Chapter Book
Loading
Change Translation
Loading...
  • Recent Translations
  • All Translations

Jeremiah 42:11-21

Share

Settings

11 '1Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you are now fearing; do not be afraid of him,' declares the LORD, 'for 2I am with you to save you and deliver you from his hand.
12 'I will also show you compassion, so that 3he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own soil.
13 'But if you are going to say, "We will 4not stay in this land," so as not to listen to the voice of the LORD your God,
14 saying, "No, but we will 5go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war or 6hear the sound of a trumpet or hunger for bread, and we will stay there ";
15 then in that case listen to the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "If you really set your mind to enter 7Egypt and go in to reside there,
16 then the 8sword, which you are afraid of, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are anxious, will follow closely after you there in Egypt, and you will die there.
17 "So all the men who set their mind to go to Egypt to reside there will die by the 9sword, by famine and by pestilence; and they will 10have no survivors or refugees from the calamity that I am going to bring on them.""'
18 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "As My 11anger and wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. And you will become a 12curse, an object of horror, an imprecation and a reproach; and 13you will see this place no more."
19 The LORD has spoken to you, O remnant of Judah, "Do not 14go into Egypt!" You should clearly 15understand that today I have 16testified against you.
20 For you have only 17deceived yourselves; for it is you who sent me to the LORD your God, saying, "Pray for us to the LORD our God; and whatever * the LORD our God says, tell us so, and we will do it."
21 So I have 18told you today, but you have 19not obeyed * the LORD your God, even in whatever * He has sent me to tell you.
Read Chapter Compare

Jeremiah 42:11-21 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH CAHPTER 42

This chapter contains a request of the Jews to Jeremiah, to pray to the Lord for them to direct them, and the Lord's answer to it. The request is made by the captains and all the people, Jer 42:1-3; which Jeremiah undertook to present to the Lord, Jer 42:4; they promising to go according to the direction that should be given, Jer 42:5,6. After ten days an answer is returned, and the prophet calls the captains and people together to hear it, Jer 42:7,8; the purport of which was, that if they continued in the land of Judah, it would be well with them, and they would be safe, Jer 42:9-12; but if they went into Egypt, they should die by the sword, famine, and pestilence, and be a curse and reproach, and never see their own land more, Jer 42:13-18; they are charged with dissimulation and disobedience, Jer 42:19-21; and the chapter is concluded with an assurance of their perishing by the above judgments in the place they were desirous of dwelling in, Jer 42:22.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 19

  • 1. Jeremiah 1:8; Jeremiah 27:12, 17; Jeremiah 41:18
  • 2. Numbers 14:9; 2 Chronicles 32:7, 8; Psalms 46:7, 11; Psalms 118:6; Isaiah 8:9, 10; Isaiah 43:2, 5; Jeremiah 1:19; Jeremiah 15:20; Romans 8:31
  • 3. Nehemiah 1:11; Psalms 106:46; Proverbs 16:7
  • 4. Exodus 5:2; Jeremiah 44:16
  • 5. Isaiah 31:1; Jeremiah 41:17
  • 6. Exodus 16:3; Numbers 11:4; Jeremiah 4:19, 21
  • 7. Deuteronomy 17:16; Jeremiah 42:17; Jeremiah 44:12-14
  • 8. Jeremiah 44:13, 27; Ezekiel 11:8; Amos 9:1-4
  • 9. Jeremiah 24:10; Jeremiah 38:2; Jeremiah 42:22; Jeremiah 44:13
  • 10. Jeremiah 44:14, 28
  • 11. 2 Chronicles 36:16-19; Jeremiah 7:20; Jeremiah 33:5; Jeremiah 39:1-9
  • 12. Deuteronomy 29:21; Isaiah 65:15; Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 24:9; Jeremiah 29:18; Jeremiah 44:12
  • 13. Jeremiah 22:10, 27
  • 14. Deuteronomy 17:16; Isaiah 30:1-7
  • 15. Ezekiel 2:5
  • 16. Neh 9:26, 29, 30
  • 17. Jeremiah 43:2; Ezekiel 14:3
  • 18. Deuteronomy 11:26; Jeremiah 43:1; Ezekiel 2:7; Zechariah 7:11; Acts 20:26, 27
  • 19. Jeremiah 43:4

Footnotes 5

New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, California.  All rights reserved.