Jeremiah 29:1
Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
The verse opens the text of a letter dispatched from Jerusalem by the prophet Jeremiah. It was addressed to those left of the elders who had been taken captive, together with the priests, the prophets, and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon. The letter belongs to a correspondence between Jeremiah and the Israelite captives in Babylon. That exchange took place during the early years of the Babylonian captivity.