Jeremiah 29:1-9 NIV

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:9

For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name ,.... They pretended to have the authority of God for what they said; that their prophecies and dreams were from him, and as such they delivered them in his name; though they were false ones; that they might be the better received by the people: I have not sent them, saith the Lord ; they had no mission or commission from the Lord, no warrant or authority from him; they set up themselves; and ran without being sent; and prophesied out of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:1

Now these are the words of the letter - This transaction took place in the first or second year of Zedekiah. It appears that the prophet had been informed that the Jews who had already been carried into captivity had, through the instigations of false prophets, been led to believe that they were to be brought out of their captivity speedily. Jeremiah, fearing that this delusion might induce them to take some hasty steps, ill comporting with their present state, wrote a letter to them, which... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:4

Thus saith the Lord of hosts - This was the commencement of the letter. read more

Adam Clarke

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:8

Neither hearken to your dreams - Rather, dreamers; for it appears there was a class of such persons, who not only had acquired a facility of dreaming themselves, but who undertook to interpret the dreams of others. 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 Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:4

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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:8

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

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