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Jeremiah 29:7

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Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in the peace of it shall you have peace.

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Babylon was the imperial city and region in Mesopotamia where Judah’s exiles lived after Jerusalem’s fall; Jerusalem was Judah’s covenant capital, left behind under judgment. Jeremiah tells the exiles to seek Babylon’s welfare, because their own peace during exile was bound to the city’s peace.

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Jeremiah 29:7 mentions Babylon and Jerusalem.

Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky
Jerusalem · Godot13

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