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Jeremiah 42:19

in Jeremiah 42

The LORD has told you, O remnant of Judah, ‘Do not go to Egypt.’ Know for sure that I have warned you today!

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Jehovah hath spoken concerning you, O remnant of Judah, Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified unto you this day.

KJV

The Lord hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.

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This verse in Jeremiah 42

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

I have admonished--literally, "testified," that is, solemnly admonished, having yourselves as My witnesses; so that if ye perish, ye yourselves will have to confess that it was through your own fault, not through ignorance, ye perished.

This site's exposition

Know for sure that I have warned you today!

on Jeremiah 42:19-22

Jeremiah exposes the request as deceit: “you have deceived yourselves by sending me to the LORD your God.” The plan to go to Egypt was made before they asked him to pray. “I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God.”

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

The Lord hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

But it should seem as if they knew not that a prophet was among them. Though this people were as brands plucked out of the fire, yet have they not returned to the Lord. This people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; and contempt of God and his providence, God and his prophets, is still the sin that most easily besets them.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Go ye not into Egypt - Why? Because God knew, such was their miserable propensity to idolatry, that they would there adopt the worship of the country, and serve idols.
The request made in Jer 42:3 has been fulfilled: Yahweh has spoken. The prophet now adds these four verses as a sort of epilogue, in which he urges upon them the several points of the divine message. In the ten days which had intervened between the request and the answer Jeremiah had become aware that neither princes nor people were prepared to obey unless the answer was in accordance with their own wishes. He does therefore his best to convince them, but as usual it was his lot to speak the truth to willful men, and gain no hearing.

The words behind it

14 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.

  • דִּבֶּ֨רhe has spoken

    diberH1696 →1141 times

  • יְהוָ֤הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • עֲלֵיכֶם֙to you

    ʾaleikhemH5921 →5755 times

  • שְׁאֵרִ֣יתO remnant of

    sheeritH7611 →66 times

  • יְהוּדָ֔הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • אַל־may not

    ʾal-H408 →724 times

  • תָּבֹ֖אוּyou go

    tavouH935 →2568 times

  • מִצְרָ֑יִםEgypt

    mitzrayimH4714 →641 times

  • יָדֹ֙עַ֙assuredly <know>

    yadoa'H3045 →945 times

  • תֵּֽדְע֔וּyou will know

    tedeuH3045 →945 times

  • כִּי־that

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • הַעִידֹ֥תִיI have warned

    haidotiH5749 →44 times

  • בָכֶ֖ם<in> <the> you

    vakhem

  • הַיּֽוֹם׃this day

    haiyomH3117 →2304 times

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

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Deuteronomy 17:16But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’5 worksIsaiah 30:1–7“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.4 worksIsaiah 31:1–3Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.3 worksNehemiah 9:26But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.3 worksEzekiel 17:15But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and yet escape?’3 worksNehemiah 9:29–30You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly shrugged their shoulders; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.3 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Ephesians 4:17So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.3 worksEzekiel 2:5And whether they listen or refuse to listen—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them.2 worksJeremiah 38:21But if you refuse to surrender, this is the word that the LORD has shown me:2 worksEzekiel 3:21But if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he heeded your warning, and you will have saved yourself.”2 works2 Chronicles 24:19Nevertheless, the LORD sent prophets to bring the people back to Him and to testify against them; but they would not listen.2 works1 Thessalonians 4:6and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.2 worksDeuteronomy 31:21And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. For I know their inclination, even before I bring them into the land that I swore to give them.”2 worksActs 20:26–27Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.2 works2 Kings 17:13Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”2 worksJeremiah 41:17And they went and stayed in Geruth Chimham, near Bethlehem, in order to proceed into Egypt2 worksActs 2:40With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”1 worksNehemiah 13:15In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.1 works

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

    Deuteronomy 17:16

    But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 31:1–3

      Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy…

    • Ezekiel 17:15

      But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break…

    • Deuteronomy 28:68

      The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but…

    • Hosea 11:5

      Will they not return to the land of Egypt and be ruled by Assyria because they refused to repent?

    • Psalms 20:7

      Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

  • Through

    Nehemiah 9:26

    But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 14:9

      You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.

    • Judges 2:11–12

      And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.

    • Nehemiah 9:18

      Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,

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, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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