Man With Jeremiah 29:11 Tattoo Recounts His Time In Babylonian Captivity
Christian Living · May 19, 2016 · BabylonBee.com

BOSTON, MA - Samuel Levenson's life verse - and only tattoo - is Jeremiah 29:11, and with good reason. Levenson first encountered the biblical promise when his spiritual life was in a lull, his career was in a slump, and he was enduring a harsh and brutal exile in the pagan kingdom of Babylon. His only sustenance during this time of doubt, depression, and being a captive of King Nebuchadnezzar, was the clear promise in Jeremiah Chapter 29 that God had plans laid out for him - plans for a future and hope - despite his people's obstinate rebelliousness.

"That verse kicked off a shift in my life, and it came when I was at rock bottom," Levenson told reporters as he showed off the inked inscription of the passage in between his shoulder blades. "I was out of a job and in the middle of a rough patch with my girlfriend. I was struggling with spiritual doubt. And to top it all off, I was captured and carried into captivity by an Ancient Mesopotamian empire."

"I'll never, ever forget when I first read those words from Jeremiah," he said. "I had to have a permanent symbol of the promise they held for me."

At publishing time, Levenson was sketching a draft of his next tattoo, which will include Exodus 14:14, to commemorate the time he won his high school football district championship shortly after being miraculously saved from Pharaoh's fast-advancing chariot army on the shores of the Red Sea.


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