aJer 40:8, 13; 41:11, 18
bJer 6:13; 8:10; 42:8; 44:12; Acts 8:10
cJer 36:7; 37:20
eEx 8:28; 1 Sam 7:8; 12:19; 1 Kin 13:6; Is 37:4; Jer 37:3; 42:20; Acts 8:24; James 5:16
fLev 26:22; Deut 28:62; Is 1:9; Lam 1:1
gPs 86:11; Prov 3:6; Jer 6:16; Mic 4:2
hEx 8:29; 1 Sam 12:23
j1 Kin 22:14; Jer 23:28
k1 Sam 3:17, 18; Ps 40:10; Acts 20:20
lGen 31:50; Judg 11:10; Jer 43:2; Mic 1:2; Mal 2:14; 3:5
pEx 24:7; Deut 5:27; Josh 24:24
qDeut 5:29, 33; 6:3; Jer 7:23
rPs 27:14; Is 30:18
s2 Kin 19:4, 6, 20; 22:15
tJer 24:6; 31:28; 33:7; Ezek 36:36
vJer 18:7, 8; Hos 11:8; Joel 2:13; Amos 7:3, 6; Jon 3:10; 4:2
wJer 1:8; 27:12, 17; 41:18
xNum 14:9; 2 Chr 32:7, 8; Ps 46:7, 11; 118:6; Is 8:9, 10; 43:2, 5; Jer 1:19; 15:20; Rom 8:31
yNeh 1:11; Ps 106:46; Prov 16:7
zEx 5:2; Jer 44:16
aaIs 31:1; Jer 41:17
abEx 16:3; Num 11:4; Jer 4:19, 21
aeDeut 17:16; Jer 42:17; 44:12-14
afJer 44:13, 27; Ezek 11:8; Amos 9:1-4
ahJer 24:10; 38:2; 42:22; 44:13
aiJer 44:14, 28
aj2 Chr 36:16-19; Jer 7:20; 33:5; 39:1-9
akDeut 29:21; Is 65:15; Jer 18:16; 24:9; 29:18; 44:12
amJer 22:10, 27
anDeut 17:16; Is 30:1-7
aoEzek 2:5
apNeh 9:26, 29, 30
arJer 43:2; Ezek 14:3
asDeut 11:26; Jer 43:1; Ezek 2:7; Zech 7:11; Acts 20:26, 27
atJer 43:4
avJer 43:11; Ezek 6:11
awHos 9:6

Jeremiah 42

Warning against Going to Egypt

1 Then all the commanders of the forces, aJohanan the son of Kareah, Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people bfrom the small to the great approached 2and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our cpleading ▼
▼Lit fall
come before you, and epray for us to the Lord your God for all this remnant --since we have been left only a ffew out of many, just as your own eyes now see us-- 3that the Lord your God will tell us the gway in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do.” 4Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I am going to hpray to the Lord your God in accordance with your words; and I will tell you the whole ▼
▼Lit word
message which the jLord gives you as an answer. I will knot withhold a word from you.” 5Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the lLord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with the whole ▼
▼Lit word
message with which the Lord your God will send you to us. 6Whether it is ▼
▼Lit good
pleasant or ▼
▼Lit evil
unpleasant, we will plisten to the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go qwell for us when we listen to the voice of the Lord our God.”

7 Now at the rend of ten days the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah. 8Then he called for Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him, and for all the people from the small to the great, 9and said to them, “This is what the Lord ssays, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your plea before Him: 10‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will tbuild you up and not tear you down, and I will plant you and not uproot you; for I ▼
▼Or shall have changed my mind about
will vrelent of the disaster that I have inflicted on you. 11 wDo not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you are now fearing; do not be afraid of him,’ declares the Lord, ‘for xI am with you to save you and rescue you from his hand. 12I will also show you compassion, so that yhe will have compassion on you and restore you to your own soil. 13But if you are going to say, “We will znot stay in this land,” so as not to listen to the voice of the Lord your God, 14saying, “No, but we will aago to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war, or abhear the sound of a trumpet, or hunger for bread, and we will stay there”; 15then ▼
▼Lit now therefore
in that case listen to the word of the Lord, you remnant of Judah. This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “If you really set your ▼
▼Lit face
minds to enter aeEgypt and go in to reside there, 16then the afsword, of which you are afraid, 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. 17So all the people who set their ▼
▼Lit face
minds to go to Egypt to reside there will die by the ahsword, by famine, or by plague; and they will aihave no refugees or survivors from the disaster that I am going to bring on them.”’”

18 For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel says: “As My ajanger and wrath have gushed out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will gush out on you when you enter Egypt. And you will become a akcurse, an object of horror, ▼
▼Lit a curse-formula
an imprecation, and a disgrace; and amyou will not see this place again.” 19The Lord has spoken to you, you remnant of Judah, “Do not ango to Egypt!” You aoknow for certain that I have apadmonished you today. 20For you have only ▼
▼Or acted errantly in your souls
 , ardeceived 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.” 21So I have astold you today, but you have atnot ▼
▼Lit listened to the voice of
obeyed the Lord your God in whatever He has sent me to tell you. 22And now you shall know for certain that you will avdie by the sword, by famine, or by plague in the awplace where you desire to go to reside.

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