Jeremiah 44:28

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Summary

Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.

A small

Jeremiah 44:14

Isaiah 10:19

Isaiah 27:12

Shall know

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Bible References

A small

So that not one of the rest of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt and are living there, will get away or keep his life, to come back to the land of Judah where they are hoping to come back and be living again: for not one will come back, but only those who are able to get away.

And the rest of the trees of his wood will be small in number, so that a child may put them down in writing.

And it will be in that day that the Lord will get together his grain, from the River to the stream of Egypt, and you will be got together with care, O children of Israel.

Shall know

As for the word which you have said to us in the name of the Lord, we will not give ear to you.

Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you:

The Lord's purpose is eternal, the designs of his heart go on through all the generations of man.

The Lord has taken an oath, saying, My design will certainly come about, and my purpose will be effected:

For this cause says the Lord God, See, I am placing in Zion as a base, a stone, a tested stone, an angle-stone which is certain and of great value: and he who has faith will not give way.

Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;

Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?

But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.

Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

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And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.

Take another book and put down in it all the words which were in the first book, which Jehoiakim, king of Judah, put into the fire.

For I will send punishment on those who are living in the land of Egypt, as I have sent punishment on Jerusalem, by the sword and by need of food and by disease:

But still, I will keep a small band safe from the sword among the nations, when you are sent wandering among the countries.