Jeremiah 29 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments
  • Jeremiah 29:2 open_in_new

    Carpenters] RV 'craftsmen.'

    4-7. They are not to sit loose to the land of their exile, but to make homes for themselves there. Else they will soon dwindle away.

  • Jeremiah 29:11 open_in_new

    An expected end] RV 'hope in your latter end.'

    15-23. The exiles reply:—The prophets here tell us that we shall be delivered speedily. Jeremiah answers that their teaching shall soon be disproved by the overthrow of Jerusalem, and they shall themselves die miserable deaths.

  • Jeremiah 29:17 open_in_new

    Vile figs] cp. Jeremiah 24:2. The exiles would probably already know that prophecy.

    24-32. On the arrival of Jeremiah's letter at Babylon, Shemaiah had written to Zephaniah, the acting high priest (Jeremiah 52:24) at Jerusalem, to have the prophet silenced as a madman. Jeremiah, having seen the letter, writes again to denounce the writer, and foretell his punishment.