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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 29:2 - Strong Concordance

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Jer 29:2 Strong Concordance (After [0310] that Jeconiah [03204] the king [04428], and the queen [01377], and the eunuchs [05631], the princes [08269] of Judah [03063] and Jerusalem [03389], and the carpenters [02796], and the smiths [04525], were departed [03318] from Jerusalem [03389];)
  King James (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
queen--Nehushta, the queen mother, daughter of Elnathan (Kg2 24:8, Kg2 24:15). (Elnathan, her father, is perhaps the same as the one mentioned in Jer 26:22). She reigned jointly with her son.

princes--All the men of authority were taken away lest they should organize a rebellion. Jeremiah wrote his letter while the calamity was still recent, to console the captives under it.
 
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22 And Jehoiakim [03079] the king [04428] sent [07971] men [0582] into Egypt [04714], namely, Elnathan [0494] the son [01121] of Achbor [05907], and certain men [0582] with him into Egypt [04714].
15 And he carried away [01540] Jehoiachin [03078] to Babylon [0894], and the king's [04428] mother [0517], and the king's [04428] wives [0802], and his officers [05631], and the mighty [0352] [0193] of the land [0776], those carried [03212] he into captivity [01473] from Jerusalem [03389] to Babylon [0894].
8 Jehoiachin [03078] was eighteen [08083] [06240] years [08141] old [01121] when he began to reign [04427], and he reigned [04427] in Jerusalem [03389] three [07969] months [02320]. And his mother's [0517] name [08034] was Nehushta [05179], the daughter [01323] of Elnathan [0494] of Jerusalem [03389].