Jeremiah 29:10 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 29:10

For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.

BSB

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ASV

For thus saith Jehovah, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

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Jerome

St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER NINE (420)

[Daniel 9:2] "I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years concerning which the word of the Lord had come to the prophet Jeremiah, that seventy years would be accomplished for the desolation of Jerusalem." Jeremiah had predicted seventy years for the desolation of the Temple (Jeremiah 29:1-10), at the end of which the people would again return to Judaea and build the Temple and the city of Jerusalem. But this fact did not render Daniel careless, but rather encouraged him to pray that God might through his supplications fulfil that which He had graciously promised.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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 Jer 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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

This proves that the seventy years date from Jeconiah's captivity, not from the last captivity. The specification of time was to curb the impatience of the Jews lest they should hasten before God's time. good word--promise of a return.

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּֽי־	ki-	that	H3588 →
כֹה֙	khoh	thus	H3541 →
אָמַ֣ר	'a.Mar	he says	H559 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
כִּ֠י	ki	if	H3588 →
לְפִ֞י	le.Fi	to [the] mouth	H6310 →
מְלֹ֧את	me.Lot	<of> will be completed	H4390 →
לְבָבֶ֛ל	le.va.Vel	for Babylon	H894 →
שִׁבְעִ֥ים	shiv.'Im	seventy	H7657 →
שָׁנָ֖ה	sha.Nah	year[s]	H8141 →
אֶפְקֹ֣ד	'ef.Kod	I will give attention to	H6485 →
אֶתְכֶ֑ם	'et.Khem	<obj.> you	H853 →
וַהֲקִמֹתִ֤י	va.ha.ki.mo.Ti	and I will carry out	H6965 →
עֲלֵיכֶם֙	'a.lei.Khem	on you	H5921 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
דְּבָרִ֣י	de.va.Ri	word my	H1697 →
הַטּ֔וֹב	ha.Tov	<the> good	H2896 →
לְהָשִׁ֣יב	le.ha.Shiv	by bringing back	H7725 →
אֶתְכֶ֔ם	'et.Khem	<obj.> you	H853 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הַמָּק֖וֹם	ha.ma.Kom	the place	H4725 →
הַזֶּֽה׃	ha.Zeh	<the> this	H2088 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Daniel 9:2
in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
leads to
- Jeremiah 25:11–12
  And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
- 2 Chronicles 36:21
  So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.
- Zechariah 7:5
  “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
- Revelation 1:3
  Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and obey what is written in it, because the time is near.
- 2 Peter 1:19–21
  We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day…
Through
Zechariah 7:5
“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
leads to
- Zechariah 1:12
  Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”
- Isaiah 58:4–6
  You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.
Through
Jeremiah 25:12
But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting…
leads to
- Isaiah 13:19
  And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.

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06About Jeremiah

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Where the connections lead

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About Jeremiah