Jeremiah 42:20

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Summary

For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.

For ye

Dissembled in your hearts

Numbers 16:38

James 1:22

Bible References

For ye

And even for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not returned unto me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, saith Jehovah.

I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give each one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

At the hearing of the ear, they obey me: strangers come cringing unto me.

Iniquities have prevailed against me: our transgressions, thou wilt forgive them.

Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling-block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?

And they come unto thee as a people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they do them not; for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their dishonest gain.

Then went the Pharisees and held a council how they might ensnare him in speaking.

Be not deceived: God is not mocked; for whatever a man shall sow, that also shall he reap.

Dissembled in your hearts

the censers of these sinners who have forfeited their life; and they shall make them into broad plates for the covering of the altar; for they presented them before Jehovah, therefore they are hallowed; and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.

But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, beguiling yourselves.