Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:
Jeremiah 29:20 stands within the letters and records that conveyed Jeremiah's message to the Hebrew captives in Babylon. It belongs to prophecies that defined the Babylonian captivity as lasting seventy years. Within that same defined period the return of the exiles was given as a sure promise. Those prophecies of Jeremiah concerning the years appointed for the desolation of Jerusalem were afterward studied by Daniel for understanding of the time.
Jeremiah 29:20 stands within the letters and records that conveyed Jeremiah's message to the Hebrew captives in Babylon. It belongs to prophecies that defined the Babylonian captivity as lasting seventy years. Within that same defined period the return of the exiles was given as a sure promise. Those prophecies of Jeremiah concerning the years appointed for the desolation of Jerusalem were afterward studied by Daniel for understanding of the time.