--- title: "Bullinger" description: "words: i.e. prophecies, as in Jeremiah 25:1 ; Jeremiah 26:1 ; Jeremiah 27:1 ; Jeremiah 30:1 , &c. letter = writing. residue of the elders. Compare" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/jeremiah/29" --- **words:** i.e. prophecies, as in [Jeremiah 25:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/25/1) ; [Jeremiah 26:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/26/1) ; [Jeremiah 27:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/27/1) ; [Jeremiah 30:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/1) , &c. **letter** = writing. **residue of the elders.** Compare [Ezekiel 8:1](../../../kjv/ezekiel/8/1) ; [Ezekiel 14:1](../../../kjv/ezekiel/14/1) ; [Ezekiel 20:1](../../../kjv/ezekiel/20/1) . **the prophets:** i.e. Ezekiel ([Jeremiah 1:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/1/1) ); Daniel ([Jeremiah 1:6](../../../kjv/jeremiah/1/6) ). **Nebuchadnezzar.** Same spelling as throughout [Jeremiah 2](../../../kjv/jeremiah/2) 8 and [Jeremiah 29:3](../../../kjv/jeremiah/29/3) here. Not the same as in [Jeremiah 29:21](../../../kjv/jeremiah/29/21) . **Jeconiah:** i.e. Jehoiachin. **the queen** = the queen-mother, Nehushta, the wife of Jehoiakim. Compare [Jeremiah 13:18](../../../kjv/jeremiah/13/18) . See [2 Kings 24:12](../../../kjv/2-kings/24/12) , [2 Kings 24:15](../../../kjv/2-kings/24/15) . **eunuchs** = chamberlains. **carpenters** = artificers, smiths. Compare [Jeremiah 24:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/24/1) . **Shaphan.** See note on [2 Kings 22:3](../../../kjv/2-kings/22/3) . **Zedekiah . . . sent.** Compare [Jeremiah 51:59](../../../kjv/jeremiah/51/59) . **seek the peace** = seek the welfare. Compare [Ezra 6:10](../../../kjv/ezra/6/10) . **captives.** For sixty-three years. From Jehoiachin's captivity to Cyrus (489-426 = 63). **seventy years.** See special note on [2 Chronicles 36:21](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/36/21) . **an expected end.** Figure of speech *Hendiadys.* Hebrew "an end and an expectation" = an end, yea, an end which I have caused you to hope for: i.e. a hoped-for end. **ye shall seek Me.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 4:29](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/4/29) ; [Deuteronomy 30:2](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/30/2) ). **away** = back. **captivity.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Subject), for captives. **of** = concerning. **I will send . . . the sword, &c.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 26:25](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/25) , [Leviticus 26:26](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/26) ). **the famine.** Some codices, with three early printed editions (one in margin), Aramaean, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and famine", thus completing the Figure of speech *Polysyndeton* . **vile figs** = worthless figs. See [Jeremiah 24:2](../../../kjv/jeremiah/24/2) . **with.** Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "and with". **removed.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 28:25](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/28/25) , the same word). **unto them.** Some codices, with four early printed editions, read "unto you". **rising up early, &c** . See note on [Jeremiah 7:13](../../../kjv/jeremiah/7/13) . **sent.** Some codices, with Aramaean, read "caused to be carried captive". Compare [Jeremiah 24:5](../../../kjv/jeremiah/24/5) . **Ahab . . . Zedekiah.** These were false prophets-whom Nebuchadrezzar treated as stated in [Jeremiah 29:22](../../../kjv/jeremiah/29/22) . **Kolaiah . . . curse . . . roasted.** Note the Figure of speech *Paronomasia* . Hebrew. *Kolayah . . . kelah . . . kalam.* **Nebuchadrezzar.** Some codices read Nebuchadnezzar. **a curse** = a curse formula. **committed villany** = vileness: i.e. worshipped idols. See the first occurance [Genesis 34:7](../../../kjv/genesis/34/7) . **Nehelamite:** or, dreamer. **mad.** Compare [John 2:20](../../../kjv/john/2/20) ; [John 10:20](../../../kjv/john/10/20) , [John 10:39](../../../kjv/john/10/39) . See App-85 . **maketh himself a prophet.** Compare [Matthew 21:11](../../../kjv/matthew/21/11) . Joh 8:53 . See App-85 . **trust** = confide. Hebrew. *batah.* App-69 . **rebellion, &c.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 13:5](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/13/5) ). 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