Jeremiah 29:7-22

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 29:1-7

We are here told, I. That Jeremiah wrote to the captives in Babylon, in the name of the Lord. Jeconiah had surrendered himself a prisoner, with the queen his mother, the chamberlains of his household, called here the eunuchs, and many of the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, who were at that time the most active men; the carpenters and smiths likewise, being demanded, were yielded up, that those who remained might not have any proper hands to fortify their city or furnish themselves with weapons... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 29:8-14

To make the people quiet and easy in their captivity, I. God takes them off from building upon the false foundation which their pretended prophets laid, Jer. 29:8, 9. They told them that their captivity should be short, and therefore that they must not think of taking root in Babylon, but be upon the wing to go back: ?Now herein they deceive you,? says God; ?they prophesy a lie to you, though they prophesy in my name. But let them not deceive you, suffer not yourselves to be deluded by them.?... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 29:15-23

Jeremiah, having given great encouragement to those among the captives whom he knew to be serious and well-affected, assuring them that God had very kind and favourable intentions concerning them, here turns to those among them who slighted the counsels and comforts that Jeremiah ministered to them and depended upon what the false prophets flattered them with. When this letter came from Jeremiah they would be ready to say, ?Why should he make himself so busy, and take upon him to advise us?... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:7

And seek the peace of the city ,.... The prosperity and happiness of Babylon, or any other city in Chaldea, were they were placed: this they were to do by prayer and supplication to God, and by all other means that might be any ways conducive to the good of the state where they were: whither I have caused you to be carried away captives ; and as long as they continued so; for being under the protection of the magistrates of it, though Heathens, they owed them submission, and were under... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:8

For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel ,.... See Gill on Jeremiah 29:4 ; let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you ; their false prophets, as the Targum; and there were many such in the captivity; see Ezekiel 13:2 ; and such who pretended to divine and foretell future things, and so impose upon the people, who were too apt to believe them; these insinuated, that in a little time they should have their liberty, and return to their... read more

John Gill

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:10

For thus saith the Lord, that after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon ,.... These seventy years are not to be reckoned from the last captivity under Zedekiah; nor from the precise present time; nor from the first of Jeconiah's captivity; but the fourth year of Jehoiakim, and the first of Nebuchadnezzar, when he first came up against Jerusalem; see Jeremiah 25:1 ; I will visit you ; in a way of mercy, by stirring up Cyrus king of Persia to grant them their liberty: and perform... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord ,.... The purposes and resolutions of his heart concerning their welfare, particularly the restoration of them to their own land; these were within him, and known to him, and him only; they were remembered by him, and continued with him, as the "thoughts of his heart are to all generations"; and so would not fail of being performed; men think and forget what they have thought of, and so it comes to nothing; but thus it is not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:12

Then shall ye call upon me ,.... When the expected end is about to be given; when God intends and is about to bestow a mercy, he gives his people a spirit of prayer to ask for it; and even the promise of it is a considerable argument to encourage and engage more to pray for it: and ye shall go and pray unto me : walk in my ways; so Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Melech; or rather ye shall go into your private closets, or into those public places where prayer was wont to be made, and there put... read more

John Gill

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

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