Thematic Bible
Jeremiah 42:1 (show verse)
All the army leaders, including Johanan son of Kareah and Azariah son of Hoshaiah, came with people of every class.
Jeremiah 42:2 (show verse)
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.
Jeremiah 42:3 (show verse)
Pray that Jehovah our God will show us the way we should go and what we should do.
Jeremiah 42:4 (show verse)
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.
Jeremiah 42:5 (show verse)
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.
Jeremiah 42:6 (show verse)
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.
Jeremiah 42:7 (show verse)
Ten days later Jehovah spoke to me.
Jeremiah 42:8 (show verse)
I called together Johanan, all the army leaders who were with him, and all the other people.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 42:9 (show verse)
I said to them, Jehovah, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me with your request said:
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 42:10 (show verse)
If you are willing to go on living in this land I will build you up and not tear you down. I will plant you and not uproot you. The destruction I brought on you has caused me great sorrow.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 42:11 (show verse)
Stop being afraid of the king of Babylon. I am with you. I will rescue you from his power.'
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 42:12 (show verse)
For the reason that I am merciful, I will make him have mercy on you and let you go back home. I Jehovah have spoken.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 42:13 (show verse)
If you say: We will not stay in this land, and you disobey Jehovah your God.
Jeremiah 42:14 (show verse)
Then you say: We will go to Egypt, where we will not have to see war, hear the sound of a ram's horn, or be hungry. We will stay there.
Jeremiah 42:15 (show verse)
Listen to the word of Jehovah, you people who are left in Judah. This is what Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Suppose you are determined to go to Egypt, and you go and live there.
Jeremiah 42:16 (show verse)
Then the war that you fear will overtake you, and the hunger you dread will follow you, and you will die there in Egypt.
Jeremiah 42:17 (show verse)
All the people who are determined to go and live in Egypt will die either in war or of starvation or disease. Not one of them will survive, not one will escape the disaster that I am going to bring on them.'
Jeremiah 42:18 (show verse)
Jehovah, the God of Israel, says: 'Just as my anger and fury were poured out on the people of Jerusalem, so my fury will be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will be a horrifying sight. People will make fun of you and use your name as a curse. You will never see this place again.'
Jeremiah 42:19 (show verse)
Then I continued: Jehovah has told you people who are left in Judah not to go to Egypt. And so I warn you now.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 42:20 (show verse)
You are making a fatal mistake. You asked me to pray to Jehovah our God for you, and you promised that you would do everything that he commands.
Jeremiah 42:21 (show verse)
Now I have told you, but you are disobeying everything that Jehovah our God sent me to tell you.
No Themes for this verse.
Jeremiah 42:22 (show verse)
So then, remember this: you will die in war or of starvation or disease in the land where you want to go and live.