Jeremiah 42:16

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁷After ten days, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, ⁸and he summoned Johanan son of Kareah, all the commanders of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest. ⁹Jeremiah told them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition: ¹⁰If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I shall relent of the disaster I have brought upon you. ¹¹Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you now fear; do not be afraid of him, declares the LORD, for I am with you to save you and deliver you from him. ¹²And I will show you compassion, and he will have compassion on you and restore you to your own land. ¹³But if you say, 'We will not stay in this land,' and so disobey the voice of the LORD your God, ¹⁴and if you say, 'No, but we will go to the land of Egypt and live there, where we will not see war, or hear the sound of the trumpet, or hunger for food,' ¹⁵then hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah! This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: If you are determined to go to Egypt and reside there, ¹⁶then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there.

Bible Verse Review
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that the sword: Jeremiah 42:13, Jeremiah 44:13, Jeremiah 44:27, Deuteronomy 28:15, Deuteronomy 28:22, Deuteronomy 28:45, Proverbs 13:21, Ezekiel 11:8, Amos 9:1-4, Zechariah 1:6, John 11:48

follow close: Heb. cleave

there ye: Jeremiah 44:11, Jeremiah 44:12, Jeremiah 44:27

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 17:16 - Ye shall henceforth 1 Chronicles 21:12 - to be destroyed Jeremiah 41:18 - for they Lamentations 5:9 - General Ezekiel 5:12 - and I will draw Ezekiel 12:14 - I will draw 1 Thessalonians 5:4 - overtake

Cross-References

Genesis 42:11
We are all sons of one man. Your servants are honest men, not spies."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then it shall come to pass,.... That the various judgments following should come upon them:

[that] the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; that is, the sword; of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, which they feared they should fall by in Judea; this should come after them in Egypt, and there overtake them, as it did; Egypt being destroyed by the king of Babylon, as it was foretold it should, Jeremiah 46:25;

and the famine, whereof you were afraid, shalt follow close after you there in Egypt; the famine they were afraid would come upon them in Judea, should pursue them, overtake them, seize on them, and cleave unto them, in Egypt; thus the evils they thought to escape, by moving from one place, should befall them in another; there is no fleeing from the presence, power, and hand of God:

and there ye shall die; either by the sword, or by famine, or by pestilence, as in the Jeremiah 42:17.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Translate it: “Then shall the sword of which ye are afraid reach you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine whereof ye pine shall cleave close unto you in Egypt, and there shall ye die; and all the men who have set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there shall die ... by the pestilence, nor shall they have anyone that is left or escaped from the evil which I will bring upon them.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 42:16. The sword - and the famine - shall follow close after you — Shall be at your heels; shall overtake and destroy you; for there ye shall die.