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Jeremiah 43:8

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Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah at Tahpanhes:

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then came the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

KJV

Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

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This verse in Jeremiah 43

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Then came the word of the Lord to Jeremiah, at Tahpanhes,.... Where he was with the rest the captains carried thither with them; and as soon as he and they had got here, the word of the Lord came unto him, declaring the destruction of this place, and of the whole land. Here Jerom says the prophet was stoned to death; saying; as follows:

This site's exposition

Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

on Jeremiah 43:8-11

The word does not stop pursuing Jeremiah for having been dragged where he refused to go, and the sign commanded here stands with the marred girdle and the broken bottle as enacted rather than only spoken prophecy: great stones hidden in the clay of the pavement at Pharaoh's own house, in the sight of the men of Judah, a buried claim driven into Egyptian soil. Nebuchadnezzar is named the Lord's servant, the same title carried at 25:9 and 27:6, and is set to spread his royal pavilion over the very stones the refugees watched Jeremiah bury, so the empire's throne is planted on the doorstep of the refuge they fled toward. The threefold sentence of verse 11, death to death, captivity to captivity, sword to sword, reads to the bench as the same formula already used of Judah's own fall, Egypt now standing where Jerusalem stood.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the L ORD : thus came they even to Tahpanhes. What God said to the builders of Babel may be truly said of this people that Jeremiah is now dealing with: Now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do, Gen. xi.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

On arriving at the frontiers of Egypt, the captains would be compelled to halt in order to obtain the king’s permission to enter his country. Jeremiah therefore takes the opportunity to predict, first, the downfall of Egypt; and secondly, that of the false gods.

The words behind it

7 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְהִ֤יand it came

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • דְבַר־[the] word of

    devar-H1697 →1440 times

  • יְהוָה֙Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶֽל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • יִרְמְיָ֔הוּJeremiah

    yirmeyahuH3414 →147 times

  • בְּתַחְפַּנְחֵ֖סin Tahpanhes

    betachpanchesH8471 →7 times

  • לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Psalms 139:7

    Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 23:23–24

      “Am I only a God nearby,” declares the LORD, “and not a God far away?”

    • Jonah 1:3

      Jonah, however, got up to flee to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went…

    • Jonah 1:10

      Then the men were even more afraid and said to him, “What have you done?” The men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

  • Through

    2 Timothy 2:9

    for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!

    it leads to

    • Acts 28:31

      Boldly and freely he proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ.

    • 2 Timothy 1:8

      So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me, His prisoner. Instead, join me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.

    • Philippians 1:7

      It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart. For in my chains and in my defense and confirmation of the gospel, you…

    • Ephesians 6:19–20

      Pray also for me, that whenever I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I will boldly make known the mystery of the gospel,

    • Colossians 4:3

      as you pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 43 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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