‏ Jeremiah 42:14-22

we will go Jer 41:17, Jer 43:7; Deut 29:19; Isa 30:16, Isa 31:1

nor hear Jer 4:19, Jer 4:21; Exod 16:3, Exod 17:3; Num 11:5, Num 16:13

If If ye are determined to go into Egypt, the evils which ye dreaded by staying in your own land shall overtake and destroy you there; "and there shall ye die." God turned the policy of the wicked to their own destruction; for while they thought themselves safe in Egypt, there Nebuchadnezzar destroyed both them and the Egyptians. Jer 42:17, Jer 44:12-14; Gen 31:21; Deut 17:16; Dan 11:17; Luke 9:51

that the sword Jer 42:13, Jer 44:13, Jer 44:27; Deut 28:15, Deut 28:22, Deut 28:45; Prov 13:21; Ezek 11:8; Amos 9:1-4; Zech 1:6; John 11:48

follow close Heb. cleave

there ye Jer 44:11-12, Jer 44:27

it be with all the men Heb. all the men be

they shall Jer 42:22, Jer 24:10, Jer 44:14

none Jer 44:28

As mine The people had witnessed the tremendous effects of the wrath of God, in the siege and destruction of Jerusalem; and had they not been past feeling, this denunciation must have made their ears tingle, and appalled their very souls. Jer 6:11, Jer 7:20, Jer 39:1-9, Jer 52:4-11; 2Kgs 25:4-7; 2Chr 34:25, 2Chr 36:16-19; Lam 2:4, Lam 4:11; Ezek 22:22; Dan 9:11, Dan 9:27; Nah 1:6; Rev 14:10, Rev 16:2-21

ye shall be Jer 18:16, Jer 24:9, Jer 25:9, Jer 26:6, Jer 29:18, Jer 29:22, Jer 44:12; Deut 29:21-22; 1Kgs 9:7-9; Isa 65:15; Zech 8:13

and ye shall see Jer 22:10-12, Jer 22:27

Go God knew, that such was their miserable propensity to idolatry, that they would adopt the idolatrous worship of Egypt. Add to which, their going thither for protection was in effect refusing to submit to the king of Babylon, to whom God had decreed the rule of Judah and the neighbouring kingdoms. Deut 17:16; Isa 30:1-7, Isa 31:1-3; Ezek 17:15

know Jer 38:21; Ezek 3:21; Acts 20:26-27

admonished you Heb. testified against you, Deut 31:21; 2Chr 24:19; Neh 9:26, Neh 9:29-30; Acts 2:40; Eph 4:17; 1Thess 4:6

For ye God made known to the prophet their dissimulation; which he shunned not to declare to them. Jer 3:10, Jer 17:10; Ps 18:44, Ps 65:3; Ezek 14:3-4, Ezek 33:31; Matt 22:15-18, Matt 22:35; Gal 6:7

dissembled in your hearts Heb. have used deceit against your souls, Num 16:38; Jas 1:22

Pray Jer 42:2

I have Deut 11:26-27; Ezek 2:7, Ezek 3:17; Acts 20:20, Acts 20:26-27

but Jer 7:24-27; Deut 29:19; Zech 7:11-12

know Jer 42:17, Jer 43:11; Ezek 5:3-4, Ezek 6:11

in the Hos 9:6

to go and to sojourn or, to go to sojourn
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