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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 ESV</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><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="../">ESV</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/jeremiah/42.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Warning Against Going to Egypt</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then all the commanders of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, came near <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Let our plea for mercy come before you, and pray to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God for us, for all this remnant—because we are left with but a few, as your eyes see us— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God may show us the way we should go, and the thing that we should do.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God according to your request, and whatever the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> answers you I will tell you. I will keep nothing back from you.” <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="divine-name">Lord</span> be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act according to all the word with which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God sends you to us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Whether it is good or bad, we will obey the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God to whom we are sending you, that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>At the end of ten days the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to Jeremiah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then he summoned Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces 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>and said to them, “Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your plea for mercy before him: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>If you will remain in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I relent of the disaster that I did to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Do not fear the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Do not fear him, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, for I am with you, to save you and to deliver you from his hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you and let you remain in your own land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But if you say, ‘We will not remain in this land,’ disobeying the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and saying, ‘No, we will go to the land of Egypt, where we shall not see war or hear the sound of the trumpet or be hungry for bread, and we will dwell there,’ <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="divine-name">Lord</span>, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel: If you set your faces to enter Egypt and go to live there, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>then the sword that you fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine of which you are afraid shall follow close after you to Egypt, and there you shall die. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>All the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to live there shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. They shall have no remnant or survivor from the disaster that I will bring upon them.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“For thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt. You shall see this place no more. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has said to you, O remnant of Judah, ‘Do not go to Egypt.’ Know for a certainty that I have warned you this day <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. For you sent me to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God, and whatever the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God says, declare to us and we will do it.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God in anything that he sent me to tell you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/42-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Now therefore know for a certainty that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live.”</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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