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          DASV: Jeremiah 42    

1 Then all the military commanders, and Johanan the son of
Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people
from the least to the greatest, approached
2 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, "Please hear our pleas and
pray to the LORD your God for us, even for all this remnant;
for there are only a few of us left out of many, as your
eyes can clearly see.
3 May the LORD your God show us the way we should go, and
what we should do."
4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, "I have heard
you. I will pray to the LORD your God as you have requested;
whatever the LORD answers you, I will tell you. I will
keep nothing back from you."
5 Then they said to Jeremiah, "May the LORD be a true and
faithful witness against us, if we do not do everything
that the LORD your God sends you to tell us.
6 Whether it be good or bad, we will obey the voice of
the LORD our God, to whom we are sending you, so that it
may go well for us, when we obey the voice of the LORD
our God."

7 After ten days the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah.
8 Then he summoned Johanan the son of Kareah, and all
the military commanders that were with him, and all the
people from the least to the greatest.
9 Then he told them, "This is what the LORD, the God of
Israel, to whom you sent me to present your request to
him, says:
10 'If you will stay in this land, then I will build you
up, and not pull you down. I will plant you, and not
uproot you; for I am sorry for the disaster that I
have inflicted on you.
11 Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you
are now afraid of. Do not be afraid of him, says the
LORD, for I am with you to save you, and to deliver
you from his hand.
12 I will grant you mercy, so that he will have mercy
on you and let you to return to your own land.'

13 But if you say, 'We will not stay in this land;'
thereby disobeying the voice of the LORD your God,
14 saying, 'No, we will go to the land of Egypt and
live there, where we will not experience war, hear
the war trumpets, or be hungry for bread.'
15 Now listen to the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah:
'This is what the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
says: if you are determined to enter Egypt, and go to
settle there;
16 then the sword that you fear, will overtake you there
in the land of Egypt. The famine that you are afraid
of will follow you right down into Egypt which is where
you will die.
17 So everyone who is determined to go to Egypt to
settle there will die by the sword, famine, and plague.
None of them will survive or escape from the disaster
that I will bring on them.'
18 For this is what the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel, says: 'As my anger and wrath have been poured
out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will
be poured out on you, when you enter into Egypt. You
will be an execration, and an object of horror, a curse,
and a mockery and you will never again see this place.'

19 The LORD has told you, O remnant of Judah, 'do not
go down into Egypt.' Know for sure that I have warned
you today.
20 For you have made a fatal mistake; for you sent me
to the LORD your God, saying, 'Pray for us to the LORD
our God, and whatever the LORD our God says, tell us
and we will do it.'
21 This day I have told you, but you have not obeyed
the voice of the LORD your God by doing anything that
he sent me to tell you.
22 Now therefore know for certain that you will die by
the sword, famine, and plague in the place you want
to go to settle."

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