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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 29:24-28

Jeremiah’s letter to Shemaiah in Babylon 29:24-28Jeremiah wrote another letter, this time in response to a letter that the false prophet Shemaiah in Babylon wrote to Zephaniah the priest and the Judahites still in Jerusalem. Jeremiah quoted Shemaiah’s letter, and it fills most of this section (Jeremiah 29:26-28). Shemaiah’s letter was a response to Jeremiah’s first letter to the exiles (Jeremiah 29:1-23). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 29:25-26

This man had sent letters in his own name, not in Yahweh’s name, to Zephaniah ben Maaseiah the priest, the other priests, and the people in Jerusalem. He had told them that the Lord wanted Zephaniah to be the priest in charge of order in the temple instead of Jehoiada, the authorized priest. [Note: Zephaniah ben Maaseiah consulted Jeremiah twice for King Zedekiah (Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 37:3). He was then or later became the priest who was second in command in the temple (Jeremiah 52:24). He... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 29:27-28

Shemaiah also reproved Zephaniah for not rebuking Jeremiah, because Jeremiah had written the exiles encouraging them to settle down in Babylon (Jeremiah 29:4-7).This pericope does not record what the Lord said would happen to Shemaiah as punishment for what he did; Jeremiah 29:25 has no apodosis. We must assume that divine judgment would come on him. The main reason for this pericope is to expose the wicked advice Shemaiah was giving, not to explain the judgment he would receive. The next... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 29:29

Zephaniah the priest read Shemaiah’s letter to Jeremiah. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 29:29-32

Jeremiah’s second letter to the exiles 29:29-32After Zephaniah had read Shemaiah’s letter to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 29:29), the Lord moved Jeremiah (Jeremiah 29:30) to write a second letter to the exiles (Jeremiah 29:31-32). read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:1-32

1-14. Jeremiah’s letter to the exiles. Release after seventy years.1. Prophets] The exiles in Babylon had also false prophets, e.g. Ahab and Zedekiah (Jeremiah 29:21), and Shemaiah (of Jeremiah 29:24) among them. But they were on the whole of a better class (see Jeremiah 24:5-7), and the prophet might hope that his words would have more effect. 2. Carpenters] RV ’craftsmen.’4-7. They are not to sit loose to the land of their exile, but to make homes for themselves there. Else they will soon... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 29:25

(25) Because thou hast sent letters in thy name . . .—The letters were probably sent through the envoys named in Jeremiah 29:3 on their return from Babylon. Their object was to urge Zephaniah, who appears in 2 Kings 25:18 as the Sagan, or second priest, to exercise his authority to restrain Jeremiah from prophesying, and to punish him as a false prophet. It was an attempt to turn the tables on him for the manner in which he had thwarted the plans of the party of revolt at Babylon. The part... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 29:26

(26) The Lord hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada . . .—The priest so named had apparently been deposed, as not favouring the stringent policy of the party of revolt. As Sagan, it was probably his special duty to maintain order in the Temple, and punish pretenders to the gift of prophecy, and the letter reproaches him for his lukewarm timidity in discharging that duty. In the word “mad,” as in 2 Kings 9:11, Hosea 9:7, we have the habitual term of scorn applied to such pretenders. On... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 29:28

(28) This captivity is long . . .—As the italics show, there is no word corresponding to “captivity” in the Hebrew, and some commentators render the words, It is far off . . . as though Jeremiah had counted on the distance of Babylon as enabling him to write the letter with impunity, or possibly in all the emphasis of abruptness. “All is a long way off—the end of your exile, your present distance from your native land, and haste, therefore, is but folly.” read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 29:29

(29) And Zephaniah the priest . . .—The fact thus related agrees with what has been said as to the character of Zephaniah. He does not act as Shemaiah wished him. At the most he only uses the letters as a threat, possibly to put the prophet on his guard against the machinations of his enemies, possibly also to induce him to moderate his tone. We are reminded of the like conduct of the Pharisees who reported Herod’s threats to our Lord, in Luke 13:31. read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 29:24-28

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 29:25-26

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 29:27-28

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 29:29

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 29:29-32

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:1-32

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 29:25

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 29:26

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 29:28

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 29:29

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