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Jeremiah 44:28

in Jeremiah 44

Those who escape the sword will return from Egypt to Judah, few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah who went to dwell in the land of Egypt will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs!

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And they that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs.

KJV

Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.

This verse in Jeremiah 44

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

A band easily counted, whereas they were expecting to return triumphantly in large numbers. shall know--most of them experimentally, and to their cost. whose words . . . mine, or theirs--Hebrew, "that from Me and them." Jehovah's words are His threats of destruction to the Jews; theirs, the assertion that they expected all goods from their gods (Jer 44:17), &c.

This site's exposition

Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the Lord

on Jeremiah 44:24-28

The oath is renewed with the women addressed by name a second time, since their vows drove the defense in the verses before. Verse 26 has the Lord swear by his own great name that it will no longer be truly invoked by this company in Egypt, a bitter answer to their own vows to the queen of heaven in verse 25. Verse 28 turns the outcome into a public verdict rather than a further argument, that the small number who escape shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs, settling the dispute by what actually happens, the same test set at Deuteronomy 18:22.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

They said that they should recover themselves when they returned to worship the queen of heaven; God said they should ruin themselves; and now the event will show which was in the right. The contest between God and sinners is whose word shall stand, whose will shall be done, and who shall get the better.

The words behind it

24 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.

  • וּפְלִיטֵ֨יand escapees of

    ufeliteiH641224 times

  • חֶ֜רֶב[the] sword

    cherevH2719413 times

  • יְשֻׁב֨וּןthey will return !

    yeshuvunH77251056 times

  • מִן־from

    min-H44801188 times

  • אֶ֧רֶץ[the] land of

    ʾeretzH7762504 times

  • מִצְרַ֛יִםEgypt

    mitzrayimH4714641 times

  • אֶ֥רֶץ[the] land of

    ʾeretzH7762504 times

  • יְהוּדָ֖הJudah

    yehudahH3063819 times

  • מְתֵ֣יmen of

    meteiH4962

  • מִסְפָּ֑רnumber

    misparH4557134 times

  • וְֽיָדְע֞וּand they will know

    veyadeuH3045945 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • שְׁאֵרִ֣ית[the] remnant of

    sheeritH761166 times

  • יְהוּדָ֗הJudah

    yehudahH3063819 times

  • הַבָּאִ֤יםwho went

    habaimH9352568 times

  • לְאֶֽרֶץ־to [the] land of

    leeretz-H7762504 times

  • מִצְרַ֙יִם֙Egypt

    mitzrayimH4714641 times

  • לָג֣וּרto sojourn

    lagurH148197 times

  • שָׁ֔םthere

    shamH8033834 times

  • דְּבַר־[the] word of

    devar-H16971440 times

  • מִ֥יwhom?

    miH4310423 times

  • יָק֖וּםwill it be established

    yakumH6965628 times

  • מִמֶּ֥נִּיfrom me

    mimeniH44801188 times

  • וּמֵהֶֽם׃and from <the> them

    umehem

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

The walk

7 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 44:14

    so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone to reside in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, where they long to return and live; for…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 22:26–27

      I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.

    • Romans 9:27

      Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

    • Jeremiah 42:17

      So all who resolve to go to Egypt to reside there will die by sword and famine and plague. Not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring upon them.’

    • Isaiah 4:2

      On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.

    • Jeremiah 44:27–28

      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…

  • Through

    Isaiah 10:19

    The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 21:17

      The remaining archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.” For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.

    • Isaiah 37:36

      Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

About Jeremiah

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.