jeremiah-29:8-11

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

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

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

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:8

Verse 8 As the minds of almost all were taken up, as we have seen, with that vain and false confidence which they had imbibed from false prophecies, that they should return after two years, the Prophet gives this answer, and reminds them to beware of such impostures. And thus we see that it is not sufficient for one simply to teach what is right, except he also restores from error those who have been already deceived or are in danger of being deceived. For to assert the truth is only one-half... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:9

Verse 9 He confirms what he had said by this reason, that they ran without being called, according to what we found in Jeremiah 23:21. He then repudiates these false prophets, for they spoke not from the mouth of God. But the difference was rendered very obscure and indistinct, when they pompously alleged the name of God and professed that they brought forward nothing but what they had learnt from him; yet as we have elsewhere said, no one can be deceived except willingly and knowingly; for God... read more

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 29:9

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

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

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 29:9

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