Jeremiah 42:21

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.

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I have: Deuteronomy 11:26, Deuteronomy 11:27, Ezekiel 2:7, Ezekiel 3:17, Acts 20:20, Acts 20:26, Acts 20:27

but: Jeremiah 7:24-27, Deuteronomy 29:19, Zechariah 7:11, Zechariah 7:12

Reciprocal: Exodus 8:29 - deal Judges 6:10 - ye have Ezekiel 14:3 - should

Cross-References

Genesis 41:9
Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, "Today I recall my failures.

Genesis 42:3
So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

Genesis 42:4
But Jacob did not send Joseph's brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, "I am afraid that harm might befall him."

Genesis 42:8
Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.

Genesis 42:9
Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, "You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable."

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

Genesis 42:12
"No," he told them. "You have come to see if our land is vulnerable."

Genesis 42:23
They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.

Genesis 42:27
At the place where they lodged for the night, one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of the sack.

Genesis 42:28
"My money has been returned!" he said to his brothers. "It is here in my sack." Their hearts sank, and trembling, they turned to one another and said, "What is this that God has done to us?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And [now] I have this day declared [it] unto you,.... The whole will of God, and had not kept back anything from them:

but ye have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God; or, "ye will not obey" c; the prophet knew they would not obey the command of the Lord not to go into Egypt, either by his conversation with them during the ten days the answer of the Lord was deferred, by which he plainly saw they were determined to go into Egypt; or by their countenances and behaviour, while he was delivering the Lord's message to them; by what he observed in them, he knew what was said was not agreeable to them, and that their mind was to go into Egypt: or he had this, as others think, by divine revelation; though without that he knew the cast of this people, and what a rebellious and disobedient people they were, and had been, never obeying the voice of the Lord:

nor any [thing] for which he hath sent me unto you: not anyone particular thing respecting this present affair; nor indeed any of his prophecies had they regarded, with which he had been sent to them before.

c ולא שמעתם "et tamen non vultis parere", Vatablus.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 42:21. Ye have not obeyed the voice — Though ye have requested to have this particular revelation of the Divine will, and promised obedience, yet have ye not done one thing for which ye sent me to inquire of the Lord.