Tree of Life Version
Jeremiah 29:15
15For you have said: “Adonai has raised up prophets for us in Babylon.”
Jeremiah 29:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Because ye have said, The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
- New International Version (NIV)You may say, “The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,”
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Because you have said, 'The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,'
- New King James Version (NKJV)Because you have said, “The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon”—
Context of Jeremiah 29:15
13You will seek Me and find Me, when you will search for Me with all your heart. 14Then I will be found by you,” says Adonai, “and I will return you from exile, and gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,” says Adonai, “and I will bring you back to the place from which I removed you as captives into exile.” For you have said: “Adonai has raised up prophets for us in Babylon.” 16For thus says Adonai about the king who sits on the throne of David and about all the people who dwell in this city, your kinsmen who did not go with you into captivity, 17thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “I am about to send on them the sword, famine and pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.
Read all of Jeremiah 29Jeremiah 29:15 word by word
כִּ֖י אֲמַרְתֶּ֑ם הֵקִ֨ים לָ֧נוּ יְהוָ֛ה נְבִאִ֖ים בָּבֶֽלָה׃ סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Jeremiah 29:15
- Jeremiah 29:8For thus says Adonai, the God of Israel: “Do not let your prophets who are among you or your diviners beguile you, and pay no attention to the dreams which you make them keep dreaming.
- Jeremiah 28:1Now it was the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah son of Azzur the prophet from Gibeon spoke to me in the House of Adonai, in the presence of the kohanim and of all the people, saying,
- Ezekiel 1:1In the thirtieth year on the fifth day of the fourth month, as I was among the exiles by the river Chebar, the heavens opened, and I saw visions of God.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 29:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15Because ye have said - The Septuagint very properly insert this verse between the twentieth and the twenty-first, and thus the connection here is not disturbed, and the connection below completed.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-19Verses 8-19 Let men beware how they call those prophets whom they choose after their own fancies, and how they consider their fancies and dreams to be revelations from God. False prophets flatter people in their sins, because they love to be flattered; and they speak smoothly to their prophets, that their prophets may speak smoothly to them. God promises that they should return after seventy years were accomplished. By this it appears, that the seventy…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15False prophets were among the exiles. They promised that Jerusalem would survive and the Exile would end soon.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. Because--referring not to the preceding words, but to Jr 29:10, 11, "Jehovah saith this to you" (that is, the prophecy of the continuance of the captivity seventy years), "because ye have said, The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon," namely, foretelling our speedy deliverance (this their prophecy is supposed, not expressed; accordingly, Jr 29:16-19 contradict this false hope again, Jr 29:8, 9, 21). He, in this fifteenth verse, turns his…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 29
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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