Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 29:15
Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised up for us (g) prophets in Babylon;
(g) As Ahab, Zedekiah and Shemaiah.
Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised up for us (g) prophets in Babylon;
(g) As Ahab, Zedekiah and Shemaiah.
Verse Jeremiah 29:15. _BECAUSE YE HAVE SAID_] The _Septuagint_ very properly insert this verse between the _twentieth_ and the _twenty-first_, and thus the _connexion_ here is not disturbed, and the c...
JEREMIAH 29. THE FUTURE OF THE EXILES IN BABYLON (_c_. 595). Jeremiah sends a letter by royal messengers to tell the exiles in Babylon to settle down there for a lengthy stay, and not to be deceived b...
This _v_. naturally links with Jeremiah 29:21 ff., while the intervening _vv_. make an apparent severance in the logical connexion, and are absent from LXX, except in a certain recension (Lucianic), w...
The impending fate of Zedekiah and his people. Cp. Jeremiah 24:8-10....
5. _Refutation of the false prophets in Babylon_ (Jeremiah 29:15-20) TRANSLATION (15) Because you have said, The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon(16) Surely, thus says the LORD unto the...
Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon; BECAUSE YE HAVE SAID - referring not to the preceding words, but to Jeremiah 29:10, 'Yahweh saith this to you' (i:e., the pro...
1-14. Jeremiah's letter to the exiles. Release after seventy years....
BECAUSE YE HAVE SAID, THE LORD HATH RAISED US UP PROPHETS... — The words point to the boast of some of the exiles, that they, too, had the guidance of prophets whom, as in Jeremiah 29:20; Jeremiah 29:...
כִּ֖י אֲמַרְתֶּ֑ם הֵקִ֨ים לָ֧נוּ יְהוָ֛ה נְבִאִ֖ים...
CHAPTER X CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE EXILES Jeremiah 29:1 "Jehovah make thee like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire."- Jeremiah 29:22 NOTHING further is said about the pr...
As a result of this false prophesying, Jeremiah sent a letter to the exiles. It is evident that they also were disturbed. The letter instructed them, first, concerning their present position, advising...
_Said. Expressing your confidence in Providence; or rather, if we join this with what follows, he rebukes them for trusting in false prophets, who represented their condition as worse than that of the...
That the Church might perfectly consider and understand the cause of this Captivity: and that in general sins there should be general calamities, the Lord declares the same or similar evils, for those...
Many interpreters connect the first of these verses with the preceding ones, and they seem not to think so without reason; for the reason given is not unsuitable, if we refer to what the Prophet had s...
On the other hand the prophet comforts those who, by the judgment of God, were subjected to the yoke which He had imposed upon them. The Jews in Babylon should dwell in peace, quietly seeking the welf...
BECAUSE YE HAVE SAID,.... That is, some of them; for here the Lord, by the prophet, turns from the godly among the captives, whom he had been advising, encouraging, and comforting before, to those who...
Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon; Ver. 15. _Because ye have said._] From the heirs of the promises he turneth his speech to others, _qui praesumendo sperant, et sp...
_Because ye have said_, &c. The LXX. have transposed this verse, and placed it “where,” says Blaney, “it undoubtedly ought to stand,” immediately before Jeremiah 29:21; “this emendation,” says he, “I...
Because ye have said, The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon, literally, "as far as Babylon," the people of Judah insisting that the ministry of the prophets extended far beyond the confines o...
JEREMIAH'S LETTER TO THE EXILES AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. The Contents of the Letter. Just as certain false prophets in Jerusalem had tried to arouse and maintain false hopes in the inhabitants of the ca...
8-19 Let men beware how they call those prophets whom they choose after their own fancies, and how they consider their fancies and dreams to be revelations from God. False prophets flatter people in...
The prophet here turneth his speech to some wicked Jews that were in Babylon, or in Judea, and more believed some false prophets, who told them of a much quicker return, than Jeremiah telling them the...
Jeremiah 29:15 said H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 up H6965 (H8689) prophets H5030 Babylon H894...
THEY ARE THEREFORE NOT TO LISTEN TO THE FALSE PROPHETS AS, RATHER THAN EXPERIENCING QUICK RESTORATION, ZEDEKIAH AND JERUSALEM ARE DOOMED BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT LISTENED TO YHWH'S WORDS (JEREMIAH 29:15)...
JEREMIAH'S LETTER TO THE EXILES (JEREMIAH 29:1). Correspondence by letter was a constant feature of those days, and indicates that the world was not static (compare the prophetic letters from Shemaiah...
CONTENTS: Message to the Jews of the first captivity. Action against false prophets. Destruction foretold. CHARACTERS: Jeremiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Jeconiah, Elasah, Gemariah, Ahab, Zedekiah, Shemaiah,...
Jeremiah 29:10. _After seventy years._ See Jeremiah 26:1. Zechariah fixes the captivity at the same number of years, and he flourished sometime after Jeremiah's death. No doubt the captivity was exact...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—This letter and its transmission are usually dated the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign (because of chap. Jeremiah 28:1), but Jeremiah 29:2...
EXPOSITION Despised and rejected at home, Jeremiah turned his thoughts to those distant brethren in captivity, whom he had already likened to "good figs, very good" (Jeremiah 24:3, Jeremiah 24:5). He...
Now Jeremiah sent this letter, chapter 29, to those Jews that were in Babylon. And, of course, this letter was sent to them and one of the chief of the princes that was in Babylon was Daniel. So Danie...
Ezekiel 1:1; Ezekiel 1:3; Jeremiah 28:1; Jeremiah 29:8; Jeremiah 29:9
Because — The prophet here turns his speech to some wicked Jews, that were in Babylon, or in Judea....