Jeremiah 42:13
But if you say, We have no desire to go on living in this land; and do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God,
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Jeremiah 42:13
But if you say, We have no desire to go on living in this land; and do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God,
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Jeremiah 42:14
Saying, No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will not see war, or be hearing the sound of the horn, or be in need of food; there we will make our living-place;
Jeremiah 42:15
Then give ear now to the word of the Lord, O you last of Judah: the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, If your minds are fixed on going into Egypt and stopping there;
Jeremiah 42:16
Then it will come about that the sword, which is the cause of your fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and need of food, which you are fearing, will go after you there in Egypt; and there death will come to you.
Jeremiah 42:17
Such will be the fate of all the men whose minds are fixed on going into Egypt and stopping there; they will come to their end by the sword, by being short of food, and by disease: not one of them will keep his life or get away from the evil which I will send on them.
Deuteronomy 17:16
And he is not to get together a great army of horses for himself, or make the people go back to Egypt to get horses for him: because the Lord has said, You will never again go back that way.
Jeremiah 42:22
And now be certain that you will come to your end by the sword and by being short of food and by disease, in the place to which you are pleased to go for a living-place.
Jeremiah 44:16
As for the word which you have said to us in the name of the Lord, we will not give ear to you.
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Jeremiah 42:10
If you still go on living in the land, then I will go on building you up and not pulling you down, planting you and not uprooting you: for my purpose of doing evil to you has been changed.
Jeremiah 42:11
Have no fear of the king of Babylon, of whom you are now in fear; have no fear of him, says the Lord: for I am with you to keep you safe and to give you salvation from his hands.
Jeremiah 42:12
And I will have mercy on you, so that he may have mercy on you and let you go back to your land.
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