“ ‘But if you say, “We will not dwell in this land;” so that you don’t obey Yahweh your God’s voice, saying, “No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:” ’ now therefore hear Yahweh’s word, O remnant of Judah: Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to live there; then it will happen that the sword, which you fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, will follow close behind you there in Egypt; and you will die there. So will it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there. They will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. None of them will remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.’ For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and my wrath has been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you, when you enter into Egypt; and you will be an object of horror, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you will see this place no more.’
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“ ‘But if you say, “We will not dwell in this land;” so that you don’t obey Yahweh your God’s voice,
saying, “No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:” ’
now therefore hear Yahweh’s word, O remnant of Judah: Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to live there;
then it will happen that the sword, which you fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, will follow close behind you there in Egypt; and you will die there.
So will it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there. They will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. None of them will remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.’
For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and my wrath has been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you, when you enter into Egypt; and you will be an object of horror, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you will see this place no more.’
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But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the LORD your God,
Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;
Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
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; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
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But if ye say: We will not abide in this land; so that ye hearken not to the voice of the LORD your God;
saying: No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the horn, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we abide;
now therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah: Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;
then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
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, so shall My fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt; and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
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- Jeremiah 44:16 (v13) “As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.
- Jeremiah 7:20 (v18) Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man, on animal, on the trees of the…
- Jeremiah 42:22 (v17) Now therefore know certainly that you will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence in the place where you desire to go to…
- Jeremiah 44:27 (v16) Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be consumed by the sword…
- Ezekiel 11:8 (v16) You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
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- Deuteronomy 17:16 (v15) Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because…
- Jeremiah 4:19 (v14) My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my…
- Jeremiah 18:16 (v18) to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.
- Jeremiah 24:10 (v17) I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they are consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to…
- Jeremiah 29:18 (v18) I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among…
- Jeremiah 39:1-9 (v18) In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem,…
- Jeremiah 41:17 (v14) They departed and lived in Geruth Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt
- Jeremiah 44:12-14 (v15) I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there, and they will all be consumed. They…
- Jeremiah 44:13-14 (v17) For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence;…
- Jeremiah 44:28 (v17) Those who escape the sword will return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah few in number. All the remnant of Judah, who have…
- Amos 9:1-4 (v16) I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in…
- Exodus 5:2 (v13) Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel…
- Exodus 16:3 (v14) and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots,…
- Numbers 11:4-5 (v14) The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to…
- Deuteronomy 29:21-22 (v18) Yahweh will set him apart for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the…
- 2 Chronicles 36:16-19 (v18) but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people,…
- Isaiah 31:1 (v14) Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they…
- Isaiah 65:15 (v18) You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you. He will call his servants by another name,
- Jeremiah 4:21 (v14) How long will I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?
- Jeremiah 22:27 (v18) But to the land to which their soul longs to return, there they will not return.”
- Jeremiah 24:9 (v18) I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt…
- Jeremiah 42:17 (v15) So will it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there. They will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the…
- Jeremiah 44:12 (v18) I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there, and they will all be consumed. They…
- John 11:48 (v16) If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
- Genesis 31:21 (v15) So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
- Exodus 17:3 (v14) The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill…
- Numbers 16:13 (v14) Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also…
- Deuteronomy 28:15 (v16) But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which…
- Deuteronomy 28:22 (v16) Yahweh will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew. They…
- Deuteronomy 28:45 (v16) All these curses will come on you, and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your…
- Deuteronomy 29:19 (v14) and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the…
- 1 Kings 9:7-9 (v18) then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of…
- 2 Kings 25:4-7 (v18) Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the…
- 2 Chronicles 34:25 (v18) Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their…
- Proverbs 13:21 (v16) Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.
- Isaiah 30:16 (v14) but you said, “No, for we will flee on horses;” therefore you will flee; and, “We will ride on the swift;” therefore those who pursue you…
- Jeremiah 6:11 (v18) Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of…
- Jeremiah 22:10-12 (v18) Don’t weep for the dead. Don’t bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he will return no more, and not see his native…
- Jeremiah 25:9 (v18) behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my…
- Jeremiah 26:6 (v18) then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”
- Jeremiah 29:22 (v18) A curse will be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab,…
- Jeremiah 42:10 (v13) ‘If you will still live 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…
- Jeremiah 42:13 (v16) “ ‘But if you say, “We will not dwell in this land;” so that you don’t obey Yahweh your God’s voice,
- Jeremiah 43:7 (v14) and they came into the land of Egypt; for they didn’t obey Yahweh’s voice: and they came to Tahpanhes.
- Jeremiah 44:11-13 (v16) “Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah. I will…
- Jeremiah 52:4-11 (v18) In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his…
- Lamentations 2:4 (v18) He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary. Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye. In the…
- Lamentations 4:11 (v18) Yahweh has accomplished his wrath. He has poured out his fierce anger. He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.
- Ezekiel 22:22 (v18) As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you will be melted in the middle of it; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured…
- Daniel 9:11 (v18) Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice. “Therefore the curse and the oath written…
- Daniel 9:27 (v18) He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On…
- Daniel 11:17 (v15) He will set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and with him equitable conditions. He will perform them. He will give…
- Nahum 1:6 (v18) Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are…
- Zechariah 1:6 (v16) But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said,…
- Zechariah 8:13 (v18) It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be…
- Luke 9:51 (v15) It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem
- Revelation 14:10 (v18) he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and…
- Revelation 16:2-21 (v18) The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast,…
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain On vv13, 14, 15, 18 God having promised, that the counsel he gave to…
God having promised, that the counsel he gave to the Jews would be good and safe, now, on the other hand, threatens them, that if they disobeyed, everything they would attempt would end miserably. They had not expressly asked whether it would be for their good to go into Egypt, or whether it would be pleasing to God; but God, who penetrates into all hidden purposes, anticipated them, and declared that their going would be unhappy, if they fled into Egypt. We hence see how the Prophet, or rather God himself, who spoke by his servant, tried by all means to keep them in the way of duty.
He then says, If ye say, We shall not dwell in this land, it shall be ill with you, he says: but before he denounced punishment, he shewed that they deserved to be destroyed, if they went to Egypt; for had the thing been in itself lawful, yet to attempt such a thing against the express will of God was, as we know, an impious and a diabolical presumption and rashness. God had forbidden them specifically in his Law ever to set their hearts on Egypt, (Deuteronomy 17:16;) and he had often confirmed the same thing by his Prophets, (Isaiah 30:2; Isaiah 31:1;) and now again he seals the former prophecies, as he expressly forbids them to go to Egypt. The Prophet then sets this crime before their eyes: “If ye flee into Egypt, what is it that compels you? even because ye will not obey God.” There is then great weight in these words, Nor obey the voice of Jehovah your God; as though he had said, that they could not think of Egypt, except they designedly, as it were, rejected the authority of God, and resisted his counsel.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv16, 18 Thus God turneth the policy of the wicked to…
Thus God turneth the policy of the wicked to their own destruction: for they thought themselves sure in Egypt, and there Nebuchadnezzar destroyed them and the Egyptians, Jer. 46:25.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv13–18 Jer 42:13 But if ye say, We will not…
Jer 42:13 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the LORD your God,
Ver. 13. But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land.] Because more barren than Egypt, and besides beset with many and mighty enemies
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Neither obey the voice of the Lord your God.] Which you ought to do, whatever come of it, since rebellion is as witchcraft. {1Sa 15:22-23}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv13–18 Our translation a little darkens the sense, translating the…
Our translation a little darkens the sense, translating the Hebrew particle בלתי
neither, which signifies no more than not, or by no means, Num 14:16; 1Sa 2:2; 20:26; Hos 13:4; and it is certain here is but one thing spoken of, for the thing wherein they disobeyed the voice of the Lord was not continuing in their own land, but going into the land of Egypt.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv13–18 Saying, no, but we will go into the land…
Saying, no, but we will go into the land of Egypt,.... It was all one as if they had said, no, we will not obey the voice of the Lord to continue in our own land; we are determined to go into Egypt, induced by the following reasons:
where we shall see no war; either internal, or with a foreign enemy; as both of late in their own land, and which they feared would be again; but promised themselves exemption from both in the land of Egypt, and therefore coveted to dwell there:
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nor hear the sound of the trumpet; neither hear of wars nor rumours of wars; not the sound of the trumpet in the armies of the enemy, or among themselves, to gather together and prepare for battle; or, as Jarchi thinks, the sound of the trumpet blown by the watchman, giving notice to the people of the approach of an enemy:
nor have hunger of bread; as they had had while Judea was invaded and Jerusalem besieged, and a foreign army in the land; and though they had no reason to fear this now, yet they thought they should be more out of the danger of it in Egypt, a fruitful country, overflowed by the Nile:
and there will we dwell; in peace, prosperity, and safety: this was their resolution, to go and abide there; and this their confidence, that such would be their happy state.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv15–16 Verse 15. If ye - set your faces to…
Verse 15. If ye - set your faces to enter into Egypt, &c.] Every evil that ye dreaded by staying in your own land shall come upon you in Egypt.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v13 Jer 42:13-18. But if ye say, We will not…
Jer 42:13-18. But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey — Hebrew, לבלתי שׁמע, so as not to obey. If they did not continue in their own land, they disobeyed the voice of the Lord. Saying, No; we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, &c. — Their great sin was unbelief: they would not take the promise of God as a security to them for a quiet and peaceable abode, and a supply of all their wants, in Judea: but they resolved to go into Egypt, where they expected to have a greater certainty of peace and plenty. Therefore the Lord declares by his prophet, that the evils which they feared in Canaan should overtake them with double violence in Egypt, namely, both the sword and famine, by which they should die, and that they should be an execration and an astonishment: a curse and a reproach: (Jer 42:18,) as God had threatened to make the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Jer 24:9; Jer 29:18, where see the notes. And ye shall see this place no more — And in this, saith God, will I deal worse with you than with those who were carried captive to Babylon; many of them shall return, after the time fixed for the duration of their captivity is expired, but you shall return into this land no more. There was this aggravation in the sin of those Jews to whom God was now speaking by his prophet, that they had lately seen his words, by the same prophet, fully verified; yet would not take warning, but ran into the same sin of unbelief.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv14, 16, 18 Egypt had lost the battle of Carchemish, but it…
Egypt had lost the battle of Carchemish, but it had not been the scene itself of military operations; while Judaea, from the date of the battle of Megiddo, had perpetually been exposed to the actual horrors of war.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv15, 17, 18 Faces; obstinately, ver. 17., and chap. xliv. 12.
Faces; obstinately, ver. 17., and chap. xliv. 12.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv13–18 if ye say, &c.--avowed rebellion against God, who had…
if ye say, &c.--avowed rebellion against God, who had often (Deu 17:16), as now, forbidden their going to Egypt, lest they should be entangled in its idolatry.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv14, 16, 17 JEREMIAH’S ANSWER, (B) DESTRUCTION IN EGYPT, Jer_42:13-18.
JEREMIAH’S ANSWER, (B) DESTRUCTION IN EGYPT, Jer_42:13-18.
14. Egypt,… no war — A natural thought for the reason that in the recent troublous times the land of Egypt had been in a state of tranquillity. Egypt had indeed been defeated at Carchemish, but no battle had been fought on her own soil.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On v14 14. we shall see no war] We shall be…
14. we shall see no war] We shall be in a land further from Babylon, and therefore not so liable to invasion.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv14, 17 (14) No; but we will go into the land…
(14) No; but we will go into the land of Egypt.—The thoughts that were in the hearts of the applicants are stated with dramatic vividness. Egypt, then under Apries (the Pharaoh-hophra of Jer_44:30), seemed to them so safe and peaceful. As of old, it was still the granary of the East, and its plenteous harvests formed a bright contrast to the famine which they had experienced during the invasion of the Chaldæans. Jeremiah, however, has simply to reject the plan, as from first to last he had resisted altogether the thought of an Egyptian alliance (Jer_2:36; Jer_37:7): there would be no safety nor peace nor plenty found in acting on it. Ezekiel’s prophecies as to Egypt and her king were in this respect in harmony with Jeremiah’s (Eze_17:11-18; Ezekiel 29-32), and were, as nearly as possible, contemporary with them.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv13, 15, 16 Vers. 13-18. A land to be avoided.
Vers. 13-18. A land to be avoided.
How solemn and urgent this warning! Let us ask why it was needed, why God seemed thus to cast doubt on the power of the people to obey him.
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I THE PERILOUS LAND WAS NEAR. They were right in the way to Egypt, having, indeed, moved Egyptwards rather than in any other direction. (Jer_41:17)
II IT HAD OBVIOUS ATTRACTIONS.
1. It seemed to be a land of peace. Egypt had been locked to as a friend and ally. The desolation of Jerusalem had come from the north. When people have been going through a time of war and siege, peace is naturally the blessing put in front of their thoughts. And is not this a good thing, it may be asked? Yes, surely, if peace be desired on high grounds, and from a horror of discord among men. But men may seek it simply to escape from disturbance and from loss of life and property. Their seeking of peace may be a sign of cowardice and altogether groveling aims. Danger may be escaped by the outer man, only to be concentrated more effectually on the man within.
2. It would be a land of bread. Another recommendation of a land which it was unquestionably right, for men to attend to. Egypt was one of the great granaries of the ancient world. But it did not therefore follow that it was a land to live in. Israelites, in particular, needed to recollect how their fathers, beginning by going to Egypt for bread, ended by sinking into most oppressive bondage. Besides, even the land of bread was at times a land of famine.
3. It consequently looked a land to dwell in. God is the God of his people only when they are in their proper place. He was God of the exiles in Babylon, because their going into Babylon was of his operation. But those who went to Egypt in search of mere immunity from toil and inglorious ease could not expect to have the Divine favour. They wanted to get the great ends of life without discipline, sacrifice, and endurance.
III THE VAIN PURPOSE TO ESCAPE FROM EVIL. God tries to make the people understand that they take the germs and principles of evil with them. What we find in any place depends on what we bring; and what we bring we must, in process of time, inevitably find. What had there been to hinder the land of Israel from being a land of peace and a land of bread? Nothing but the faithlessness and general wickedness of the people. We cannot sow wickedness in one place, and then hope to go and reap only good things in some other place. God can turn any place, however fruitful, into a wilderness; and, on the other hand, we know how Jesus made a wilderness a place to feed five thousand men. Jehovah spoke with all this severity to these people to make them understand how hard a thing real obedience was. Y.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv13, 15, 18 if you do not listen to my voice, the…
if you do not listen to my voice, the voice of Yahweh your God
Here "voice" represents a command. To not obey is like the people did not hear Yahweh's command. AT: "if you do not obey my commands, even though I am Yahweh, your God" (See: Metonymy)
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where we will not see any war, where we will not hear the sound of the trumpet
Both of these phrases describe being at war by the ability to see or hear it. AT: "where we will not experience the hardships of war" (See: Parallelism)
we will not go hungry for food
Being hungry for food is used to describe famine. (See: Metonymy)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v13 42:13-22 Jeremiah had already prophesied Egypt’s destiny; it would…
42:13-22 Jeremiah had already prophesied Egypt’s destiny; it would be destroyed by the Babylonians (46:2-26). This remnant of Judah would walk into the path of the Lord’s judgment if they continued on to Egypt.
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