Jeremiah 29:6

“Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters, etc.] That is, such as had no wives, who were either bachelors or widowers; not that they were to take wives of the Chaldeans, but of those of their own nation; for intermarriages with Heathens were forbidden them; and this they were to do, in order to propagate their posterity, and keep up a succession: and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands; or “men”f549; preserving and establishing the right of parents to give their children in marriage, and pointing to them their duty to provide suitable yoke fellows for them; and hereby is signified, that not only they, but their children after them, should continue in this state of…”

“that ye . . . be . . . not diminished--It was God's will that the seed of Abraham should not fail; thus consolation is given them, and the hope, though not of an immediate, yet of an ultimate, return.”

“As the exile was God’s doing for their good, they were to make the best of their position, and acquire wealth and influence; whereas if they were always restlessly looking out for the opportunity of returning home, they would rapidly fall into poverty and dwindle away. Jeremiah 29:7 Seek the peace of the city ... - Not only because their welfare for seventy years was bound up with that of Babylon, but because it would have degraded their whole moral nature to have lived as conspirators, banded together against the country that was for the time their home. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Take ye: Jer 16:2-4; Gen 1:27, Gen 1:28, Gen 9:7; Ti1 5:14 take wives: Gen 21:21, Gen 24:3, Gen 24:4, Gen 24:51, Gen 24:60, Gen 28:1-4, Gen 29:19, Gen 34:4; Jdg 1:12-14, Jdg 12:9, Jdg 14:2; Co1 7:36-38 Jeremiah 29:7”