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Jeremiah 29:17
Jeremiah 29:17
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before by preaching, here by writing; there we had sermon against
sermon, here we have letter against letter, for some of the false
prophets…Jeremiah 29 — OverviewJeremiah 29 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJeremiah 29:1, Jeremiah sends a letter to the captives in Babylon to be quiet there, Jeremiah 29:8, and not to believe the dreams of their prophets; Jeremiah 29:10, and that they shall return with grace after seventy…Jeremiah 29 — OverviewJeremiah 29 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThus chapter contains a letter of Jeremiah to the captives in Babylon; and gives an account of another sent from thence by Shemaiah to the people at Jerusalem; and is closed with threatening him with punishment for so…Jeremiah 29:15-23Jeremiah 29:15-23 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleJeremiah, 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…Jeremiah 29:17Jeremiah 29:17 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThus 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…