5"Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.
5"Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.
2 (This was after King Jehoiachin and the queen mother, the court officials and the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen and the artisans had gone into exile from Jerusalem.)
3 He entrusted the letter to Elasah son of Shaphan and to Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. It said:
4 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:
5 "Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.
6 Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease.
7 Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper."
29:5Build ye houses, and dwell [in them;] and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
29:5Build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant orchards, and eat the fruit of them.
29:5Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
29:5Build houses, and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
29:5Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
29:5Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
29:5Build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
29:5Build ye houses, and abide; and plant ye gardens, and eat their fruit;
29:5Build you houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;