Jeremiah 29
29These are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders of the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.H1697H5612H3414H5030H7971H3389H3499H2205H1473H3548H5030H5971H5019H1540H3389H8942This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the eunuchs, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metal workers had departed from Jerusalem.H310H3204H4428H1377H5631H8269H3063H3389H2796H4525H3318H33893The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. It said:H3027H501H1121H8227H1587H1121H2518H6667H4428H3063H7971H894H5019H4428H894H5594"Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:H559H3068H6635H430H3478H1473H1540H3389H8945Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce.H1129H1004H3427H5193H1593H398H65296Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.H3947H802H3205H1121H1323H3947H802H1121H5414H1323H582H3205H1121H1121H7235H45917But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.H1875H7965H5892H1540H6419H3068H7965H79658For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream,H559H3068H6635H430H3478H5030H7080H7130H5377H8085H2472H24929for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you in my name; I did not send them, declares the LORD.H5012H8267H8034H7971H5002H306810"For thus says the LORD: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place.H559H3068H6310H7657H8141H4390H894H6485H6965H2896H1697H7725H472511For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.H3045H4284H2803H5002H3068H4284H7965H7451H5414H8615H31912Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.H7121H1980H6419H808513You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.H1245H4672H1875H382414I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.H4672H5002H3068H7725H7622H7622H6908H1471H4725H5080H5002H3068H7725H4725H154015"Because you have said, 'The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,'H559H3068H6965H5030H89416thus says the LORD concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your kinsmen who did not go out with you into exile:H559H3068H4428H3427H3678H1732H5971H3427H5892H251H3318H147317'Thus says the LORD of hosts, behold, I am sending on them sword, famine, and pestilence, and I will make them like vile figs that are so rotten they cannot be eaten.H559H3068H6635H7971H2719H7458H1698H5414H8182H8384H398H745518I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,H7291H310H2719H7458H1698H5414H2189H2113H4467H776H423H8047H8322H2781H1471H508019because they did not pay attention to my words, declares the LORD, that I persistently sent to you by my servants the prophets, but you would not listen, declares the LORD.'H8085H1697H5002H3068H7971H5650H5030H7925H7971H8085H5002H306820Hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles whom I sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon:H8085H1697H3068H1473H7971H3389H89421'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall strike them down before your eyes.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H256H1121H6964H6667H1121H4641H5012H8267H8034H5414H3027H5019H4428H894H5221H586922Because of them this curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon: "The LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,"H3947H7045H1546H3063H894H559H3068H7760H6667H256H4428H894H7033H78423because they have done an outrageous thing in Israel, they have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and they have spoken in my name lying words that I did not command them. I am the one who knows, and I am witness, declares the LORD.'"H6213H5039H3478H6213H5003H7453H802H1696H8267H1697H8034H6680H3045H5707H5002H306824To Shemaiah of Nehelam you shall say:H559H8098H5161H55925"Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You have sent letters in your name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,H559H3068H6635H430H3478H559H7971H5612H8034H5971H3389H6846H1121H4641H3548H3548H55926'The LORD has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to have charge in the house of the LORD over every madman who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and neck irons.H3068H5414H3548H3077H3548H6496H1004H3068H376H7696H5012H5414H4115H672927Now why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth who is prophesying to you?H1605H3414H6069H501228For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, "Your exile will be long; build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their produce."'"H7971H894H559H1931H752H1129H1004H3427H5193H1593H398H652929Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.H6846H3548H7121H5612H241H3414H503030Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:H1697H3068H3414H55931"Send to all the exiles, saying, 'Thus says the LORD concerning Shemaiah of Nehelam: Because Shemaiah had prophesied to you when I did not send him, and has made you trust in a lie,H7971H1473H559H559H3068H8098H5161H8098H5012H7971H982H826732therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah of Nehelam and his descendants. He shall not have anyone living among this people, and he shall not see the good that I will do to my people, declares the LORD, for he has spoken rebellion against the LORD.'"H559H3068H6485H8098H5161H2233H376H3427H8432H5971H7200H2896H6213H5971H5002H3068H1696H5627H3068
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