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Jeremiah 44:12

in Jeremiah 44

And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

KJV

And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

This verse in Jeremiah 44

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

They shall not be wasted by natural deaths, as Israel in the wilderness, but by these sore judgments, which, by flying into Egypt, they thought to get out of the reach of.

This site's exposition

I will set My face to bring disaster and to cut off all Judah

on Jeremiah 44:11-14

The sentence opens, “I will set My face to bring disaster and to cut off all Judah.” The remnant in Egypt will die by sword and famine. Verse 14 closes the way home, “for none will return except a few fugitives,” so the flight becomes the way it is lost.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), high and low, rich and poor. That they shall be consumed by the very same judgments which God made use of for the punishment of Jerusalem, the sword, famine, and pestilence,

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The words behind it

31 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.

  • וְלָקַחְתִּ֞יand I will take away

    velakachtiH3947 →966 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • שְׁאֵרִ֣ית[the] remnant of

    sheeritH7611 →66 times

  • יְהוּדָ֗הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־who

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • שָׂ֨מוּthey set

    samuH7760 →584 times

  • פְנֵיהֶ֜םfaces their

    feneihemH6440 →2123 times

  • לָב֣וֹאto go

    lavo'H935 →2568 times

  • אֶֽרֶץ־[the] land of

    ʾeretz-H776 →2504 times

  • מִצְרַיִם֮Egypt

    mitzrayimH4714 →641 times

  • לָג֣וּרto sojourn

    lagurH1481 →97 times

  • שָׁם֒there

    shamH8033 →834 times

  • וְתַ֨מּוּand they will meet their end

    vetamuH8552 →63 times

  • כֹ֜לeveryone

    kholH3605 →5413 times

  • בְּאֶ֧רֶץin [the] land of

    beeretzH776 →2504 times

  • מִצְרַ֣יִםEgypt

    mitzrayimH4714 →641 times

  • יִפֹּ֗לוּthey will fall

    yipoluH5307 →435 times

  • בַּחֶ֤רֶבby the sword

    bacherevH2719 →413 times

  • בָּֽרָעָב֙by <the> famine

    baraavH7458 →101 times

  • יִתַּ֔מּוּthey will meet their end

    yitamuH8552 →63 times

  • מִקָּטֹן֙from [the] small

    mikatonH6996 →101 times

  • וְעַד־and unto

    vead-H5704 →1261 times

  • גָּד֔וֹל[the] great

    gadolH1419 →526 times

  • בַּחֶ֥רֶבby the sword

    bacherevH2719 →413 times

  • וּבָרָעָ֖בand by <the> famine

    uvaraavH7458 →101 times

  • יָמֻ֑תוּthey will die

    yamutuH4191 →839 times

  • וְהָיוּ֙and they will become

    vehayuH1961 →3559 times

  • לְאָלָ֣ה<into> an curse

    lealahH423 →35 times

  • לְשַׁמָּ֔ה<into> a horror

    leshamahH8047 →39 times

  • וְלִקְלָלָ֖הand <into> a curse

    veliklalahH7045 →33 times

  • וּלְחֶרְפָּֽה׃and <into> a reproach

    ulecherpahH2781 →73 times

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

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

    Hosea 4:6

    My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 5:13

      Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.

    • Proverbs 19:2

      Even zeal is no good without knowledge, and he who hurries his footsteps misses the mark.

    • Hosea 6:6

      For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

    • 2 Corinthians 4:3–6

      And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

    • Hosea 4:1

      Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God…

  • Through

    Isaiah 65:15

    You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 62:2

      Nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will bestow.

    • Romans 9:26

      and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

  • Through

    Jeremiah 29:18

    I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among…

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 29:8

      Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and mockery, as you can see with your own eyes.

Where this verse is studied

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About Jeremiah

This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.