Jeremiah 29:25

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Thus speaks Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

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Babylon was the Mesopotamian imperial capital where many Judeans lived in exile after Jerusalem’s defeat. Jerusalem, Judah’s covenant center and former royal city, remained the destination of letters such as Shemaiah’s, which challenged Jeremiah’s prophetic counsel to the exiles.

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Jeremiah 29:25 mentions Babylon and Jerusalem.

Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky
Jerusalem · Godot13

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