“ Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite,d saying, ”
A narrative showing the effects of Jeremiah’s letter. Shemaiah the leader of the false prophets wrote to Zephaniah, urging him to restrain the prophet’s zeal with the prison and the stocks. Jere...
Jeremiah 29. The Future of the Exiles in Babylon ( c . 595). Jeremiah sends a letter by royal messengers to tell the exiles in Babylon to settle down there for a lengthy stay, and not to be deceive...
Nehelamite: or, dreamer.
Here Jeremiah prophesies respecting a third person, who had written a letter to the priests and to the whole people against himself, and had expostulated with the chief priest and with others,...
Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying, Speak to Shemaiah - Zephaniah was the second priest, sagan, or chief priest's deputy, and Seraiah, high priest, when Jerusalem was tak...
Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying, A second communication which Jeremiah sent to Babylon after the messengers who carried his first letter had brought a letter from...
1-14. Jeremiah's letter to the exiles. Release after seventy years.
Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite. — It is clear that this section ( Jeremiah 29:24-32 ) is of the nature of a fragment attached to the Epistle to Babylon on account of its asso...
CHAPTER X CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE EXILES Jeremiah 29:1-32 "Jehovah make thee like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire."- Jeremiah 29:22 NOTHING further is said a...
As a result of this false prophesying, Jeremiah sent a letter to the exiles. It is evident that they also were disturbed. The letter instructed them, first, concerning their present position, advisin...
I cannot help admiring the gracious providence of God over the Church, in that the events which took place in one age, so exactly corresponds to what takes place in another: as if to prove to God's f...
[Thus] shalt thou speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite ,.... Or, "the dreamer" h; because he pretended to have dreams from the Lord; or because what he delivered as prophecies were mere dreams; as that...
Jeremiah 29:24 [Thus] shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying, Ver. 24. Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite. ] Or, Dreamer, dream wright, enthusiast; suc...
Thus shalt thou speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite Or, the dreamer , as the word הנחלמי, is rendered in the margin: see Jeremiah 29:8 . The termination, however, rather shows it to be a word expres...
The Malice of Shemaiah; The Doom of Shemaiah. B. C. 596. 24 Thus shalt thou also spe...
OLBHeb; We have no guidance from any other scripture to teach us who this Shemaiah was, but it is very probable that he was one of those who at this time were in the captivity of Babylon, and so c...
Jeremiah's Letter To The Exiles ( Jeremiah 29:1-32 ). Correspondence by letter was a constant feature of those days, and indicates that the world was not static (compare the prophetic letters from...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the Chapter. —This letter and its transmission are usually dated the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign (because of chap. Jeremiah 28:1 ), but Jeremiah...
Jeremiah 29:10 . After seventy years. See Jeremiah 26:1 . Zechariah fixes the captivity at the same number of years, and he flourished sometime after Jeremiah's death. No doubt the captivity was...
EXPOSITION Despised and rejected at home, Jeremiah turned his thoughts to those distant brethren in captivity, whom he had already likened to "good figs, very good" ( Jeremiah 24:3 , Jeremiah 2...
Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah, the Nehelamite, a false prophet not mentioned elsewhere, saying,
Jeremiah 29:31 ; Jeremiah 29:32 ; Jeremiah 29:8
Nehelamite — It is probable there was such a place as Nehelam, from whence he was.