Jeremiah 42 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

The Flight to Egypt Forbidden

Escape to Egypt Is Forbidden

Jer 42:1Now all the captains of the forces, Johanan the son of Kareah, Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people, from the least to the greatest, came near

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Jer 42:2and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please, let our petition be acceptable to you, and pray for us to the LORD your God, for all this remnant (since we are left but a few of many, as you can see),

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Jer 42:3“that the LORD your God may show us the way in which we should walk and the thing we should do.”

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Jer 42:4Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard. Indeed, I will pray to the LORD your God according to your words, and it shall be, that whatever the LORD answers you, I will declare it to you. I will keep nothing back from you.”

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Jer 42:5So they said to Jeremiah, “Let the LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not do according to everything which the LORD your God sends us by you.

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Jer 42:6“Whether it is pleasing or displeasing, 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.”

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Jer 42:7And it happened after ten days that the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah.

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Jer 42:8Then he called Johanan the son of Kareah, all the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

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Jer 42:9and said to them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition before Him:

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Jer 42:10‘If you will still remain 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 relent concerning the disaster that I have brought upon you.

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Jer 42:11‘Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; do not be afraid of him,’ says the LORD, ‘for I am with you, to save you and deliver you from his hand.

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Jer 42:12‘And I will show you mercy, that he may have mercy on you and cause you to return to your own land.’

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Jer 42:13“But if you say, ‘We will not dwell in this land,’ disobeying the voice of the LORD your God,

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Jer 42:14“saying, ‘No, but we will go to the land of Egypt where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor be hungry for bread, and there we will dwell’—

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Jer 42:15“Then hear now the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah! Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘If you wholly set your faces to enter Egypt, and go to dwell there,

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Jer 42:16‘then it shall be that the sword which you feared shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; the famine of which you were afraid shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there you shall die.

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Jer 42:17‘So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to dwell there. They shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. And none of them shall remain or escape from the disaster that I will bring upon them.’

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Jer 42:18“For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘As My anger and My fury have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so will My fury be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. And you shall be an oath, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.’

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Jer 42:19“The LORD has said concerning you, O remnant of Judah, ‘Do not go to Egypt!’ Know certainly that I have admonished you this day.

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Jer 42:20“For you were hypocrites in your hearts when you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the LORD our God, and according to all that the LORD your God says, so declare to us and we will do it.’

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Jer 42:21“And I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, or anything which He has sent you by me.

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Jer 42:22“Now therefore, know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to dwell.”

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