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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Jeremiah 42 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/42.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/42-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Jeremiah 42</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/41.htm" title="Jeremiah 41">◄</a> Jeremiah 42 <a href="../jeremiah/43.htm" title="Jeremiah 43">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/jeremiah/42.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then all the army officers, including Johanan son of Kareah and Jezaniah <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew; Septuagint (see also 43:2) Azariah">a</a></sup></span> son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest approached <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Jeremiah the prophet and said to him, “Please hear our petition and pray to the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God for this entire remnant. For as you now see, though we were once many, now only a few are left. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Pray that the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God will tell us where we should go and what we should do.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“I have heard you,” replied Jeremiah the prophet. “I will certainly pray to the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God as you have requested; I will tell you everything the <span class="name">Lord</span> says and will keep nothing back from you.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the <span class="name">Lord</span> be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with everything the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God sends you to tell us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Whether it is favorable or unfavorable, we will obey the <span class="name">Lord</span> our God, to whom we are sending you, so that it will go well with us, for we will obey the <span class="name">Lord</span> our God.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Ten days later the word of the <span class="name">Lord</span> came to Jeremiah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So he called together Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers who were with him and all the people from the least to the greatest. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He said to them, “This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition, says: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>‘If you stay in this land, I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I have relented concerning the disaster I have inflicted on you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you now fear. Do not be afraid of him, declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>, for I am with you and will save you and deliver you from his hands. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I will show you compassion so that he will have compassion on you and restore you to your land.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“However, if you say, ‘We will not stay in this land,’ and so disobey the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and if you say, ‘No, we will go and live in Egypt, where we will not see war or hear the trumpet or be hungry for bread,’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>then hear the word of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, you remnant of Judah. This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you are determined to go to Egypt and you do go to settle there, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow you into Egypt, and there you will die. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Indeed, all who are determined to go to Egypt to settle there will die by the sword, famine and plague; not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring on them.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and wrath have been poured out on those who lived in Jerusalem, so will my wrath be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You will be a curse <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, your name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that you are cursed.">b</a></sup></span> and an object of horror, a curse <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, your name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that you are cursed.">c</a></sup></span> and an object of reproach; you will never see this place again.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Remnant of Judah, the <span class="name">Lord</span> has told you, ‘Do not go to Egypt.’ Be sure of this: I warn you today <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>that you made a fatal mistake when you sent me to the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God and said, ‘Pray to the <span class="name">Lord</span> our God for us; tell us everything he says and we will do it.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I have told you today, but you still have not obeyed the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God in all he sent me to tell you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So now, be sure of this: You will die by the sword, famine and plague in the place where you want to go to settle.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">Hebrew; Septuagint (see also 43:2) <i>Azariah</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, your name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that you are cursed.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, your name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that you are cursed.</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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