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Jeremiah 29:15
Because you may say, “The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jeremiah addresses the Judean exiles in Babylon, speaking immediately after promising their future restoration and just before addressing those who remained in Jerusalem. He confronts a specific claim the captives were making about their spiritual status.
The words — The verb אֲמַרְתֶּ֑ם ('a.mar.Tem) means "you have said," and הֵקִ֨ים (he.Kim) means "he has raised up." These terms frame the exiles' assertion that Yahweh has established prophets to legitimize their permanent residence in Babylon.
The thread — The contradiction of false prophets appears in Jeremiah 28:1, where a prophet opposes Jeremiah's message, and Jeremiah 29:8, where God explicitly warns against deception by such figures. The exilic prophetic setting parallels Ezekiel 1:1, where divine revelation occurs among the captives by the Kebar River.
Why it lands — The text requires readers to test every prophetic claim against God's established word rather than accepting messages that provide false comfort. It demands active rejection of any spiritual assurance that contradicts divine timing and purpose.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Because ye have said, The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 28:1 In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:
- Jeremiah 29:8 For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Do not be deceived by the prophets and diviners among you, and do not listen to the dreams you elicit from them.
- Ezekiel 1:1 In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the River Kebar, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God.
- Ezekiel 1:3 the word of the LORD came directly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Kebar. And there the LORD’s hand was upon him.