Jeremiah 29:2

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

(This letter was sent after King Jehoiachin, the queen mother, the officials and the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the carpenters, and the metalworkers had been taken from Jerusalem.)

Cross References

Jeremiah 27:20

He didn’t take them away when he took Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king of Judah away as a prisoner. Nebuchadnezzar also took other important people away from Judah and Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 28:4

I will also bring the king of Judah, Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, back to this place. And I will bring back all the people of Judah that Nebuchadnezzar forced to leave their homes and go to Babylon,’ says the Lord. ‘So I will break the yoke that the king of Babylon put on the people of Judah.’”

Jeremiah 24:1

The Lord showed me these things: I saw two baskets of figs arranged in front of the Temple of the Lord. (I saw this vision after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took Jehoiachin as a prisoner. Jehoiachin, the son of King Jehoiakim, and all his important officials were taken away from Jerusalem. They were taken to Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar also took away all the carpenters and metalworkers of Judah.)

2 Kings 20:18

The Babylonians will take your sons, and your sons will become officers in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

2 Kings 9:32

Jehu looked up at the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at Jehu.

1 Samuel 13:19

There were no blacksmiths in Israel. The Philistines would not allow them because they were afraid the Israelites would make iron swords and spears.

Jeremiah 13:18

Tell these things to the king and his wife, “Come down from your thrones. Your beautiful crowns have fallen from your heads.”

Jeremiah 38:7

But a man named Ebed Melech heard that the officials had put Jeremiah into the cistern. Ebed Melech was from Ethiopia, and he was a eunuch in the king’s palace. King Zedekiah was sitting at the Benjamin Gate, so Ebed Melech left the king’s palace and went to talk to the king at the gate.

Jeremiah 29:20

“You people are captives. I forced you to leave Jerusalem and go to Babylon. So listen to the message from the Lord.”