Jeremiah 29:18

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 29:18

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 Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:18

Verse 18 He goes on with the same subject, — that he would not cease to consume them with pestilence, famine, and the sword, until he wholly destroyed them, according to what we find in the twenty-fourth chapter. He repeats what is in that chapter; but the words are taken from the twenty-eighth chapter of Deuteronomy, and from the twenty-ninth. The prophets, we know, drew the substance of their doctrine from the fountain of the Law, and, strictly speaking, brought forward nothing new, but... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 29:1-32

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 29:15-23

Jeremiah's denunciation of two leading false prophets at Babylon, with a digression on the fate of Zedekiah and Jerusalem. Some eminent critics maintain that verses 16-20 are an interpolation, and this view is certainly supported By the omission of these verses in the Septuagint. It must also in fairness be admitted that the natural connection of verse 15 is with verse 21, not with verse 16. But it does not follow that verses 16-20 are an arbitrary interpolation. They may be regarded either as... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 29:16-20

These verses are not in the Septuagint. But the text of the Septuagint is here throughout so brief and confused as to be explicable only on the supposition, that it represents what was left behind in Egypt when Jeremiah died, copied probably with extreme haste, and with no opportunity of careful collation afterward. On the other hand the Hebrew text represents no hurried transcript, but the original manuscript, and is especially trustworthy in the case of these letters sent to Babylon (see also... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 29:16-19

Jeremiah 29:16-19. Thus saith the Lord of the king and all the people, &c. See Jeremiah 24:8-10; that dwell in this city Namely, the city of Jerusalem, which is the city spoken of. I will make them like vile figs Rather like sour figs, that cannot be eaten The meaning is, I will deal with them as men deal with bad figs. They have made themselves vile and hateful, and I will use them accordingly. This refers to the vision, chap. 24., and the prophecy which we had there upon it. ... read more

Donald C. Fleming

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

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 29:18

with. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "and with". removed. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:25 , the same word). read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 29:18

18. removed to all . . . kingdoms— (Jeremiah 15:4; Deuteronomy 28:25). curse, c.— (Jeremiah 29:6 Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 19:8). read more

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