Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:1-32
Letters to the captives in Babylon (29:1-32)In 597 BC several thousand of Jerusalem’s most capable people were taken captive to Babylon. Among them were some false prophets who began to predict, as Hananiah had done, that Babylon was about to fall and that the Judean captives were about to return to Jerusalem. Jeremiah, on hearing of this, wrote a letter to the community of captives (29:1-3).The advice Jeremiah gives to the exiles is that they settle down to a more or less permanent way of... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 29:24-28
Jeremiah 29:24-28. Thus shalt thou speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite Or, the dreamer, as the word הנחלמי , is rendered in the margin: see Jeremiah 29:8. The termination, however, rather shows it to be a word expressing Shemaiah’s family or country, and we find such a place as Helam mentioned, 2 Samuel 10:16-17. The prophet, it seems, was commanded to send this message to Shemaiah after the messengers who delivered the forementioned writing to the captives at Babylon were returned home,... read more