29Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the remainder of the elders who were carried away captive—to the priests, the prophets, and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon.H1697H5612H3414H5030H7971H3389H3499H2205H1473H3548H5030H5971H5019H1540H3389H8942(This happened after Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths 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, saying,H3027H501H1121H8227H1587H1121H2518H6667H4428H3063H7971H894H5019H4428H894H5594Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who were carried away captive, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:H559H3068H6635H430H3478H1473H1540H3389H8945Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.H1129H1004H3427H5193H1593H398H65296Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters—that you may be increased there, and not diminished.H3947H802H3205H1121H1323H3947H802H1121H5414H1323H582H3205H1121H1121H7235H45917And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the LORD for it; for in its peace you will have peace.H1875H7965H5892H1540H6419H3068H7965H79658For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H5030H7080H7130H5377H8085H2472H24929For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says the LORD.H5012H8267H8034H7971H5002H306810For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place.H559H3068H6310H7657H8141H4390H894H6485H6965H2896H1697H7725H472511For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.H3045H4284H2803H5002H3068H4284H7965H7451H5414H8615H31912Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.H7121H1980H6419H808513And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.H1245H4672H1875H382414I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.H4672H5002H3068H7725H7622H7622H6908H1471H4725H5080H5002H3068H7725H4725H154015Because you have said, "The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon"—H559H3068H6965H5030H89416therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, concerning all the people who dwell in this city, and concerning your brethren who have not gone out with you into captivity—H559H3068H4428H3427H3678H1732H5971H3427H5892H251H3318H147317thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.H559H3068H6635H7971H2719H7458H1698H5414H8182H8384H398H745518And I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence; and I will deliver them to trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth—to be a curse, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,H7291H310H2719H7458H1698H5414H2189H2113H4467H776H423H8047H8322H2781H1471H508019because they have not heeded My words, says the LORD, which I sent to them by My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; neither would you heed, says the LORD.H8085H1697H5002H3068H7971H5650H5030H7925H7971H8085H5002H306820Therefore hear the word of the LORD, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon.H8085H1697H3068H1473H7971H3389H89421Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in My name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall slay them before your eyes.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H256H1121H6964H6667H1121H4641H5012H8267H8034H5414H3027H5019H4428H894H5221H586922And because of them a curse shall be taken up by all the captivity of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, "The LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire";H3947H7045H1546H3063H894H559H3068H7760H6667H256H4428H894H7033H78423because they have done disgraceful things in Israel, have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken lying words in My name, which I have not commanded them. Indeed I know, and am a witness, says the LORD.H6213H5039H3478H6213H5003H7453H802H1696H8267H1697H8034H6680H3045H5707H5002H306824You shall also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,H559H8098H5161H55925Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying: You have sent letters in your name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, 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, so that there should be officers in the house of the LORD over every man who is demented and considers himself a prophet, that you should put him in prison and in the stocks.H3068H5414H3548H3077H3548H6496H1004H3068H376H7696H5012H5414H4115H672927Now therefore, why have you not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth who makes himself a prophet to you?H1605H3414H6069H501228For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, 'This captivity is long; build houses and dwell in them, and plant gardens and eat their fruit.'"H7971H894H559H1931H752H1129H1004H3427H5193H1593H398H652929Now Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.H6846H3548H7121H5612H241H3414H503030Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying:H1697H3068H3414H55931Send to all those in captivity, saying, Thus says the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I have not sent him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie—H7971H1473H559H559H3068H8098H5161H8098H5012H7971H982H826732therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his family: he shall not have anyone to dwell among this people, nor shall he see the good that I will do for My people, says the LORD, because he has taught rebellion against the LORD.H559H3068H6485H8098H5161H2233H376H3427H8432H5971H7200H2896H6213H5971H5002H3068H1696H5627H3068
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