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Jeremiah 38:21

But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the davar that Hashem hath showed me:

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath shewed me:

In Context

20But Yirmeyah said, They shall not deliver thee. Now obey the voice of Hashem, which I speak unto thee; so it shall be well unto thee, and thy nefesh shall live.

22And, hinei, all the nashim that are left in the Bais Melech Yehudah shall be brought forth to the sarim of Melech Bavel, and those nashim shall say, 1 Thy close friends misled thee, 1 and have prevailed against thee: 1 thy feet are sunk in the mud, 1 and they desert thee.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:28And Hashem said unto Moshe, How long refuse ye to be shomer over My mitzvot and My torot?

Numbers 24:13If Balak would give me his bais full of kesef and zahav, I cannot go beyond the commandment of Hashem, to do either tovah or ra'ah of mine own lev; but what Hashem saith, that will I say!

Job 23:13But He stands alone, and who can turn Him? 1 And what His nefesh desireth, even that He doeth. 1

Proverbs 1:24Because I have called, and ye refused, 1 I have stretched out my yad, and no man regarded; 1

Jeremiah 5:3Hashem, are not Thine eyes upon emunah? 1 Thou hast struck them, but they felt no anguish; 1 Thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to accept musar; + 5:3 cf Isa 53:5 1 they have made their faces harder than stone; 1 they have refused to make teshuvah. 1

Jeremiah 26:15But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring dahm naki upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof; for b'emes Hashem hath sent me unto you to speak all these Devarim in your oznayim.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 38:15-28

Zedekiah's Conference with Jeremiah. ( b. c. 589.) 14 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the Lord : and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me. 15 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me? 16 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the Lord liveth, that made us this… Read the whole commentary →

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