Jeremiah 42:1-6 - The Remnant Asks Jeremiah To Pray To Yahweh For Direction
1 All the army leaders, including Johanan son of Kareah and Azariah son of Hoshaiah, came with people of every class. 2 They said to me: Please do what we ask you! Pray to Jehovah our God for us. Pray for all of us who have survived. Once there were many of us. Now there are only a few of us left, as you can see. 3 Pray that Jehovah our God will show us the way we should go and what we should do.
4 I answered: Very well, then. I will pray to Jehovah our God, just as you have asked. I will tell you what he says. I will not keep back anything from you.
5 Then they said to me: May Jehovah be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not obey all the commandments that Jehovah our God gives you for us. 6 Whether it pleases us or not, we will obey Jehovah our God, to whom we are asking you to pray. All will go well with us if we obey him.