Jeremiah 42

1Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, came near,Cross-references: 2Ki 25:23 · Isa 29:13 · Isa 48:1 · Isa 58:1 · Jer 5:4 · Jer 6:13 · +16 more

2and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us,Cross-references: Ex 8:28 · Ex 9:28 · Lev 26:22 · Deut 4:27 · Deut 28:62 · 1Sam 7:8 · +19 more

3that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the things that we should do.”Cross-references: Deut 5:26 · Deut 5:29 · 1Ki 8:36 · Ezra 8:21 · Ps 25:4 · Ps 27:11 · +7 more

4Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; and it will happen that whatever thing Yahweh answers you, I will declare it to you. I will keep nothing back from you.”Cross-references: Ex 8:29 · 1Sam 3:17 · 1Sam 12:23 · 1Ki 22:14 · 2Chr 18:13 · Ps 40:10 · +5 more

5Then they said to Jeremiah, “May Yahweh be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don’t do according to all the word with which Yahweh your God sends you to tell us.Cross-references: Gen 31:50 · Ex 20:7 · Ex 20:19 · Deut 5:27 · Judg 11:10 · 1Sam 12:5 · +8 more

6Whether it is good, or whether it is bad, we will obey the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God.”Cross-references: Ex 24:7 · Deut 5:29 · Deut 5:33 · Deut 6:2 · Josh 24:24 · Ps 81:13 · +6 more

7After ten days, Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah.Cross-references: Ps 27:14 · Isa 28:16 · Hab 2:3

8Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,Cross-references: Jer 40:8 · Jer 40:13 · Jer 41:11 · Jer 42:1 · Jer 43:2

9and said to them, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him, says:Cross-references: 2Ki 19:4 · 2Ki 19:6 · 2Ki 19:20 · 2Ki 22:15 · Jer 42:2

10‘If you will still live in this land, then I will build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you.Cross-references: Gen 26:2 · Ex 32:14 · Deut 32:36 · Judg 2:18 · 2Sam 24:16 · Ps 37:3 · +16 more

11Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Don’t be afraid of him,’ says Yahweh, ‘for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.Cross-references: Num 14:9 · Deut 20:4 · Josh 1:5 · Josh 1:9 · 2Ki 25:26 · 2Chr 32:7 · +17 more

12I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.Cross-references: Neh 1:11 · Ps 106:45 · Prov 16:7

13“‘But if you say, “We will not dwell in this land,” so that you don’t obey Yahweh your God’s voice,Cross-references: Ex 5:2 · Jer 42:10 · Jer 44:16

14saying, “No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there we will dwell;”’Cross-references: Ex 16:3 · Ex 17:3 · Num 11:4 · Num 16:13 · Deut 29:19 · Isa 30:16 · +5 more

15now therefore hear Yahweh’s word, O remnant of Judah! Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to live there,Cross-references: Gen 31:21 · Deut 17:16 · Jer 42:17 · Jer 44:12 · Dan 11:17 · Luke 9:51

16then it will happen that the sword, which you fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, will follow close behind you there in Egypt; and you will die there.Cross-references: Deut 28:15 · Deut 28:22 · Deut 28:45 · Prov 13:21 · Jer 42:13 · Jer 44:11 · +5 more

17So will it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there. They will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. None of them will remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.’Cross-references: Jer 24:10 · Jer 42:22 · Jer 44:13 · Jer 44:28

18For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and my wrath has been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you, when you enter into Egypt; and you will be an object of horror, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you will see this place no more.’Cross-references: Deut 29:21 · 1Ki 9:7 · 2Ki 25:4 · 2Chr 34:25 · 2Chr 36:16 · Isa 65:15 · +22 more

19“Yahweh has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, ‘Don’t go into Egypt!’ Know certainly that I have testified to you today.Cross-references: Deut 17:16 · Deut 31:21 · 2Chr 24:19 · Neh 9:26 · Neh 9:29 · Isa 30:1 · +9 more

20For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God says, so declare to us, and we will do it.’Cross-references: Num 16:38 · Ps 18:44 · Ps 65:3 · Jer 3:10 · Jer 17:10 · Jer 42:2 · +6 more

21I have declared it to you today; but you have not obeyed Yahweh your God’s voice in anything for which he has sent me to you.Cross-references: Deut 11:26 · Deut 29:19 · Jer 7:24 · Ezek 2:7 · Ezek 3:17 · Zech 7:11 · +2 more

22Now therefore know certainly that you will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live.”Cross-references: Jer 42:17 · Jer 43:11 · Ezek 5:3 · Ezek 6:11 · Hos 9:6