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Jeremiah 29:23 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 29 · verse 23
Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.Jeremiah 29:23 · King James Version
Jeremiah 29:23 in context
21Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;
22And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
23Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.
24Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,
25Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- neighbours'rêaʻan associateH7453 →
- committedʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- adulterynâʼaphto commit adulteryH5003 →
- villanynᵉbâlâhfoolishnessH5039 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- spokendâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
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Jeremiah, having given great encouragement to those among the captives whom he knew to be serious and well-affected, assuring them that God had very kind and favourable intentions concerning them, here turns to those among them who slighted the counsels and comforts that Jeremiah ministered to them and depended upon…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 15-23