Jeremiah 29:5-14 NIV

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:13

And ye shall seek me, and find me ,.... When persons seek the Lord aright, they always find him; a God hearing prayer; a God in Christ; bestowing favours upon them; granting them his presence; indulging them in communion with him; and favouring them with fresh supplies of his grace, and everything needful for them; every mercy, temporal and spiritual; that is, when they seek him in Christ, who is the only way to the Father, under the guidance and influence of the blessed Spirit; in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:14

And I will be found of you, saith the Lord ,.... As he is; when his favour is shown, his presence is enjoyed, and the blessing sought for is obtained: and I will turn away your captivity ; this designs the captivity of Jeconiah, or of the Jews that were carried captive with him; and which had its accomplishment when the Jews returned to their own land, upon the edict of Cyrus: and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord... 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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:10

For thus saith the Lord - It has been supposed that a very serious transposition of verses has taken place here; and it has been proposed to read after Jeremiah 29:9 ; the sixteenth to the nineteenth inclusive; then the tenth, and on to the fourteenth inclusive; then the twentieth, the fifteenth, the twenty-first, and the rest regularly to the end. That after seventy years be accomplished - מלאת לפי lephi meloth , "at the mouth of the accomplishment," or "fill to the mouth."... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:11

Thoughts of peace - Here God gives them to understand, That his love was moved towards them. That he would perform his good word, his promises often repeated, to them. That for the fulfillment of these they must pray, seek, and search. That he would hearken, and they should find him; provided, 5. They sought him with their whole heart, Jeremiah 29:10-13 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:14

I will gather you from all the nations - A quotation from Deuteronomy 30:3 , and see also Deuteronomy 4:7 . 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 Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:14

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:14

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

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

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