Jeremiah 42:20
For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, 'Pray for us to the Lord our God; and according to all that the Lord our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it':
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Numbers 17:3You shall write Aaron's name on the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod for each head of their fathers' houses.
Psalms 65:3Sins overwhelmed me,but you atoned for our transgressions.
Jeremiah 17:10I, the Lord, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Jeremiah 42:5Then they said to Jeremiah, "The Lord be a true and faithful witness among us, if we do not do according to all the word with which the Lord your God shall send you to us.
Ezekiel 33:31They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
Matthew 22:35One of them, a Law scholar, asked him a question, testing 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 →