Jeremiah 42:15-19

15 then hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: 1If you set your faces to enter Egypt 2and go to live there,
16 then the sword 3that you fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine of which you are afraid shall follow close after you to Egypt, 4and there you shall die.
17 All the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to live there shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. They shall have 5no remnant or survivor from the disaster that I will bring upon them.
18 "For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: 6As my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. 7You shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt. You shall see this place no more.
19 The LORD has said to you, O remnant of Judah, 8'Do not go to Egypt.'9Know for a certainty that I have warned you this day

Cross References 9

  • 1. Jeremiah 44:12; [ver. 19; Deuteronomy 17:16]
  • 2. Jeremiah 44:27; See Jeremiah 44:1, 12-14
  • 3. Ezekiel 11:8
  • 4. ver. 22; Jeremiah 44:12
  • 5. Lamentations 2:22
  • 6. See Jeremiah 7:20
  • 7. See Jeremiah 18:16
  • 8. Jeremiah 43:2; [ver. 14-16]
  • 9. [Ezekiel 2:5]
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