Babylon: The Jews Exhorted to be Subject To, and Settle In

Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?

This is the text of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets, and all the others Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. …