Jeremiah 42:6
Whether good or evil, to the voice of Jehovah our God, to whom we are sending thee, we do hearken; because it is good for us when we hearken to the voice of Jehovah our God.'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
7And it cometh to pass, at the end of ten days, that there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah,
Cross References
Exodus 24:7and he taketh the Book of the Covenant, and proclaimeth in the ears of the people, and they say, 'All that which Jehovah hath spoken we do, and obey.'
Deuteronomy 5:33in all the way which Jehovah your God hath commanded you ye walk, so that ye live, and [it is] well with you, and ye have prolonged days in the land which ye possess.
Joshua 24:24And the people say unto Joshua, 'Jehovah our God we serve, and to His voice we hearken.'
Psalms 81:13O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.
Isaiah 3:10Say ye to the righteous, that [it is] good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat.
Romans 7:7What, then, shall we say? the law [is] sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 42:2-7
Jeremiah Agrees to Consult God. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near, 2 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the Lord thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:) 3 That the Lord thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk,… Read the whole commentary →