Jeremiah
Jeremiah 29:15WEB·traditional attribution
Because you have said, Yahweh has raised us up prophets in Babylon;
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Reformed
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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Geneva Bible Notes Reformed
Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised up for us prophets in Babylon; (g) As Ahab, Zedekiah and Shemaiah.
John Calvin Reformed
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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