Jeremiah 40:2

Jeremiah Decides To Remain In The Land

¹ The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord after Nebuzaradan captain of the bodyguard had released him from Ramah, when he had taken him bound in chains among all the exiles of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon. ² Now the captain of the bodyguard had taken Jeremiah and said to him, “The Lord your God promised this calamity against this place; ³ and the Lord has brought it on and done just as He promised. Because you people sinned against the Lord and did not listen to His voice, therefore this thing has happened to you.

Captain of the Guard

Jehovah

Jeremiah

Deuteronomy 29:24-28

All the nations will say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

Jeremiah 22:8-9

“Many nations will pass by this city; and they will say to one another, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this great city?’

1 Kings 9:8-9

And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

2 Chronicles 7:20-22

then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Lamentations 2:15-17

All who pass along the way
Clap their hands in derision at you;
They hiss and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem,
“Is this the city of which they said,
‘The perfection of beauty,
A joy to all the earth’?”