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Jeremiah 42:6-16

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6 "Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will 1listen to the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go 2well with us when we listen to the voice of the LORD our God."
7 Now at the 3end of ten days the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah.
8 Then he called for Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him, and for all the people both small and great,
9 and said to them, "Thus 4says the LORD the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition before Him:
10 'If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will 5build you up and not tear you down, and I will plant you and not uproot you; for I will 6relent concerning the calamity that I have inflicted on you.
11 '7Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you are now fearing; do not be afraid of him,' declares the LORD, 'for 8I am with you to save you and deliver you from his hand.
12 'I will also show you compassion, so that 9he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own soil.
13 'But if you are going to say, "We will 10not stay in this land," so as not to listen to the voice of the LORD your God,
14 saying, "No, but we will 11go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war or 12hear 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 13Egypt and go in to reside there,
16 then the 14sword, 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.
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Jeremiah 42:6-16 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 14

  • 1. Exodus 24:7; Deuteronomy 5:27; Joshua 24:24
  • 2. Deuteronomy 5:29, 33; Deuteronomy 6:3; Jeremiah 7:23
  • 3. Psalms 27:14; Isaiah 30:18
  • 4. 2 Kin 19:4, 6, 20; 2 Kings 22:15
  • 5. Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 31:28; Jeremiah 33:7; Ezekiel 36:36
  • 6. Jeremiah 18:7, 8; Hosea 11:8; Joel 2:13; Amos 7:3, 6; Jonah 3:10; Jonah 4:2
  • 7. Jeremiah 1:8; Jeremiah 27:12, 17; Jeremiah 41:18
  • 8. 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
  • 9. Nehemiah 1:11; Psalms 106:46; Proverbs 16:7
  • 10. Exodus 5:2; Jeremiah 44:16
  • 11. Isaiah 31:1; Jeremiah 41:17
  • 12. Exodus 16:3; Numbers 11:4; Jeremiah 4:19, 21
  • 13. Deuteronomy 17:16; Jeremiah 42:17; Jeremiah 44:12-14
  • 14. Jeremiah 44:13, 27; Ezekiel 11:8; Amos 9:1-4

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