Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Jeremiah 29

Jer 29:1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;

carried away captives

Cf. 2Ki 24:10-16. The complete captivity of Judah came eleven years later (2Ki 25:1-7).

Jer 29:2 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)

Jeconiah the king

Jer 22:26; 2Ki 24:12.

Jer 29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

pray unto the LORD for…peace

Ezr 6:10; 1Ti 2:2.

Jer 29:8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.

deceive you

Jer 14:14; 23:21; 27:14, 15; Eph 5:6.

Jer 29:10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon

Jer 25:12; 27:22; 2Ch 36:21, 22; Ezr 1:1; Dan 9:2.

Jer 29:12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

Then shall ye call upon me

Dan 9:3.

Jer 29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

ye shall seek me, and find me

Lev 26:39, 40, 42; Deu 30:1-3.

Jer 29:14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

I will be found of you

Deu 4:7; Psa 32:6; 46:1; Isa 55:6.

I will gather you

Jer 23:3, 8; 30:3; 32:37.

Jer 29:18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:

deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth

Jer 15:4; 24:9; 34:17; Deu 28:25; 2Ch 29:8.

Jer 29:22 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;

a curse

See Gen 48:20; Isa 65:15.

whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire

Dan 3:6.

Jer 29:25 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest

Jer 21:1; 2Ki 25:18.

Jer 29:26 The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.

mad

2Ki 9:11; Act 26:24.