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JEREMIAH 42:1-17
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 to the greatest, came near, 2 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we pray you, our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to The LORD your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes do see us: 3 that The LORD your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do. 4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray to The LORD your God according to your words; and it shall happen that whatever thing The LORD shall answer you, I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you. 5 Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don`t do according to all the word with which The LORD your God shall send you to us. 6 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of The LORD our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of The LORD our God. 7 It happened after ten days, that the word of The LORD came to Jeremiah. 8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, 9 and said to them, Thus says The LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your supplication before him: 10 If you will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I repent me of the evil that I have done to you. 11 Don`t be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; don`t 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, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land. 13 But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you don`t obey the voice of The LORD your God, 14 saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell: 15 now therefore hear you the word of The LORD, O remnant of Judah: Thus says The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there; 16 then it shall happen, that the sword, which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, whereof you are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt; and there you shall die. 17 So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there: they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.
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