Because you may say, “The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,”
The Lord refers back to the seventy-year captivity He had proclaimed. These captives contradicted Him by saying He had raised up prophets in Babylon foretelling their speedy deliverance. He now shifts His address from the godly to the ungodly and their false prophets.
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Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised up for us prophets in Babylon; (g) As Ahab, Zedekiah and Shemaiah.
The particle כי appears twice here: first as causal, then as illative. This connection makes sense if we refer to what precedes it, the Jews were not to hope for return until seventy years had passed. The verse stands in its proper place and should not be removed, as some have done.
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