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Therefore build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.&#8217&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/29.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Jeremiah sent a letter here to Babylon, predicting that our captivity will be a long one. He said, ‘Build homes, and plan to stay. Plant gardens, and eat the food they produce.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/jeremiah/29.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, “Your exile will be long; build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their produce.”’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/29.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />For he has sent to us in Babylon, claiming: Since the exile will be lengthy, build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat their produce.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/29.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />For therefore he sent unto us <i>in</i> Babylon, saying, This <i>captivity is</i> long: build ye houses, and dwell <i>in them</i>; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/jeremiah/29.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />For he has sent to us <i>in</i> Babylon, saying, ‘This <i>captivity is</i> long; build houses and dwell <i>in them,</i> and plant gardens and eat their fruit.’ ”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/jeremiah/29.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />seeing that he has sent <i>word</i> to us in Babylon, saying, ‘The exile will be long; build houses and live <i>in them,</i> and plant gardens and eat their produce’?”’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/29.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, &#8216The exile will be long; build houses and live in them and plant gardens and eat their produce.&#8217"&#8217&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/jeremiah/29.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, ‘<i>The exile</i> will be long; build houses and live <i>in them</i> and plant gardens and eat their produce.’”’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/jeremiah/29.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, ‘<i>The exile</i> will be long; build houses and live <i>in them</i> and plant gardens and eat their fruit.’”’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/jeremiah/29.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />For he has sent <i>word</i> to us in Babylon, saying, <i>‘This captivity</i> [of yours] will be long; build houses and live <i>in them</i> and plant gardens and eat their fruit.’”’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/jeremiah/29.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />For he has sent word to us in Babylon, claiming, “The exile will be long. Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat their produce.” ’ ”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/jeremiah/29.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />For he has sent word to us in Babylon, claiming, &#8220The exile will be long. Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat their produce."&#8217&#8221 <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/jeremiah/29.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />forasmuch as he hath sent unto us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/jeremiah/29.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />He even wrote a letter to the people here in Babylonia, saying we would be here a long time. He told us to build homes and to plant gardens and grow our own food. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/jeremiah/29.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />forasmuch as he hath sent unto us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/jeremiah/29.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />That's why Jeremiah sent this message to us in Babylon: You will be captives a long time. Build houses, and live in them. Plant gardens, and eat what they produce.'"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/jeremiah/29.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />He must be stopped because he told the people in Babylonia that they would be prisoners there a long time and should build houses, settle down, plant gardens, and eat what they grow." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/jeremiah/29.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />So he sent a message to us in Babylon: 'The exile will be long, so build houses and live in them. Plant gardens and eat their produce.'"'"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/jeremiah/29.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />For he has sent to us in Babylon, claiming: Since the exile will be lengthy, build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat their produce.??<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/jeremiah/29.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />For he has even sent a message to us here in Babylon. He wrote and told us, "You will be there a long time. Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat what they produce."'" <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/jeremiah/29.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, "The captivity is long: build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat their fruit?"'"'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/jeremiah/29.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />For therefore he sent to us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/jeremiah/29.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long. Build houses, and dwell in them. Plant gardens, and eat their fruit?”’” <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/jeremiah/29.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Because that he has sent to us [in] Babylon, saying, It [is] long, build houses and abide; and plant gardens and eat their fruit.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/jeremiah/29.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Because that he hath sent unto us to Babylon, saying, It is long, build ye houses, and abide; and plant ye gardens, and eat their fruit.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/jeremiah/29.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />For, for this, he sent to us in Babel, saying, This is long: build ye houses, and inhabit; plant gardens, and eat their fruit.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/jeremiah/29.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For he hath also sent to us in Babylon, saying: It is a long time: build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant gardens, and eat the fruits of them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/jeremiah/29.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />For about this, he has sent to us in Babylon, saying: It is a long time. Build houses and live in them. And plant gardens, and eat from their fruits.’ ”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/jeremiah/29.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />For he sent this message to us in Babylon: It will be a long time; build houses to live in; plant gardens and eat their fruit. . ..”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/29.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />For he has actually sent to us in Babylon, saying, “It will be a long time; build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat what they produce.”<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/jeremiah/29.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, You shall remain there for a long time; therefore, build houses and dwell in them; and plant gardens and eat the fruit of them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/jeremiah/29.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />For behold, he sent to us in Babel: "You shall be there long. Build households and dwell and plant gardens and eat their produce"<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/jeremiah/29.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />forasmuch as he hath sent unto us in Babylon, saying: The captivity is long; build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/jeremiah/29.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Did he not send for this purpose? for in the course of this month he sent to you to Babylon, saying, It is far off: build ye houses, and inhabit <i>them</i>; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/29-28.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5k55c51ZGhs?start=8796" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/29.htm">Shemaiah's Letter Against Jeremiah</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">27</span>So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who poses as a prophet among you? <span class="reftext">28</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">For</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3651.htm" title="3651: kên (Adv) -- So, thus. From kuwn; properly, set upright; hence just; but usually rightly or so."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7971.htm" title="7971: šā·laḥ (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To send. A primitive root; to send away, for, or out.">he has sent</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’ê·lê·nū (Prep:: 1cp) -- To, into, towards. ">to us</a> <a href="/hebrew/894.htm" title="894: bā·ḇel (N-proper-fs) -- From balal; confusion; Babel, including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire.">in Babylon,</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: lê·mōr (Prep-l:: V-Qal-Inf) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">claiming:</a> <a href="/hebrew/1931.htm" title="1931: hî (Pro-3fs) -- He, she, it. ">Since the exile</a> <a href="/hebrew/752.htm" title="752: ’ă·ruk·kāh (Adj-fs) -- Long. From 'arak; long.">will be lengthy,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1129.htm" title="1129: bə·nū (V-Qal-Imp-mp) -- To build. A primitive root; to build.">build</a> <a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: ḇāt·tîm (N-mp) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">houses</a> <a href="/hebrew/3427.htm" title="3427: wə·šê·ḇū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-Imp-mp) -- A primitive root; properly, to sit down; by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry.">and settle down;</a> <a href="/hebrew/5193.htm" title="5193: wə·niṭ·‘ū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-Imp-mp) -- To plant. A primitive root; properly, to strike in, i.e. Fix; specifically, to plant.">plant</a> <a href="/hebrew/1593.htm" title="1593: ḡan·nō·wṯ (N-fp) -- A garden. Feminine of gan; a garden.">gardens</a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: wə·’iḵ·lū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-Imp-mp) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat.">and eat</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/6529.htm" title="6529: pə·rî·hen (N-msc:: 3fp) -- Fruit. From parah; fruit.">their produce.’”</a> </span><span class="reftext">29</span>(Zephaniah the priest, however, had read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet.)…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Jeremiah 25:11-12</a></span><br />And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years. / But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/27-16.htm">Jeremiah 27:16-22</a></span><br />Then I said to the priests and to all this people, “This is what the LORD says: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Look, very soon now the articles from the house of the LORD will be brought back from Babylon.’ They are prophesying to you a lie. / Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin? / If they are indeed prophets and the word of the LORD is with them, let them now plead with the LORD of Hosts that the articles remaining in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, not be taken to Babylon. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/24-5.htm">Jeremiah 24:5-7</a></span><br />“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. / I will keep My eyes on them for good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them. / I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/daniel/9-2.htm">Daniel 9:2</a></span><br />in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-20.htm">2 Chronicles 36:20-21</a></span><br />Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power. / So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezra/1-1.htm">Ezra 1:1-4</a></span><br />In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows: / “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah. / Whoever among you belongs to His people, may his God be with him, and may he go to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/1-8.htm">Nehemiah 1:8-9</a></span><br />Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, / but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/44-28.htm">Isaiah 44:28</a></span><br />who says of Cyrus, ‘My shepherd will fulfill all that I desire,’ who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be rebuilt,’ and of the temple, ‘Let its foundation be laid.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/45-13.htm">Isaiah 45:13</a></span><br />I will raise up Cyrus in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild My city and set My exiles free, but not for payment or reward, says the LORD of Hosts.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/11-16.htm">Ezekiel 11:16-17</a></span><br />Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.’ / Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the countries to which you have been scattered, and I will give back to you the land of Israel.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/36-24.htm">Ezekiel 36:24-28</a></span><br />For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land. / I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. / I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zechariah/7-5.htm">Zechariah 7:5</a></span><br />“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/1-17.htm">Matthew 1:17</a></span><br />In all, then, there were fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/21-24.htm">Luke 21:24</a></span><br />They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/7-6.htm">Acts 7:6-7</a></span><br />God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. / ‘But I will punish the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come forth and worship Me in this place.’</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">For therefore he sent to us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/29-5.htm">Abide</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-22.htm">Babylon</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-5.htm">Build</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-5.htm">Building</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-22.htm">Captivity</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-16.htm">Dwell</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-5.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-16.htm">Exile</a> <a href="/jeremiah/16-13.htm">Forasmuch</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-5.htm">Fruit</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-5.htm">Gardens</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-5.htm">Houses</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-5.htm">Live</a> <a href="/jeremiah/27-4.htm">Message</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-5.htm">Plant</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-5.htm">Planting</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-5.htm">Produce</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-5.htm">Settle</a> <a href="/jeremiah/27-7.htm">Time</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-5.htm">Using</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/40-9.htm">Abide</a> <a href="/jeremiah/32-2.htm">Babylon</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-4.htm">Build</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-38.htm">Building</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-31.htm">Captivity</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-32.htm">Dwell</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-5.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/jeremiah/30-16.htm">Exile</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-32.htm">Forasmuch</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-5.htm">Fruit</a> <a href="/amos/4-9.htm">Gardens</a> <a href="/jeremiah/32-15.htm">Houses</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-24.htm">Live</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-31.htm">Message</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-5.htm">Plant</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-5.htm">Planting</a> <a href="/ezekiel/17-8.htm">Produce</a> <a href="/jeremiah/40-9.htm">Settle</a> <a href="/jeremiah/30-7.htm">Time</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-5.htm">Using</a><div class="vheading2">Jeremiah 29</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-1.htm">Jeremiah sends a letter to the captives in Babylon to be quiet there,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-8.htm">and not to believe the dreams of their prophets;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">10. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-10.htm">and that they shall return with grace after seventy years.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-15.htm">He foretells the destruction of the rest for their disobedience.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">20. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-20.htm">He shows the fearful end of Ahab and Zedekiah, two false prophets.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">24. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-24.htm">Shemaiah writes a letter against Jeremiah.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">30. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/jeremiah/29-30.htm">Jeremiah foretells his doom.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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Jeremiah, a prophet during the time of the Babylonian exile, communicated God's instructions to the Israelites who had been taken captive. The historical context is the Babylonian captivity, which began in 597 BC when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon conquered Jerusalem and deported many of its inhabitants. This message was crucial as it came from a prophet recognized by the people, providing divine guidance during a time of uncertainty and displacement.<p><b>Since the exile will be lengthy,</b><br>Jeremiah's message was a direct contradiction to the false prophets who were claiming that the exile would be short-lived. The historical context here is significant, as many exiles hoped for a quick return to Jerusalem. Jeremiah, however, prophesied that the exile would last 70 years (<a href="/jeremiah/29-10.htm">Jeremiah 29:10</a>), emphasizing the need for the people to adjust to their new circumstances. This period was part of God's judgment on Judah for their disobedience, but it also served as a time for the people to turn back to God.<p><b>build houses and settle down;</b><br>This instruction was practical and symbolic. Building houses and settling down indicated that the exiles should prepare for a long stay in Babylon. It was a call to stability and acceptance of their current situation. Culturally, this was a significant shift, as the Israelites were being encouraged to integrate into Babylonian society to some extent, while still maintaining their identity and faith. This also reflects God's sovereignty and His plans for His people, even in foreign lands.<p><b>plant gardens and eat their produce.</b><br>This phrase suggests self-sufficiency and a degree of prosperity even in exile. Planting gardens and eating their produce implies that the exiles should not only survive but thrive in Babylon. This instruction aligns with the biblical principle of seeking the welfare of the city where they were exiled (<a href="/jeremiah/29-7.htm">Jeremiah 29:7</a>). It also foreshadows the eventual return and restoration of the Israelites, as they would need to maintain their cultural and religious practices, including dietary laws, even while in a foreign land. This can be seen as a type of Christ, who provides sustenance and life even in difficult circumstances, pointing to the spiritual nourishment found in Him.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/j/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a></b><br>A prophet called by God to deliver messages to the people of Judah, including warnings of impending exile and promises of future restoration.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/b/babylon.htm">Babylon</a></b><br>The empire that conquered Judah and took many of its inhabitants into exile. It represents a place of judgment but also a place where God’s people are called to live and thrive temporarily.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/e/exile.htm">Exile</a></b><br>The period during which the people of Judah were taken captive to Babylon. It was a time of punishment for their disobedience but also a time for reflection and growth.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/h/houses_and_gardens.htm">Houses and Gardens</a></b><br>Symbolic of settling down and making the best of a difficult situation. It reflects God’s instruction to the exiles to live productive lives even in captivity.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/h/hananiah.htm">Hananiah</a></b><br>A false prophet who contradicted Jeremiah by claiming the exile would be short. His message was one of false hope, leading people away from God’s true plan.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/e/embrace_god's_timing.htm">Embrace God’s Timing</a></b><br>Understand that God’s plans may not align with our desires for immediate relief or change. Trust in His timing and purpose.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/thrive_where_you_are_planted.htm">Thrive Where You Are Planted</a></b><br>Even in difficult circumstances, God calls us to be productive and contribute positively to our surroundings.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/d/discern_true_from_false_messages.htm">Discern True from False Messages</a></b><br>Be wary of messages that promise easy solutions or quick fixes. Seek God’s truth through His Word and prayer.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_in_god's_promises.htm">Hope in God’s Promises</a></b><br>Remember that God’s plans are for our welfare, even when we face trials. Hold onto His promises for a future and a hope.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/l/live_faithfully_in_exile.htm">Live Faithfully in Exile</a></b><br>Like the exiles in Babylon, Christians are called to live faithfully in a world that is not their ultimate home, reflecting God’s love and truth.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_jeremiah_29.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Jeremiah 29</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_'high_time_to_awake'_mean.htm">What is God's plan for my life?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/can_hananiah's_short_exile_prophecy_be_trusted.htm">In Jeremiah 28:1-4, how can Hananiah's prophecy of a short Babylonian captivity be trusted given the historical evidence of a much longer exile?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_exile_numbers_in_jeremiah.htm">How do we reconcile the differing numbers of exiles listed in Jeremiah 52:28-30 with other biblical accounts?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_wasn't_hananiah_rejected_immediately.htm">In Jeremiah 28:6-9, why did the people not reject Hananiah immediately if his prophecy contradicted Jeremiah and Deuteronomy 18:22 on false prophets?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/jeremiah/29.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(28) <span class= "bld">This captivity is long . . .</span>--As the italics show, there is no word corresponding to "captivity" in the Hebrew, and some commentators render the words, <span class= "ital">It is far off </span>. . . as though Jeremiah had counted on the distance of Babylon as enabling him to write the letter with impunity, or possibly in all the emphasis of abruptness. "All is a long way off--the end of your exile, your present distance from your native land, and haste, therefore, is but folly."<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/29.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 28.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">For therefore</span>, etc.; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> the consequence of Jeremiah's not having been kept within bounds by authority is that he has even ventured, in his fanatical zeal, to trouble the exiles in Babylon. <span class="cmt_word">This captivity is long</span>; rather, <span class="accented">It</span> (<span class="accented">is</span>) <span class="accented">long</span>; a more forcible expression. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/jeremiah/29-28.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">For</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(kî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">he has sent</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׁלַ֥ח</span> <span class="translit">(šā·laḥ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7971.htm">Strong's 7971: </a> </span><span class="str2">To send away, for, out</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to us</span><br /><span class="heb">אֵלֵ֛ינוּ</span> <span class="translit">(’ê·lê·nū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | first person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> </span><span class="str2">Near, with, among, to</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[in] Babylon,</span><br /><span class="heb">בָּבֶ֥ל</span> <span class="translit">(bā·ḇel)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_894.htm">Strong's 894: </a> </span><span class="str2">Babylon -- an eastern Mediterranean empire and its capital city</span><br /><br /><span class="word">claiming:</span><br /><span class="heb">לֵאמֹ֖ר</span> <span class="translit">(lê·mōr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> </span><span class="str2">To utter, say</span><br /><br /><span class="word">The exile</span><br /><span class="heb">הִ֑יא</span> <span class="translit">(hî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1931.htm">Strong's 1931: </a> </span><span class="str2">He, self, the same, this, that, as, are</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will be long.</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲרֻכָּ֣ה</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·ruk·kāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_752.htm">Strong's 752: </a> </span><span class="str2">Long</span><br /><br /><span class="word">So build</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּנ֤וּ</span> <span class="translit">(bə·nū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1129.htm">Strong's 1129: </a> </span><span class="str2">To build</span><br /><br /><span class="word">houses</span><br /><span class="heb">בָתִּים֙</span> <span class="translit">(ḇāt·tîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> </span><span class="str2">A house</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and settle down;</span><br /><span class="heb">וְשֵׁ֔בוּ</span> <span class="translit">(wə·šê·ḇū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3427.htm">Strong's 3427: </a> </span><span class="str2">To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry</span><br /><br /><span class="word">plant</span><br /><span class="heb">וְנִטְע֣וּ</span> <span class="translit">(wə·niṭ·‘ū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5193.htm">Strong's 5193: </a> </span><span class="str2">To strike in, fix, to plant</span><br /><br /><span class="word">gardens</span><br /><span class="heb">גַנּ֔וֹת</span> <span class="translit">(ḡan·nō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1593.htm">Strong's 1593: </a> </span><span class="str2">A garden</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and eat</span><br /><span class="heb">וְאִכְל֖וּ</span> <span class="translit">(wə·’iḵ·lū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_398.htm">Strong's 398: </a> </span><span class="str2">To eat</span><br /><br /><span class="word">their produce.’”</span><br /><span class="heb">פְּרִיהֶֽן׃</span> <span class="translit">(pə·rî·hen)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6529.htm">Strong's 6529: </a> </span><span class="str2">Fruit</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/29-28.htm">Jeremiah 29:28 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/jeremiah/29-28.htm">Jeremiah 29:28 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/jeremiah/29-28.htm">Jeremiah 29:28 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/jeremiah/29-28.htm">Jeremiah 29:28 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/jeremiah/29-28.htm">Jeremiah 29:28 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/29-28.htm">Jeremiah 29:28 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/29-28.htm">Jeremiah 29:28 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/29-28.htm">Jeremiah 29:28 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/29-28.htm">Jeremiah 29:28 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/jeremiah/29-28.htm">Jeremiah 29:28 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/jeremiah/29-28.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 29:28 Because he has sent to us (Jer.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/29-27.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 29:27"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 29:27" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/29-29.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 29:29"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 29:29" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>