Jeremiah 42:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But if you say, We have no desire to go on living in this land; and do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God,

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 44:16 : 16 As for the word which you have said to us in the name of the Lord, we will not give ear to you.
  • Exod 5:2 : 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, to whose voice I am to give ear and let Israel go? I have no knowledge of the Lord and I will not let Israel go.
  • Jer 42:10 : 10 If you still go on living in the land, then I will go on building you up and not pulling you down, planting you and not uprooting you: for my purpose of doing evil to you has been changed.

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  • Jer 42:14-16
    3 verses
    88%

    14 Saying, No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will not see war, or be hearing the sound of the horn, or be in need of food; there we will make our living-place;

    15 Then give ear now to the word of the Lord, O you last of Judah: the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, If your minds are fixed on going into Egypt and stopping there;

    16 Then it will come about that the sword, which is the cause of your fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and need of food, which you are fearing, will go after you there in Egypt; and there death will come to you.

  • 14 But if you do not give ear to me, and do not keep all these my laws;

  • Deut 1:26-27
    2 verses
    76%

    26 But going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up:

    27 And you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said, In his hate for us the Lord has taken us out of the land of Egypt, to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction.

  • 16 As for the word which you have said to us in the name of the Lord, we will not give ear to you.

  • 15 But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord, but go against his orders, then the hand of the Lord will be against you and against your king for your destruction, as it was against your fathers.

  • Deut 1:41-43
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    76%

    41 Then you said to me, We have done evil against the Lord, we will go up to the attack, as the Lord our God has given us orders. And arming yourselves every one, you made ready to go up without care into the hill-country.

    42 And the Lord said to me, Say to them, Do not go up to the attack; for I am not among you, and you will be overcome by those who are against you.

    43 This I said to you, but you gave no attention and went against the orders of the Lord, and in your pride went up into the hill-country.

  • Jer 42:18-22
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    75%

    18 For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: As my wrath and passion have been let loose on the people of Jerusalem, so will my passion be let loose on you when you go into Egypt: and you will become an oath and a cause of wonder and a curse and a name of shame; and you will never see this place again.

    19 The Lord has said about you, O last of Judah, Go not into Egypt: be certain that I have given witness to you this day.

    20 For you have been acting with deceit in your hearts; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Make prayer for us to the Lord our God, and give us word of everything he may say, and we will do it.

    21 And this day I have made it clear to you, and you have not given ear to the voice of the Lord your God in anything for which he has sent me to you.

    22 And now be certain that you will come to your end by the sword and by being short of food and by disease, in the place to which you are pleased to go for a living-place.

  • 4 So Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, did not give ear to the order of the Lord that they were to go on living in the land of Judah.

  • 6 If it is good or if it is evil, we will be guided by the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we are sending you; so that it may be well for us when we give ear to the voice of the Lord our God.

  • 15 For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

  • 10 And I said to you, I am the Lord your God; you are not to give worship to the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living, but you did not give ear to my voice.

  • 23 And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take the land which I have given you; you went against the orders of the Lord your God, and had no faith in him, and would not give ear to his voice.

  • Num 16:13-14
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    13 Is it not enough that you have taken us from a land flowing with milk and honey, to put us to death in the waste land, but now you are desiring to make yourself a chief over us?

    14 And more than this, you have not taken us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us a heritage of fields and vine-gardens: will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.

  • 45 And you came back, weeping before the Lord; but the Lord gave no attention to your cries and did not give ear to you.

  • 9 If they say to us, Keep quiet where you are till we come to you; then we will keep our places and not go up to them.

  • 6 And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?

  • 12 Did we not say to you in Egypt, Let us be as we are, working for the Egyptians? for it is better to be the servants of the Egyptians than to come to our death in the waste land.

  • Num 14:41-42
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    41 And Moses said, Why are you now acting against the Lord's order, seeing that no good will come of it?

    42 Go not up, for the Lord is not with you, and you will be overcome by those who are fighting against you.

  • 21 But if you do not go out, this is what the Lord has made clear to me:

  • Num 14:8-9
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    8 And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

    9 Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them.

  • 12 And I will have mercy on you, so that he may have mercy on you and let you go back to your land.

  • Num 14:3-4
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    3 Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?

    4 And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.

  • 39 By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,

  • 12 And if word comes to you, in one of the towns which the Lord your God is giving you for your resting-place,

  • 16 Saying, No, for we will go in flight on horses; so you will certainly go in flight: and, We will go on the backs of quick-running beasts; so those who go after you will be quick-footed.

  • 15 And Moses said, If you yourself are not going with us, do not send us on from here.

  • 32 But for all this, you had no faith in the Lord your God,

  • 19 And it will come about, when you say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you will say to them, As you gave me up, making yourselves servants to strange gods in your land, so will you be servants to strange men in a land which is not yours.

  • 7 And they came into the land of Egypt; for they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: and they came to Tahpanhes.

  • 10 If you still go on living in the land, then I will go on building you up and not pulling you down, planting you and not uprooting you: for my purpose of doing evil to you has been changed.

  • 12 They would have nothing to do with the Lord, saying, He will do nothing, and no evil will come to us; we will not see the sword or be short of food:

  • 18 We will not come back to our houses till every one of the children of Israel has come into his heritage.

  • 2 And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?

  • 23 They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.

  • 29 Then I said to you, Have no fear of them.