Written, Given and Read

Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon; (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;) By 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, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon; Build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them; Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished. And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.  For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD. For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive. Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon; Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of our brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity; Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them: Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD. Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon: Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes; And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire; Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives,  and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.-Jeremiah 29:1-23***Years after Joshua led his fellow Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River, and 9 1/2 of the Israelite tribes began living upon the Promised Land, and the other 2 1/2 tribes made their homes on the same side of the Jordan River that Moses and his older brother Aaron had led them through during the 40 years after Moses and Aaron led them away from Egyptian slavery, across the divinely parted Red Sea, and into the desert wilderness of Shur, according to the commands of the Lord God, the Israelites:

-were forced to serve King Chushan-rishathaim of Mesopotamia (Aram Naharaim).

-were forced to serve Eglon, king of the Moabites.

-were oppressed by King Jabin, a Canaanite ruler.

-were conquered on the east side of the Jordan River by King Hazael and were oppressed on the west side of the Jordan River, in the northern kingdom of Israel, by King Hazael and his son and successor King Ben-hadad of Syria.

-were taken captive from the east side of the Jordan River and throughout some of the northern kingdom of Israel in the Promised Land by King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria.

-were completely conquered in Samaria, the royal city of the northern nation of Israel in the Promised Land, and many Israelites were taken captive to Assyria.

-were carried into captivity by King Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian (Chaldean) army after the Babylonians invaded Judah, the southern nation in the Promised Land, and conquered Jerusalem, the royal city.

-began returning to Judah and Jerusalem less than 70 years after Jerusalem was conquered. 

Notably, many of the ancestors of the Israelites, including Abraham (Abram the Hebrew), Isaac and Jacob (Israel), and many of their descendants, including King David, the 2nd king to reign over all of the Israelites in the Promised Land, are among those listed in the biblical genealogies of Jesus the Christ, the Son of God.

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