Jeremiah 29:2

The letter appears to have been later than ch. 24, to which it plainly alludes more than once. Cp. Jeremiah 29:17 with Jeremiah 24:2; Jeremiah 24:8, and Jeremiah 29:18 with Jeremiah 24:9.

the queen-mother Nehushta. See on ch. Jeremiah 13:18.

the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths Cp. ch. Jeremiah 24:1, with note on "smiths."

were departed not merely, had surrendered, as the same verb in the Heb. means in the parallel passage, 2 Kings 24:12, but, as the amplification "the craftsmen and the smiths" here indicates, had gone into exile.