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CHAP. XXIX.
1 Ieremiah sendeth a letter to the captiues in Babylon, to be quiet there, 8 and not to beleeue the dreames of their prophets, 10 and that they shall returne with grace, after seuentie yeeres. 15 He foretelleth the destruction of the rest for their disobedience. 20 He sheweth the fearefull end of Ahab and Zedekiah, two lying prophets. 24 Shemaiah writeth a letter against Ieremiah. 30 Ieremiah readeth his doome.
2 (After that Ieconiah the king, and the queene, and the eunuches, the princes of Iudah and Ierusalem, and the carpenters and the smithes were departed from Ierusalem)2
5 Build ye houses and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eate the fruit of them.
8 ¶ For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Let not your prophets and your diuiners, that bee in the midst of you, deceiue you, neither hearken to your dreames which yee cause to be dreamed.8
9 For they prophecie falsly vnto you in my name: I haue not sent them, saith the Lord.9
10 ¶ For thus saith the Lord, That after seuentie yeeres be accomplished at Babylon, I will visite you, and performe my good word towards you, in causing you to returne to this place.10
11 For I knowe the thoughts that I thinke towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of euill, to giue you an expected end.11
12 Then shall ye call vpon me, and ye shall goe and pray vnto mee, and I will hearken vnto you.12
13 And ye shall seeke me, and finde me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
15 ¶ Because yee haue said, The Lord hath raised vs vp prophets in Babylon:
17 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Beholde, I will send vpon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figges, that cannot be eaten, they are so euill.17
18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliuer them to be remooued to all the kingdomes of the earth, to be a curse and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproch among all the nations, whither I haue driuen them.18
19 Because they haue not hearkened to my words, saith the Lord, which I sent vnto them by my seruants the Prophets, rising vp early, and sending them, but ye would not heare, saith the Lord.19
24 ¶ Thus shalt thou also speake to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying:24
26 The Lord hath made thee Priest in the stead of Iehoiada the Priest, that ye should be Officers in the house of the Lord, for euery man that is madde, and maketh himselfe a Prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stockes:26
29 And Zephaniah the Priest read this letter in the eares of Ieremiah the Prophet.
30 ¶ Then came the word of the Lord vnto Ieremiah, saying;
32 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his seed: he shall not haue a man to dwell among this people, neither shall hee behold the good that I will doe for my people, saith the Lord, because he hath taught rebellion against the Lord.32
Jeremiah Chapter 29 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible):
2 2.King. 24.12, &c. , Or, chamberleines.
8 Chap.14. 14. and 23. 21. and 27. 15.
9 Hebr. in a lie.
10 2.Chron. 36.22, ezra 1.1. chap. 25. 12. and 27.22. dan. 9.2.
11 Hebr ende and expectation.
12 Dan.9.
17 Chap.24. 8,10. , Chap.24. 8.
18 Hebr. for a curse.
19 Chap. 25. 4. and 32. 3.
24 Or, dreamer.
26 2.King.9. 11. acts.26. 24.
32 Chap.28. 16. , Hebr. reuolt.
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