(After that Jeconiah the King, and the [a]Queen, and the eunuchs, the (A)princes of Judah, and of Jerusalem, and the workmen, and cunning men were departed from Jerusalem)

By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah [b]sent unto Babel to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel) saying,

Thus hath the Lord of hosts the God of Israel spoken unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have [c]caused to be carried away captives from Jerusalem unto Babel:

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 29:2 Meaning, Jeconiah’s mother.
  2. Jeremiah 29:3 To entreat of some equal conditions.
  3. Jeremiah 29:4 To wit, the Lord, whose work this was.

(This was after King Jehoiachin[a](A) and the queen mother,(B) the court officials and the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the skilled workers and the artisans had gone into exile from Jerusalem.) He entrusted the letter to Elasah son of Shaphan and to Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. It said:

This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried(C) into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 29:2 Hebrew Jeconiah, a variant of Jehoiachin