Jeremiah 42:20
For you have deceived your own souls: for you sent me to the Lord our God, saying: Pray for us to the Lord our God, and according to all that the Lord our God shall say to thee, so declare unto us, and we will do it.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Numbers 17:3And the name of Aaron shall be for the tribe of Levi, and one rod shall contain all their families:
Psalms 65:3O hear my prayer: all flesh shall come to thee.
Jeremiah 17:10I am the Lord who search the heart and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices.
Jeremiah 42:5And they said to Jeremias: The Lord be witness between us of truth and faithfulness, if we do not according to every thing for which the Lord thy God shall send thee to us.
Ezekiel 33:31And they come to thee, as if a people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness.
Matthew 22:35And one of them, a doctor of the law, asking him, tempting him:
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 42:8-22
Jeremiah's Address to the People. ( b. c. 588.) 7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah. 8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, 9 And said unto them, Thus saith the Lord , the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him; 10 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant… Read the whole commentary →