Jeremiah 42:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

That the sword

There ye

Jeremiah 44:11

General references

Lamentations 5:9

Ezekiel 11:8

Bible References

That the sword

But if you are going to say, “We will not stay in this land,” so as not to listen to the voice of the Lord your God,

And I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine and with pestilence.

“But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Adversity pursues sinners,

But the righteous will be rewarded with prosperity.

You have feared a sword; so I will bring a sword upon you,” the Lord God declares.

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said,
“Smite the capitals so that the thresholds will shake,
And break them on the heads of them all!
Then I will slay the rest of them with the sword;
They will not have a fugitive who will flee,
Or a refugee who will escape.

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? Then they repented and said, ‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to do to us in accordance with our ways and our deeds, so He has dealt with us.’”’”

If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

There ye

“Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am going to set My face against you for woe, even to cut off all Judah.

General references

We get our bread at the risk of our lives

Because of the sword in the wilderness.

You have feared a sword; so I will bring a sword upon you,” the Lord God declares.