Jeremiah 42:18

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
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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. Jeremiah 6:11, Jeremiah 7:20, Jeremiah 39:1-9, Jeremiah 52:4-11, 2 Kings 25:4-7, 2 Chronicles 34:25, 2 Chronicles 36:16-19, Lamentations 2:4, Lamentations 4:11, Ezekiel 22:22, Daniel 9:11, Daniel 9:27, Nahum 1:6, Revelation 14:10, Revelation 16:2-21

ye shall be: Jeremiah 18:16, Jeremiah 24:9, Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 26:6, Jeremiah 29:18, Jeremiah 29:22, Jeremiah 44:12, Deuteronomy 29:21, Deuteronomy 29:22, 1 Kings 9:7-9, Isaiah 65:15, Zechariah 8:13

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

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:38 - General Numbers 5:27 - the woman Nehemiah 1:3 - reproach Psalms 79:4 - become Psalms 89:41 - he is Isaiah 24:2 - as with the people Jeremiah 23:40 - General Jeremiah 44:6 - my fury Jeremiah 44:8 - a curse Jeremiah 44:13 - General Ezekiel 5:14 - I will Ezekiel 20:33 - surely

Cross-References

Genesis 20:11
Abraham replied, "I thought to myself, 'Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.'

Leviticus 25:43
You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God.

Nehemiah 5:9
So I continued, "What you are doing is not right. Shouldn't you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?

Nehemiah 5:15
The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do this because of my fear of God.

Luke 18:2
"In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected men.

Luke 18:4
For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, 'Even though I do not fear God or respect men,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,....

:-;

as mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; like a large hasty shower of rain; or rather like melted metal, which suddenly and swiftly runs, and spreads itself, and burns and consumes with a violent heat; such was the wrath of God on Jerusalem, in the destruction of it by the Chaldeans:

so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt; as soon as they had well got there, quickly after they were settled there; for it was in the time of the then present king of Egypt, Pharaohhophra, and by the then present king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, that the destruction of Egypt was, in which these Jews suffered:

and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; men should be astonished at the hand of God upon them, reproach them for their sins; and when they made any imprecation on themselves, it would be in this form, if it be so, let the same calamities come upon me as upon the Jews in Egypt:

and ye shall see this place no more; and so their case would be worse than their brethren in Babylon; who, after a term of years were expired, would return to their own land, which these would never see any more.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A curse - contempt, or ignominy.