OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 29:15

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Because you have said, “The LORD has raised us up prophets in Babylon,”

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Verse 15. Said. Expressing your confidence in Providence; or rather, if we join this with what follows, he rebukes them for trusting in false prophets, who represented their condition as worse than that of their brethren, who were left behind; whereas it was really better. verse 17 and Calmet. 24:2. 8. Calmet.—The deluded people suppose that the false prophets had been sent by God. Worthington.

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