Jeremiah 42:16 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 42:16

then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there.

BSB

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ASV

then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, whereof ye are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

KJV

Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

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Commentary

1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

What our hearts are most set on often proves fatal to us. Those who think to escape troubles by changing their place will find them wherever they go (Eze 11:8). The "sword" here is that of Nebuchadnezzar, who fulfilled the prediction in his expedition to Africa (according to MEGASTHENES, a heathen writer), 300 B.C.

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהָיְתָ֣ה	ve.ha.ye.Tah	and it will be	H1961 →
הַחֶ֗רֶב	ha.Che.rev	the sword	H2719 →
אֲשֶׁ֤ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
אַתֶּם֙	'a.Tem	you	H859 →
יְרֵאִ֣ים	ye.re.'Im	[are] afraid	H3373 →
מִמֶּ֔נָּה	mi.Me.nah	from it	H4480 →
שָׁ֛ם	sham	there	H8033 →
תַּשִּׂ֥יג	ta.Sig	it will overtake	H5381 →
אֶתְכֶ֖ם	'et.Khem	<obj.> you	H853 →
בְּאֶ֣רֶץ	be.'E.retz	in [the] land of	H776 →
מִצְרָ֑יִם	mitz.Ra.yim	Egypt	H4714 →
וְהָרָעָ֞ב	ve.ha.ra.'Av	and the famine	H7458 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	which	H834 →
אַתֶּ֣ם׀	'a.Tem	you	H859 →
דֹּאֲגִ֣ים	do.'a.Gim	[are] anxious	H1672 →
מִמֶּ֗נּוּ	mi.Me.nu	from it	H4480 →
שָׁ֣ם	sham	there	H8033 →
יִדְבַּ֧ק	yid.Bak	it will pursue closely	H1692 →
אַחֲרֵיכֶ֛ם	'a.cha.rei.Khem	behind you	H310 →
מִצְרַ֖יִם	mitz.Ra.yim	Egypt	H4714 →
וְשָׁ֥ם	ve.Sham	and there	H8033 →
תָּמֻֽתוּ׃	ta.Mu.tu	you will die	H4191 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Deuteronomy 28:22
The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
leads to
- Leviticus 26:16
  then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed…
- Amos 4:9
  “I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
- Haggai 2:17
  I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.
- 1 Kings 8:37
  When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
Through
John 11:48
If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
leads to
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15–16
  who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
- Daniel 9:26–27
  Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end…
- Acts 5:28
  “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”
Through
Jeremiah 44:27
I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are…
leads to
- 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.