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Jeremiah 29:8-9 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 29 · verses 8–9
8For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. 9For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.Jeremiah 29:8-9 · King James Version
Jeremiah 29:8-9 in context
6Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
7And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
8For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
9For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.
10For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- prophetsnâbîyʼa prophet or inspired manH5030 →
- divinersqâçamproperly, to distributeH7080 →
- prophesynâbâʼto prophesyH5012 →
- deceivenâshâʼto lead astrayH5377 →
- hearkenshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
- falselysheqeran untruthH8267 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- saithʼâmarto sayH559 →
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To make the people quiet and easy in their captivity, I. God takes them off from building upon the false foundation which their pretended prophets laid, Jer 29:8, Jer 29:9.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-14