Jeremiah Chapter 42

• Jeremiah 42:1
  Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 42:2
  Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even to the gr...
• Jeremiah 42:3
  and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to the LORD your God, even for all this remnan...
• Jeremiah 42:4
  that the LORD your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the things that we should do.”
• Jeremiah 42:5
  Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to the LORD your God according to your words; and it will happen that w...
• Jeremiah 42:6
  Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don’t do according to all the word with which the LORD your G...
• Jeremiah 42:7
  Whether it is good, or whether it is bad, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey t...
• Jeremiah 42:8
  After ten days, the LORD’s word came to Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 42:9
  Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest...
• Jeremiah 42:10
  and said to them, “The LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him, says:
• Jeremiah 42:11
  ‘If you will still live in this land, then I will build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the ...
• Jeremiah 42:12
  Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Don’t be afraid of him,’ says the LORD, ‘for I am with you to save you, and to deliver...
• Jeremiah 42:13
  I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.
• Jeremiah 42:14
  “‘But if you say, “We will not dwell in this land,” so that you don’t obey the LORD your God’s voice,
• Jeremiah 42:15
  saying, “No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there w...
• Jeremiah 42:16
  now therefore hear the LORD’s word, O remnant of Judah! The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt...
• Jeremiah 42:17
  then it will happen that the sword, which you fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, will fol...
• Jeremiah 42:18
  So will it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there. They will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. N...
• Jeremiah 42:19
  For the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and my wrath has been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be po...
• Jeremiah 42:20
  “The LORD has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, ‘Don’t go into Egypt!’ Know certainly that I have testified to you today.
• Jeremiah 42:21
  For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the LORD our God; and according t...
• Jeremiah 42:22
  I have declared it to you today; but you have not obeyed the LORD your God’s voice in anything for which he has sent me to you.
• Jeremiah 42:23
  Now therefore know certainly that you will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live.”