The Koine Bible

And these are the words of the book that Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the elders of the captivity and to the priests and to the false prophets, a letter to Babylon to the captivity and to all the people

After Jechonias the king and the queen and the eunuchs and every free man and prisoner and craftsman had gone out from Jerusalem

by the hand of Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Babylon, to Babylon, saying

Thus says the Lord the God of Israel concerning the exile which I carried away from Jerusalem

Build houses and dwell and plant gardens and eat their fruits

and take wives and beget sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to men, and multiply and do not be diminished

And seek for the peace of the land into which I have deported you there, and pray for them to the Lord, because in its peace there will be peace for you.

For thus said the Lord: Do not let the false prophets among you persuade you, and do not let your diviners persuade you, and do not listen to your dreams that you dream.

For they prophesy lies to you in my name, and I did not send them

For thus said the Lord: When seventy years are about to be fulfilled for Babylon, I will visit you and I will establish my words upon you, to turn your people back to this place.

And I will reckon toward you a reckoning of peace and not evil, to give you these things

and pray toward me, and I will hear you

and you shall seek me and find me, because you shall seek me with all your heart

and I will appear to you

For you said, The Lord has appointed prophets for us in Babylon.

Thus said the Lord concerning Achiab and concerning Sedekias: Behold, I am giving them into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall strike them before your eyes.

and they shall take from them a curse in all the exile of Judah in Babylon, saying, May the Lord do to you as he did to Zedekiah and as to Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire

because of which they committed lawlessness in Israel and were committing adultery with the wives of their fellow citizens and were uttering a word in my name which I did not command them, and I am witness, says the Lord

And to Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall say

I did not send you in my name, and to Zephaniah son of Maaseiah the priest say:

The Lord has given you as priest in place of Jehoiada the priest, to be overseer in the house of the Lord over every man prophesying and over every man who is mad, and you shall put him into the stocks and into the collar.

And now why did you revile Jeremiah the one from Anathoth, the one who prophesied to you?

Was it not for this that he sent to you to Babylon, saying, It is far off; build houses and dwell in them, and plant gardens and eat their fruit?

And Sophonias read the book in the ears of Jeremiah

And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying

Send to the exile, saying, Thus said the Lord concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: because Shemaiah prophesied to you, and I did not send him, and he made you trust in injustices.

Therefore thus said the Lord: Behold, I am visiting upon Shemaiah and upon his family, and there shall not be a man of them in your midst to see the good things that I will do for you; they shall not see.