Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, came near, Jer 40:13Jer 41:11Jer 6:13Jer 40:8Jer 42:8Jer 44:12Act 8:10Jer 8:10 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to the LORD your God, even for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us, Jer 36:7Lev 26:221Sa 12:191Sa 7:8Act 8:24Isa 1:9Isa 37:4Jas 5:16 that the LORD your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the things that we should do.” Psa 86:11Pro 3:6Ezr 8:21Jer 6:16Mic 4:2Psa 25:4-51Ki 8:36Deu 5:26
Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to the LORD your God according to your words; and it will happen that whatever thing the LORD answers you, I will declare it to you. I will keep nothing back from you.” 1Sa 12:231Sa 3:17-18Exo 8:29Psa 40:10Act 20:20Jer 23:28Act 20:271Ki 22:14-16
Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don’t do according to all the word with which the LORD your God sends you to tell us. Gen 31:50Jdg 11:10Mal 2:14Mal 3:5Mic 1:2Rev 1:5Rev 3:141Sa 12:5 Whether it is good, or whether it is bad, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.” Jer 7:23Deu 5:29Rom 8:7Deu 5:33Deu 6:2-3Exo 24:7Isa 3:10Jos 24:24
After ten days, the LORD’s word came to Jeremiah. Psa 27:14Isa 28:16Hab 2:3 Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, Jer 42:1Jer 40:13Jer 40:8Jer 41:11-16Jer 43:2-5 and said to them, “The LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him, says: 2Ki 19:42Ki 19:6Jer 42:22Ki 19:20-372Ki 22:15-20 ‘If you will still live in this land, then I will build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you. Ezk 36:36Jer 31:28Jer 24:6Jol 2:13Amo 7:6Jer 33:7Amo 7:3Exo 32:14 Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Don’t be afraid of him,’ says the LORD, ‘for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand. Rom 8:31Isa 43:2Jer 1:19Jer 1:82Ch 32:7-8Isa 43:52Ti 4:17Deu 20:4 I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land. Neh 1:11Pro 16:7Psa 106:45-46
“‘But if you say, “We will not dwell in this land,” so that you don’t obey the LORD your God’s voice, Jer 44:16Exo 5:2Jer 42:10 saying, “No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there we will dwell;”’ Jer 4:19Jer 41:17Exo 16:3Isa 31:1Jer 4:21Num 11:4-5Deu 29:19Exo 17:3 now therefore hear the LORD’s word, O remnant of Judah! The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to live there, Deu 17:16Jer 44:12-14Jer 42:17Dan 11:17Gen 31:21Luk 9:51 then it will happen that the sword, which you fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, will follow close behind you there in Egypt; and you will die there. Ezk 11:8Jer 44:27Amo 9:1-4Jhn 11:48Deu 28:15Deu 28:22Deu 28:45Jer 42:13 So will it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there. They will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. None of them will remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.’ Jer 42:22Jer 24:10Jer 44:13-14Jer 44:28 For the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and my wrath has been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you, when you enter into Egypt; and you will be an object of horror, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you will see this place no more.’ Jer 7:20Jer 18:16Jer 29:18Jer 39:1-92Ch 36:16-19Deu 29:21-22Isa 65:15Jer 22:27
“The LORD has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, ‘Don’t go into Egypt!’ Know certainly that I have testified to you today. Deu 17:16Isa 30:1-7Ezk 17:15Isa 31:1-3Neh 9:26Neh 9:29-301Th 4:62Ch 24:19 For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the LORD our God; and according to all that the LORD our God says, so declare to us, and we will do it.’ Ezk 14:3-4Ezk 33:31Gal 6:7Jas 1:22Jer 17:10Jer 3:10Jer 42:2Mat 22:15-18 I have declared it to you today; but you have not obeyed the LORD your God’s voice in anything for which he has sent me to you. Ezk 2:7Act 20:26-27Zec 7:11-12Act 20:20Deu 11:26-27Deu 29:19Ezk 3:17Jer 7:24-27 Now therefore know certainly that you will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live.” Jer 42:17Ezk 6:11Hos 9:6Jer 43:11Ezk 5:3-4