Jeremiah 29:15-32

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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 29:24-32

We have perused the contents of Jeremiah's letter to the captives in Babylon, who had reason, with a great deal of thanks to God and him, to acknowledge the receipt of it, and lay it up among their treasures. But we cannot wonder if the false prophets they had among them were enraged at it; for it gave them their true character. Now here we are told concerning one of them, I. How he manifested his malice against Jeremiah. This busy fellow is called Shemaiah the Nehelamite, the dreamer (so the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:15

Because ye have said ,.... That is, some of them; for here the Lord, by the prophet, turns from the godly among the captives, whom he had been advising, encouraging, and comforting before, to those who gave heed to the false prophets, who promised them a speedy return to their own land, and which they believed; and therefore rejected and despised the prophecies of Jeremiah, and others: the Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon ; and therefore stood in no need of other prophets that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:16

Know that thus saith the Lord ,.... Or "for", or "wherefore thus saith the Lord" F24 כי כה אמר "nam sic ait", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius; "ideo", Calvin; "ita namque", Schmidt. ; for the word "know" is not in the text, and seems needless; though it is also supplied by other interpreters F25 "Scitote quod", Vatablus. . The words are illative, and follow upon the former; and the sense is, that since they gave heed to their false prophets in Babylon, who... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:17

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, behold, I will send upon them the sword ,.... The sword of the Chaldeans, by which many of them should fall, as they did. The Targum is, "I will send upon them those that kill with the sword:' who, though they were prompted to come against the Jews, through a natural and ambitious desire of conquering and plundering, yet were sent of God; nor would they have come, had he not willed and suffered it: the famine and the pestilence ; to destroy others that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:18

And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine , and with the pestilence ,.... Or, "follow after F1 ורדפתי אחריהם "et persequar post eos", Calvin, Piscator. them"; such as should make their escape out of the city, and go into Egypt, or other countries, for shelter and safety, should be pursued by the vengeance of God, and should fall by sword, famine, or pestilence, in other places: and will deliver them ; such as should not perish by the above mentioned... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:19

Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the Lord ,.... Which were spoken to them by the prophets; not hearkening to them, but despising them, were the same as not hearkening to him, and despising him; contempt of God, and his word, was the cause of their ruin; see 2 Chronicles 36:15 ; which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets ; such as Hosea, Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah, and others: rising up early, and sending them ; which denotes the frequency of their mission;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:20

Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord ,.... What he was now about to say concerning their false prophets: all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon ; all that were carried captive along with Jeconiah. Some parts of this letter are directed to one sort of the captives, and others to another sort of them; some being good men, some bad; but what follows all are called upon to observe, good and bad; it being a prediction of a certain event, which they would see... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:21

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel ,.... See Gill on Jeremiah 29:4 ; of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you : two false prophets, of whom we have no account any where else but here; and are, no doubt, the prophets, or however two of them, that they of the captivity boasted of that God had raised unto them in Babylon, Jeremiah 29:15 . The Jews F3 R. Gedaliah Shalshelet Hakabala, fol. 80. 1. say, and so Jerom... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:22

And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon ,.... A form of cursing; when they cursed anyone, or wished him ill, it should be in such like manner as follows; so odious and detestable would these men be afterwards to them, whom they, at least some of them, took to be the prophets of the Lord: saying, the Lord make thee like Zedekiah, and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire ; or "burnt them" F4 קלם "combussit",... read more

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