Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 29:30
Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
30. This resumes the thread ofthe sentence which began at Jer29:25, but was left there not completed. Here, in this thirtiethverse, it is completed, not however in continuity, but by a newperiod. The same construction occurs in Ro5:12-15.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
When came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah,…. After he had heard the letter read:
saying; as follows:
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
C. A Second Letter to Babylon Jer. 29:30-32
TRANSLATION
(30) And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying, (31) send unto all the captives, saying, Thus says the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, though I did not send him, and he has caused you to trust a falsehood; (32) therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I am about to bring punishment upon Shemaiah the Nehelamite and upon his seed; he shall not have a male descendant dwelling among this people, and he shall not look with pleasure on the good which I shall do for My people (oracle of the LORD), for he has spoken rebellion against the LORD.
COMMENTS
Jeremiah received an oracle from the Lord concerning Shemaiah and proceeded to send a second letter to the captives. In it he affirms that the Lord will punish Shemaiah for perpetuating the delusion of a short captivity and encouraging the Jews there to rebel against Babylon. The punishment is two-fold: (1) Shemaiah would be deprived of descendants to carry on his name, and (2) he would not live to see the restoration of the people to their own land at the end of the seventy years of captivity (Jer. 29:32).
Fuente: College Press Bible Study Textbook Series
Jer 29:30 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
Ver. 30. Then came the word of the Lord. ] Or, Therefore came, &c. In the five former verses we had narrationem causae, an account of the reasons Shemaiah’s crime; in these three last, we have dictionem sententiae, the prediction of the sentence Shemaiah’s doom.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Reciprocal: Jer 28:12 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 29:30. After the exchange of communications between Shemaiah and the priest Zephaniah, the Lord gave Jeremiah another message to send to Babylon.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Then the Lord gave a message to Jeremiah. He was to tell the exiles that because Shemaiah had prophesied falsely, Yahweh would punish Shemaiah and his descendants. The Lord would cut off his family line, and Shemaiah would not live to see the good that Yahweh would do to His people. [Note: Compare Jeremiah’s words of judgment on Hananiah (28:15-16).] Shemaiah’s prophesying constituted advocating rebellion against Yahweh.
Chapters 26-29 all record the terrible consequences of rejecting the Word of the Lord that one of His faithful servants, a true prophet, announced.