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Jeremiah 44:13

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I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt, just as I punished Jerusalem, by sword and famine and plague,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence;

KJV

For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:

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This verse in Jeremiah 44

Commentary

3 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 Awakening1 voice

For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt,....

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

only fugitives Jeremiah and Baruch returned from there, for Nebuchadnezzar exiled them when the land of Egypt was delivered into his hand in the twenty-seventh year of his reign (Ezek.:17). So we learned in Seder Olam (ch. 26).
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Jeremiah 44:14:1, 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. 6 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.

  • וּפָקַדְתִּ֗יand I will visit [judgment]

    ufakadtiH6485 →303 times

  • עַ֤לon

    ʾalH5921 →5755 times

  • הַיּֽוֹשְׁבִים֙those [who] dwell

    haiyoshevimH3427 →1079 times

  • בְּאֶ֣רֶץin [the] land of

    beeretzH776 →2504 times

  • מִצְרַ֔יִםEgypt

    mitzrayimH4714 →641 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֥רjust as

    kaasherH834 →5497 times

  • פָּקַ֖דְתִּיI visited [judgment]

    pakadtiH6485 →303 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • יְרֽוּשָׁלִָ֑םJerusalem

    yerushalimH3389 →643 times

  • בַּחֶ֥רֶבby the sword

    bacherevH2719 →413 times

  • בָּרָעָ֖בby <the> famine

    baraavH7458 →101 times

  • וּבַדָּֽבֶר׃and by <the> pestilence

    uvadaverH1698 →49 times

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

Related verses

7 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.

Jeremiah 43:11He will come and strike down the land of Egypt, bringing death to those destined for death, captivity to those destined for captivity, and the sword to those destined for the sword.5 worksJeremiah 44:27–28I 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 finished off.3 worksJeremiah 11:22So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.3 worksJeremiah 24:10And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”2 worksJeremiah 21:9Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war.2 worksJeremiah 42:18For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
Jeremiah 38:2“This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever surrenders to the Chaldeans will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war, and he will live.2 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

    Jeremiah 21:9

    Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live; he will retain his life like a…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 38:2

      “This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever surrenders to the Chaldeans will live; he will retain his life like a…

    • Jeremiah 39:18

      For I will surely rescue you so that you do not fall by the sword. Because you have trusted in Me, you will escape with your life like a spoil of war, declares the…

    • Jeremiah 45:5

      But as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking! For I will bring disaster on every living creature, declares the LORD, but wherever you go, I will grant your life…

    • Jeremiah 38:17–23

      Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you indeed surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live,…

    • Jeremiah 14:12

      Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 43:11

    He will come and strike down the land of Egypt, bringing death to those destined for death, captivity to those destined for captivity, and the sword to those destined for the sword.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 15:2

      If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword;…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 24:10

    And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 51:19

      These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?

  • Through

    Jeremiah 11:22

    So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 18:21

      Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck…

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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 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.

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