Jeremiah 43:1
In the fourth Year of Joakim son of Josias king of Juda, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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1 Samuel 8:10And Samuel spoke every word of the Lord to the people who asked of him a king.
Jeremiah 1:17And do thou gird up thy loins, and stand up, and speak all the words that I shall command thee: be not afraid of their face, neither be thou alarmed before them; for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 26:8The waters of Egypt shall come up like a river: and he said, I will go up, and will cover the earth, and will destroy the dwellers in it.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 43:1
Jeremiah had faithfully delivered his message from God in the foregoing chapter, and the case was made so very plain by it that one would have thought there needed no more words about it; but we find it quite otherwise. Here is, I. The people's contempt of this message; they denied it to be the word of God ( ver. 1-3 ) and then made no difficulty of going directly contrary to it. Into Egypt they went, and took Jeremiah himself along with them, ver. 4-7 . II. God's pursuit of them with another message, foretelling… Read the whole commentary →