While Jeremiah 29:11 is the most popular verse when talking about God’s plans for us, plenty of other verses share similar messages. Some of our favorite Bible verses include: “Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end, you will be counted among the wise. Many are the pl...
Jeremiah 29:25 tn Heb“letters.” Though GKC 397 §124.b, n. 1 denies it, this is probably a case of the plural of extension. For a similar usage see Isa 37:14, where the plural “letters” is referred to later as an “it.” Even if there were other “letters,” the focus is...
At the same time, God is very much concerned about individual people and their accountability to him. Jeremiah's emphasis in this regard (see, e.g.,31:29-30) is similar to that of Ezekiel (seeEze 18:2-4), and the two men have become known as the "prophets of individual responsibili...
The new covenant appears to be similar to the ancient Near Eastern covenants of grant, whereby a great king gave a loyal vassal a grant of land or dynastic dominion over a realm in perpetuity in recognition of past loyalty. The right to such was perpetual as long as the great king ...
Zohar Amar, a researcher at the Bar-Ilan University Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies announced that the process to extract this color had been discovered from the a coccid, a scale insect discovered in Neve Tzuf, similar to another coccid located in Upper Galilee. This ...
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Jeremiah 11:16 tn Heb“The Lord once called you….” This is another example of the rapid shift in person that is common to Hebrew style but not common in English and could lead to confusion for some readers. Here and in the verses that follow the person has been shifted to first pers...
Jeremiah 44:4 tn See 7:13 for an explanation of this idiom and compare 7:25; 25:4; 26:5; 29:19; 35:15 for similar references to the persistent warnings of the prophets. Jeremiah 44:4 tn Heb“sent…over again, saying, ‘Do not do this terrible thing that I hate.’” The indire...
Jeremiah 44:4tnSee7:13for an explanation of this idiom and compare7:25;25:4;26:5;29:19;35:15for similar references to the persistent warnings of the prophets. Jeremiah 44:4tnHeb“sent…over again, saying, ‘Do not do this terrible thing that I hate.’” The indirect quote has been...
”Verses 13-14are generally treated as a separate oracle addressed to Jerusalem. The basis for this is (1) the appropriateness of the description here to the city of Jerusalem; (2) the rather similar reference to Jerusalem smugly living in her buildings made from cedars of Lebanon in22:23;...