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3By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah,(whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,
Jeremiah 29:3 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 1-7)We are here told, I. That Jeremiah wrote to the captives in Babylon, in the name of the Lord. Jeconiah had surrendered himself a prisoner, with the queen his mother, the chamberlains of his household, called here the eunuchs , and many of the princes of Judah and Jerusalem , who were at that time the most active men; the carpenters and smiths likewise, being demanded, were yielded up, that those w...
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