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carried away from Jerusalem to
Babylon:
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gardens and eat their fruit. Take wives 29:14 I will be found by you. The Lord would
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answer their prayer by returning the Jews to
and beget sons and daughters; and their land, Daniel’s example and God’s
take wives for your sons and give your response (Dan. 9:4–27). Fulfillment would
daughters to husbands, so that they occur in the era of Ezra and Nehemiah, and
may bear sons and daughters—that beyond this in even fuller measure after the
you may be increased there, and not Second Advent of their Messiah (Dan. 2:35,45;
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diminished. And seek the peace of the 7:13,14,27; 12:1–3,13).
city where I have caused you to be
carried away captive, and pray to the
LORD for it; for in its peace you will the earth—to be a curse, an
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have peace. For thus says the LORD of astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach
hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your among all the nations where I have
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prophets and your diviners who are in driven them, because they have not
your midst deceive you, nor listen to heeded My words, says the LORD,
your dreams which you cause to be which I sent to them by My servants
dreamed. For they prophesy falsely to the prophets, rising up early and
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you in My name; I have not sent them, sending them; neither would you heed,
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says the LORD. says the LORD. Therefore hear the
word of the LORD, all you of the
For thus says the LORD: After seventy captivity, whom I have sent from
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years are completed at Babylon, I will Jerusalem to Babylon.
visit you and perform My good word
toward you, and cause you to return to 21 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of
this place. For I know the thoughts Israel, concerning Ahab the son of
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that I think toward you, says the LORD, Kolaiah, and Zedekiah the son of
thoughts of peace and not of evil, to Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in
give you a future and a hope. Then My name: Behold, I will deliver them
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you will call upon Me and go and pray into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king
to Me, and I will listen to you. And you of Babylon, and he shall slay them
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will seek Me and find Me, when you before your eyes. And because of
search for Me with all your heart. I them a curse shall be taken up by all
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will be found by you, says the LORD, the captivity of Judah who are in
and I will bring you back from your Babylon, saying, “The LORD make you
captivity; I will gather you from all the like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king
nations and from all the places where I of Babylon roasted in the fire”;
have driven you, says the LORD, and I 23 because they have done disgraceful
will bring you to the place from which I things in Israel, have committed
cause you to be carried away captive. adultery with their neighbors’ wives,
and have spoken lying words in My
Because you have said, “The LORD has name, which I have not commanded
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raised up prophets for us in Babylon”—
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therefore thus says the LORD says the LORD.
concerning the king who sits on the
throne of David, concerning all the 24 You shall also speak to Shemaiah the
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people who dwell in this city, and Nehelamite, saying, Thus speaks the
concerning your brethren who have not LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying:
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gone out with you into captivity— thus You have sent letters in your name to
says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will all the people who are at Jerusalem, to
send on them the sword, the famine, Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the
and the pestilence, and will make them priest, and to all the priests, saying,
like rotten figs that cannot be eaten, 26 “The LORD has made you priest
they are so bad. And I will pursue instead of Jehoiada the priest, so that
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them with the sword, with famine, and there should be officers in the house
with pestilence; and I will deliver them of the LORD over every man who is
to trouble among all the kingdoms of demented and considers himself a
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