 | 1839 - 1060 pages
...husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished. 7 And carbegin prophesying till the fifth year of the captivity of Jeconiah; but Daniel was already acknowledged... | |
 | 1839 - 540 pages
...Jerusalem, they shall prosper that love thee." To the Jews iu captivity the direction was given, " Seek the peace of the city, whither I have caused you to bo carried away captive, and pray unto the Lord for it, for in the peace thereof ye shall have peace."... | |
 | Henry Addington Simcoe - 1840 - 300 pages
...case, when the Jews were conquered by the king of Babylon and carried away captives, Jer. xxix. 7, " Seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you...pray unto the Lord for it; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace." And surely the reason is much stronger why we should pray for our natural Princes... | |
 | 1840 - 580 pages
...perhaps the strictest parallel to it will be found in the case of the Israelites (Jer. xxix. 7), " Seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you...pray unto the LORD for it; for in the peace thereof " shall ye have peace." This may be applied to both circumstances alluded to. year and a half of its... | |
 | William Jacobson (bp. of Chester.) - 1840 - 354 pages
...in those dark and dreary days, what was God's message to them by the mouth of His prophet Jeremiah ? Seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you...captives, and pray unto the Lord for it ; for in the peace of it ye shall have peace.1 And yet, after all, it may perhaps be a question whether the duty of prayer... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - 1978 - 644 pages
...husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished. 7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you...pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace. The Siege, and a Brief Respite Eventually ZedeJciah follows the guidance of those... | |
 | Jacob Katz - 1961 - 214 pages
...xxix. 5-7 (Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them. . . . And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you...carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it), a passage which had long been used to illustrate Jewish loyalty to the countries in which they lived.3... | |
 | Abba Solomon Eban - 1984 - 376 pages
...survive until the distant day of redemption and not to imperil survival by useless resistance. And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you...pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace. (Jeremiah 29:7) Economically, if not spiritually, those Jews who were brought... | |
 | Paul Ramsey - 2010 - 228 pages
...abolition of all those contradictions. The verse is Jeremiah's counsel to God's people in exile to "seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives"—difficult as it may be to sing the Lord's song in a strange land—"for in the peace thereof... | |
 | Aaron Wildavsky - 2001 - 248 pages
...dwell in them: and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them that ye may be increased there . . . and seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you...carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it" (Jer. 29:5-7).26 Nevertheless, there is a clear differentiation between the stranger and the Israelite... | |
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And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace. 
