Jeremiah 29:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Because you may say, “The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,””
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BSBPD
“Because you may say, “The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Because ye have said, The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Because ye have said, Jehovah hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“`Because ye have said, Jehovah hath raised up to us prophets in Babylon,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Jeremiah 29:15 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 28:1In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:
- Jeremiah 29:8For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Do not be deceived by the prophets and diviners among you, and do not listen to the dreams you elicit from them.
- Ezekiel 1:1In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the River Kebar, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God.
- Ezekiel 1:3the word of the LORD came directly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Kebar. And there the LORD’s hand was upon him.
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