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Jeremiah 29 is the twenty-ninth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It is numbered as Jeremiah 36 in the Septuagint. This book compiles prophecies attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This chapter records several "letters reported by the third ...
Baruch Writes Jeremiah's Prophecies (Gustave Doré). According to the text of the letter, the author is the biblical prophet Jeremiah.The biblical Book of Jeremiah itself contains the words of a letter sent by Jeremiah "from Jerusalem" to the "captives" in Babylon (Jeremiah 29:1–23).
This verse is sometimes used to attack various church traditions. Traditions handed down by the apostles are defended by St. Paul who tells the Thessalonians to honor them (2 Thess 2:14). Other traditions of more modern origin are more debatable, since they may or may not be opposed to the Divine law.
The verse is setting up a quotation from Jeremiah 31:15 that appears in the next verse. Brown notes that the Old Syriac Sinaiticus states incorrectly that the quotation is from Isaiah . Isaiah is the Old Testament source Matthew most often refers to, but the verse in Matthew 2:18 clearly comes from Jeremiah.
The word translated as fool is the Greek moros, which has a similar meaning to the Aramaic reka. However moros also was used to mean godless, and thus could be much more severe a term than reka. The reading of godless can explain why the punishment is more severe. [11] Jesus uses the term himself in Matthew 23:17 when he is deriding the Pharisees.
Jeremiah 19:1–13: the acquisition of a clay jug and the breaking of the jug in front of the religious leaders of Jerusalem. [38] Jeremiah 27 –28: The wearing of an oxen yoke and its subsequent breaking by a false prophet, Hananiah. Jeremiah 32:6–15: The purchase of a field in Anathoth for the price of seventeen silver shekels. [39]
Jeremiah 27 is the twenty-seventh chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. The material found in Jeremiah 27 is found in Jeremiah 34 in the Septuagint, which orders some material differently. This book contains prophecies attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the ...
Jeremiah was said to have been appointed to reveal the sins of the people and the punishment to come. [23] [24] Jeremiah resisted the call by complaining that he was only a child and did not know how to speak, [25] but the Lord placed the word in Jeremiah's mouth, [26] commanding "Get yourself ready!"