Jeremiah 38:21

But if you refuse to surrender, this is what Yahweh has revealed to me:

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

20I replied, “If you obey Yahweh by doing what I tell you to do, they will not hand you over to our people. Things will go well for you, and you will remain alive.

22All the women who remain in your palace will be brought out and given to the officers of the king of Babylon. Then those women will say to you: ‘You had friends whom you thought you could trust, but they have deceived you and caused you to make a wrong decision. Now it is as though you are stuck in mud, and your friends have abandoned you.’

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Cross References

Exodus 16:28Then Yahweh told Moses/me to say this to the people: “How long will you people refuse to do all the things that I tell you?

Numbers 24:13‘Even if Balak would give me a palace filled with silver and gold, I would not disobey Yahweh. I cannot do anything bad or anything that is good that he does not approve of.’ And I told you that I could say only what Yahweh says to me.

Job 23:13“He never changes. There is no one who can [RHQ] stop him from doing what he desires. Whatever he wants to do, he does.

Proverbs 1:24But when I called to you, you refused to listen. I beckoned to you to come to me, but you ignored me.

Jeremiah 5:3Yahweh, you are certainly [RHQ] searching for people who tell the truth. You struck/punished your people, but they did not pay any attention. You crushed them, but they ignored what you were telling them to do. They were extremely stubborn [IDM] and refused to return to you.

Jeremiah 26:15But you need to know that if you kill me, you will be killing a man [SYN] who ◄is innocent/has not done anything wrong►. And you and everyone else in this city will be guilty, because the truth is that it was Yahweh who sent me to speak every word that you have heard me say.”

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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