The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Jeremiah 28:14 (NKJV)
For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him. I have given him the beasts of the field also.” ’ ”

 

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Jeremiah 28:15 (NIV)

Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, ‘Listen, Hananiah! The Lord has not sent you,
yet you have persuaded this nation to trust in lies.

 

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Jeremiah 28:16 (NIV)

Therefore this is what the Lord says: “I am about to remove you from the face of the earth.
This very year you are going to die, because you have preached rebellion against the Lord.”’

 

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Jeremiah 28:17 (NIV)

In the seventh month of that same year, Hananiah the prophet died.

 

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Jeremiah 29:1 (ESV)
These are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders of the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

 

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Jeremiah 29:2 (ESV)
This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the eunuchs, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metal workers had departed from Jerusalem.

 

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Jeremiah 29:3 (NASB)

The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah,
whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, saying,

 

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Jeremiah 29:4 (NASB)

“This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile
from Jerusalem to Babylon:

 

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Jeremiah 29:5 (NKJV)
Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit

 

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Jeremiah 29:6 (BSB)
Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.

 

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Jeremiah 29:7 (NIV)

Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile.
Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.”

 

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Jeremiah 29:8 (NIV)

Yes, this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you.
Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have.

 

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Jeremiah 29:9 (NKJV)
For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says the LORD.

 

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Jeremiah 29:10 (NASB)
“For this is what the LORD says: ‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place.

 

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Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

 

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Jeremiah 29:12

Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

 

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Jeremiah 29:13

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

 

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Jeremiah 29:14

I will be found by you,” declares the LORD, “and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the LORD, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”

 

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Jeremiah 29:15 (ESV)
“Because you have said, ‘The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,’

 

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Jeremiah 29:16 (BSB)
this is what the LORD says about the king who sits on David’s throne and all the people who remain in this city, your brothers who did not go with you into exile—