Jeremiah 29:28 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 29:28

For he has sent to us in Babylon, claiming: Since the exile will be lengthy, build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat their produce.’”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

forasmuch as he hath sent unto us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?

KJV

For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

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Commentary

1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Jeremiah had said that it would come, and the event had already proved him in the right, which obliged them to give credit to him who now said that it would be long, rather than to those who said that it would be short, but had once before been found liars. He demands judgment against him, taking it for granted that he is mad, and makes himself a prophet.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
עַל־	'al-	since	H5921 →
כֵּ֞ן	ken	<thus>	H3651 →
שָׁלַ֥ח	sha.Lach	he has sent	H7971 →
אֵלֵ֛ינוּ	'e.Lei.nu	to us	H413 →
בָּבֶ֥ל	ba.Vel	Babylon	H894 →
לֵאמֹ֖ר	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →
אֲרֻכָּ֣ה	'a.ru.Kah	[will be] a long [time]	H752 →
הִ֑יא	Hi'	it	H1931 →
בְּנ֤וּ	be.Nu	build	H1129 →
בָתִּים֙	va.Tim	houses	H1004 →
וְשֵׁ֔בוּ	ve.She.vu	and dwell	H3427 →
וְנִטְע֣וּ	ve.nit.'U	and plant	H5193 →
גַנּ֔וֹת	ga.Not	gardens	H1593 →
וְאִכְל֖וּ	ve.'ikh.Lu	and eat	H398 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
פְּרִיהֶֽן׃	pe.ri.Hen	produce their	H6529 →

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The walk

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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
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.
leads to
- 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.
- Jeremiah 24:6–7
  I will keep My eyes on them for good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.
- 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?
- Jeremiah 27:22
  ‘They will be carried to Babylon and will remain there until the day I attend to them again,’ declares the LORD. ‘Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.’”
- Jeremiah 32:42–44
  For this is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I will bring on them all the good I have promised them.
Through
Jeremiah 29:1
This is the text of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets, and all the others Nebuchadnezzar had carried…
leads to
- Esther 9:20
  Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in all the provinces of King Xerxes, both near and far,
- Jeremiah 29:25–29
  this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah,…
- Acts 15:23
  and sent them with this letter: The apostles and the elders, your brothers, To the brothers among the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings.