Jeremiah 42:19
The Lord has told you, O remnant of Judah, ‘Do not go to Egypt.’ Know for sure that I have warned you today!
The Lord hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.
Note admonished…: Heb. testified against you
“The Lord has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, ‘Don’t go into Egypt!’ Know certainly that I have testified to you today.
Jehovah hath spoken concerning you, O remnant of Judah, Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified unto you this day.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Go
- God knew, that such was their miserable propensity to idolatry, that they would adopt the idolatrous worship of Egypt. Add to which, their going thither for protection was in effect refusing to submit to the king of Babylon, to whom God had decreed the rule of Judah and the neighbouring kingdoms.
- Deuteronomy 17:16; Isaiah 30:1–7; Isaiah 31:1–3; Ezekiel 17:15
- know
- Jeremiah 38:21; Ezekiel 3:21; Acts 20:26, 27
- admonished you
- Heb. testified against you.
- Deuteronomy 31:21; 2 Chronicles 24:19; Nehemiah 9:26, 29, 30; Acts 2:40; Ephesians 4:17; 1 Thessalonians 4:6