Jeremiah 29:20-23 NIV

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 29:20

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:23

Because they have committed villany in Israel ,.... Or "folly" F6 נבלה "stultitiam", V. L. Schmidt. ; as the sins of adultery, and prophesying falsely, are afterwards mentioned. This was not the reason why the king of Babylon put them to death; though the Jews F7 T. Bab. Sanhedrin. fol. 93. 1. have a tradition that they attempted the chastity of Nebuchadnezzar's daughter, for which reason he case them into a furnace; but rather it was on account of their prophesying immediate... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:20

Hear ye therefore the word - Dr. Blayney thinks there were two letters written by the prophet to the captives in Babylon, and that the first ends with this verse. That having heard, on the return of the embassy (Elasah and Gemariah, whom Zedekiah had sent to Babylon, and to whom the prophet entrusted the above letter, Jeremiah 29:3 ;), that the captives had not received his advises favourably, because they were deceived by false prophets among them, who promised them a speedier... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:21

He shall slay them before your eyes - Nebuchadnezzar would be led by political reasons to punish these pretended prophets, as their predictions tended to make his Israelitish subjects uneasy and disaffected, and might excite them to rebellion. He therefore slew them; two of them, it appears, he burnt alive, viz., Ahab and Zedekiah, who are supposed by the rabbins to be the two elders who endeavored to seduce Susanna, see Jeremiah 29:23 . Burning alive was a Chaldean punishment, Daniel 3:6... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:23

Have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives - This is supposed to refer to the case of Susanna. See above. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:20

Verse 20 Jeremiah announces a special prophecy, but in confirmation of his former doctrine. His object is still the same, to prevent the captives, as they had begun, to listen to flatteries, and to make them feel assured that they were to bear their exile till the end of seventy years. But he speaks here of three impostors; he connects two of them together, and mentions the third by himself. He directs his discourse especially to all the captives, for he deigned not to address those who... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:21

Verse 21 By saying, I will give (or deliver) them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the Prophet still more clearly expresses what I have just said, that they would be thus slain by the order of the king, because God had determined what was to be done to them. And he assigns the cause of their death or mentions its author, that the Jews might not fix their eyes on the king of Babylon. What had Nebuchadnezzar in view? to preserve a peaceable kingdom; he saw the danger of a tumult if he pardoned... read more

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

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

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:23

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:20

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:21

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