Jeremiah 29:5

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Build you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

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Babylon was the Mesopotamian imperial city to which many Judeans from Jerusalem, Judah’s capital, had been exiled after Babylon’s conquest. Jeremiah instructs these displaced people to establish settled lives there, underscoring that their exile was under God’s sovereign discipline and would not end immediately.

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Jeremiah 29:5 mentions Babylon and Jerusalem.

Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky
Jerusalem · Godot13

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