Jeremiah 29:2-4

Contemporary English Version

Jeremiah's Letter to the People of Judah in Babylonia

29 ^1-2^(A) I had been left in Jerusalem when King Nebuchadnezzar^[a] took many of the people of Jerusalem and Judah to Babylonia as prisoners, including King Jehoiachin,^[b] his mother, his officials, and the metal workers and others in Jerusalem who were skilled in making things. So I wrote a letter to the priests, the prophets, the leaders, and the rest of our people in Babylonia. ³I gave the letter to Elasah and Gemariah,^[c] two men that King Zedekiah^[d] of Judah was sending to Babylon to talk with Nebuchadnezzar. In the letter, I wrote ⁴that the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, had said:

I had you taken from Jerusalem to Babylonia. Now I tell you

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Footnotes

29.1,2 Nebuchadnezzar: See the note at 21.2.
29.1,2 Jehoiachin: Hebrew “Jeconiah” (see the note at 24.1).
29.3 Elasah and Gemariah: Hebrew “Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah.”
29.3 Zedekiah: See the note at 1.3.