Jeremiah 36:5

Build ye houses, and inhabit them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruits thereof;

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:

In Context

4Thus said the Lord God of Israel concerning the captivity which I caused to be carried away from Jerusalem;

6and take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and be multiplied, and be not diminished.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 38:28And it shall come to pass, that as I watched over them, to pull down, and to afflict, so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the Lord.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 36:2-9

The Roll Written by Baruch. ( b. c. 607.) 1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the Lord , saying, 2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day. 3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that… Read the whole commentary →

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