So hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Jeremiah announces a special prophecy, but in confirmation of his former doctrine. His object is still the same, to prevent the captives, as they had begun, to listen to flatteries, and to make them feel assured that they were to bear their exile till the end of seventy years. But he speaks here of three impostors; he connects two of them together, and mentions the third by himself.
These captives rejected Jeremiah's counsel and clung to false prophets in Babylon who flattered them with lies. They even fathered this deception on God Himself, calling those deceivers His prophets. But mark it: anyone who hardens sinners and deceives them with false hopes of mercy is no prophet of God's raising up.
AI summary
Commenting on Jeremiah 29:15-23
God raised up prophets in Babylon extending His agency far beyond Judah's bounds. Yet these false prophets contradicted the true word of judgment, promising swift end to captivity while the exiles would suffer sword, famine, and pestilence until all Judah was destroyed for refusing His servants the true prophets.
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Commenting on Jeremiah 29:15-20