Jeremia 29:1

1 Und dies sind die Worte des Briefes, welchen der Prophet Jeremia von Jerusalem an die übriggebliebenen Ältesten der Weggeführten und an die Priester und an die Propheten und an das ganze Volk sandte, welches Nebukadnezar von Jerusalem nach Babel weggeführt hatte

Jeremia 29:1 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 29:1

Now these [are] the words of the letter that Jeremiah the
prophet sent from Jerusalem
The argument and tenor, the sum and substance, of an epistle, which the prophet Jeremiah, being at Jerusalem, wrote, under the inspiration of God, to his countrymen abroad, afterwards described; so the prophets under the Old Testament instructed the people, sometimes by their sermons and discourses delivered by word of mouth to them, and sometimes by letters and epistles; as did the apostles of the New Testament; and they were both ways useful and profitable to men: unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captive;
some perhaps dying by the way, and others quickly after they came to Babylon; some were left, who had been rulers or civil magistrates in Judea, and perhaps of the great sanhedrim: and to the priests, and to the prophets:
false prophets, as the Syriac version; for we read only of one true prophet that was carried captive, and that was Ezekiel; but of false prophets several: and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive
from Jerusalem to Babylon;
which was eleven or twelve years before their last captivity thither. This was a catholic epistle, common to all the captives of every rank and class, age or sex.

Jeremia 29:1 In-Context

1 Und dies sind die Worte des Briefes, welchen der Prophet Jeremia von Jerusalem an die übriggebliebenen Ältesten der Weggeführten und an die Priester und an die Propheten und an das ganze Volk sandte, welches Nebukadnezar von Jerusalem nach Babel weggeführt hatte

2 (nachdem der König Jekonja und die Königin, und die Kämmerer, die Fürsten von Juda und Jerusalem, und die Werkleute und die Schlosser aus Jerusalem weggezogen waren),

3 durch Eleasar, den Sohn Schaphans, und Gemarja, den Sohn Hilkijas, welche Zedekia, der König von Juda, nach Babel zu Nebukadnezar, dem König von Babel, sandte:

4 So spricht Jehova der Heerscharen, der Gott Israels, zu allen Weggeführten, die ich von Jerusalem nach Babel weggeführt habe:

5 Bauet Häuser und bewohnet sie, und pflanzet Gärten und esset ihre Frucht.