Jeremiah 16:21 KJV — MannaFest

Jeremiah 16:21

Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The Lord.

KJV

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ASV

Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this once will I cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is Jehovah.

WEB

“Therefore behold, I will inform them, and this time I will make them know My power and My might; then they will know that My name is the LORD.

YLT

Therefore, lo, I am causing them to know at this time, I cause them to know My hand and My might, And they have known that My name is Jehovah!

DBT

Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is Jehovah.

About this book

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Jeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.

Author: Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
Date: Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile

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12 verses on the floor

Psalms 83:18
That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth.
Psalms 9:16
The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
Jeremiah 33:2
Thus saith the Lord the maker thereof, the Lord that formed it, to establish it; the Lord is his name;
Amos 5:8
Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name:
Isaiah 43:3
For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.

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This he foretold, but few regarded the prediction; therefore he is to show that he is himself fully satisfied in the truth of it. Others go on in their usual course, but he, in the prospect of these sad times, is forbidden and therefore forbears marriage, mourning for the dead, and mirth.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

We are now sensible that our fathers were cheated in their idolatrous worship; it did not prove what it promised, and therefore what have we to do any more with it?" Note, It were well if the disappointment which some have met with in the service of sin, and the pernicious consequences of it to them, might prevail to deter others from treading in their steps.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

And they shall know that my name is Jehovah, a God with whom there is no contending, who gives being to threatenings and puts life into them as well as promises." II. Yet he has mercy in store for them, intimations of which come in here for the encouragement of the prophet himself and of those few among them that tremble at God's word. It was said, with an air of severity (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Note, So stupid are we that nothing less than the mighty hand of divine grace, known experimentally, can make us know rightly the name of God as it is revealed to us. Their deliverance out of captivity shall be a type and figure of this great salvation to be wrought out by the Messiah, who shall gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Therefore--In order that all may be turned from idols to Jehovah, He will now give awful proof of His divine power in the judgments He will inflict. this once--If the punishments I have heretofore inflicted have not been severe enough to teach them. my name . . .

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Therefore - Because all the mercy I have shewed them, will not learn them to know my might, I will once for all make them to understand it, by the dreadful strokes of my vengeance.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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H136961× in canon H2005316× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

JER 16:21PSA 83:18 EXO 6:3
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JER 16:21ISA 43:3 ISA 60:16
JER 16:21ISA 43:3 ISA 45:15
JER 16:21AMO 5:8 AMO 4:13
JER 16:21ISA 43:3 2CH 14:9-14
JER 16:21ISA 43:3 ISA 49:26
JER 16:21ISA 43:3 EXO 20:2
JER 16:21AMO 5:8 JOB 9:9

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