29 These are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the rest of the elders among the exiled people, the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, 2 after King Jec·o·niʹah,+ the queen mother,*+ the court officials, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen and the metalworkers* had gone out of Jerusalem.+