11‘For I know the xplans that I ▼
▼ Lit am planning
have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for zwelfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a aahope. 12‘Then you will abcall upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will aclisten to you. 13‘You will adseek Me and find Me when you aesearch for Me with all your heart. 14‘I will be affound by you,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will agrestore your ▼
▼ Or captivity
fortunes and will aigather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will ajbring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.’

15“Because you have said, ‘The Lord has raised up akprophets for us in Babylon’— 16for thus says the Lord concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who did alnot go with you into exile— 17thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Behold, I am sending upon them the amsword, famine and pestilence, and I will make them like ansplit-open figs that cannot be eaten due to rottenness. 18‘I will pursue them with the sword, with famine and with pestilence; and I will aomake them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a apcurse and a horror and a aqhissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them, 19because they have arnot listened to My words,’ declares the Lord, ‘which I sent to them again and again by asMy servants the prophets; but you did not listen,’ declares the Lord. 20“You, therefore, hear the word of the Lord, all you exiles, whom I have atsent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.

21“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who are auprophesying to you falsely in My name, ‘Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will slay them before your eyes. 22‘Because of them a avcurse will be ▼
▼ Lit taken
used by all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon, saying, “May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon axroasted in the fire, 23because they have ayacted foolishly in Israel, and azhave committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives and have baspoken words in My name falsely, which I did not command them; and I am He who bbknows and am a witness,” declares the Lord.’”

24To bcShemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying, 25“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have sent bdletters in your own name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to beZephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying, 26“The Lord has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to be the ▼
▼ Lit overseers
 , bgoverseer in the house of the Lord over every bhmadman who biprophesies, to bjput him in the stocks and in the iron collar, 27now then, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of bkAnathoth who prophesies to you? 28“For he has blsent to us in Babylon, saying, ‘The exile will be bmlong; bnbuild houses and live in them and plant gardens and eat their ▼
▼ Lit fruit
produce.’”’”

29 bpZephaniah the priest read this letter ▼
▼ Lit in the ears of
to Jeremiah the prophet. 30Then came the word of the Lord to Jeremiah, saying, 31“Send to brall the exiles, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord concerning bsShemaiah the Nehelamite, “Because Shemaiah has btprophesied to you, although I did not send him, and he has bumade you trust in a lie,” 32therefore thus says the Lord, “Behold, I am about to bvpunish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his ▼
▼ Lit seed
descendants; he will bxnot have anyone living among this people, byand he will not see the good that I am about to do to My people,” declares the Lord, “because he has ▼
▼ Lit spoken
 , capreached rebellion against the Lord.”’”
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