耶利米書 29:1-7 CUNPTS

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:5

Build ye houses - Prepare for a long continuance in your present captivity. Provide yourselves with the necessaries of life, and multiply in the land, that ye may become a powerful people. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:7

Seek the peace of the city - Endeavor to promote, as far as you can, the prosperity of the places in which ye sojourn. Let no disaffection appear in word or act. Nothing can be more reasonable than this. Wherever a man lives and has his nourishment and support, that is his country as long as he resides in it. If things go well with that country, his interest is promoted by the general prosperity, he lives at comparative ease, and has the necessaries of life cheaper; and unless he is in a... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:1

Verse 1 Here the Prophet begins a new discourse, even that he not only cried out constantly at Jerusalem, that the Jews who still remained there should repent, but that he also mitigated the grief of the exiles, and exhorted them to entertain the hope of returning, provided they patiently endured the chastisement allotted to them. The design of the Prophet was at the same time twofold; for he not only intended to mitigate by comfort the sorrow of the exiles, but designed also to break down the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:2

Verse 2 He mentions the time when the book was sent, even after the calamity which had happened, when King Jeconiah and his mother were driven into exile, and Zedekiah, his successor, was made governor in his place, as we shall presently see. It was then during these beginnings of a change that Jeremiah wrote. All things were then in such a ferment, that some feared more than what was necessary, and others entertained vain hopes, as the case usually is in a disordered state of things. It was... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:3

Verse 3 This is the substance of the message, which the Prophet, no doubt, explained to them at large; but here he touches but briefly on what he wrote to the captives, even that they were patiently to endure their exile until the time of their deliverance, which was not to be such as many imagined, but such as God had fixed. Well known indeed at that time was Jeremiah’s prophecy, not only in Judea, but also to the captives, that their exile could not be completed in a shorter time than seventy... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:5

Verse 5 God commanded the captives to build houses in Chaldea, to plant vineyards, and also to marry wives, and to beget children, as though they were at home. It was not, indeed, God’s purpose that they should set their hearts on Chaldea, on the contrary, they were ever to think of their return: but until the end of the seventy years, it was God’s will that they should continue quiet, and not attempt this or that, but carry on the business of life as though they were in their own country. As... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:6

Verse 6 In bidding them to take wives for their sons, and to give their daughters in marriage, he speaks according to the usual order of nature; for it would be altogether unreasonable for young men and young women to seek partners for themselves, according to their own humor and fancy. God then speaks here according to the common order of things, when he bids young men not to be otherwise joined in marriage than by the consent of parents, and that young women are not to marry but those to whom... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:7

Verse 7 Jeremiah goes still farther, even that the Jews had been led to Babylon, on the condition of rendering willing obedience to the authority of King Nebuchadnezzar, and of testifying this by their prayers. He not only bids them patiently to endure the punishment laid on them, but also to be faithful subjects of their conqueror; he not only forbids them to be seditious, but he would have them to obey from the heart, so that God might be a witness of their willing subjection and obedience. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 29:1

The residue of the elders ; i.e. the surviving elders. Some may, perhaps, have died from natural causes, some by violence, some from grief. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 29:1-7

The letter to the captives. Notice the mention of those who bore this letter. We may conclude they were not mere messengers having no interest in the message they conveyed, but those who themselves would have much to say over and above what was written. I. GOD 'S CONSIDERATION FOR HIS PEOPLE IN THEIR CAPTIVITY . He not only means to bring that captivity to an end in his own time, but while it lasts it is to be made as little like captivity as possible. It was not enough... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:7

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:1

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:2

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:6

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 29:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 29:1-7

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