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Jeremiah 42:13

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But if you say, ‘We will not stay in this land,’ and you thus disobey the voice of the LORD your God,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land; so that ye obey not the voice of Jehovah your God,

KJV

But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the Lord your God,

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This verse in Jeremiah 42

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

We will not stay in this land

on Jeremiah 42:13-18

If the remnant goes to Egypt, “the sword you fear will overtake you there.” Barnes notes sword, famine, and plague are the three judgments named throughout the book. As wrath was poured out on Jerusalem, it will be poured out on them, and they “will never see this place again.”

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

But if ye say, we will not dwell in this land,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

They are charged with dissimulation in their asking what God's will was in this matter and disobedience when they were told what it was; and sentence is accordingly passed upon them,

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

the sound of the horn which the lookouts sound to warn the people.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Jeremiah 42:14:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 7 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

12 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.

  • וְאִם־and if

    veim-H518 →1069 times

  • אֹמְרִ֣ים[are] saying

    ʾomerimH559 →5305 times

  • אַתֶּ֔םyou

    ʾatemH859 →1094 times

  • לֹ֥אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • נֵשֵׁ֖בwe will remain

    neshevH3427 →1079 times

  • בָּאָ֣רֶץin the land

    baaretzH776 →2504 times

  • הַזֹּ֑את<the> this

    hazotH2063 →603 times

  • לְבִלְתִּ֣יto not

    leviltiH1115 →112 times

  • שְׁמֹ֔עַto listen

    shemoa'H8085 →1159 times

  • בְּק֖וֹלto [the] voice of

    bekolH6963 →506 times

  • יְהוָ֥הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃God your

    ʾeloheikhemH430 →2601 times

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

Related verses

4 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

    Exodus 5:2

    But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”

    it leads to

    • Exodus 3:19

      But I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go unless a mighty hand compels him.

    • Job 21:15

      Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

    • 2 Kings 18:35

      Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

  • Through

    Jeremiah 42:10

    ‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I will relent of the disaster…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 24:6

      I will keep My eyes on them for good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.

    • Ezekiel 36:36

      Then the nations around you that remain will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt what was destroyed, and I have replanted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do…

    • Jeremiah 31:28

      Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.

    • Joel 2:13

      So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

    • Jeremiah 33:7

      I will restore Judah and Israel from captivity and will rebuild them as in former times.

About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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