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Jeremiah 42:21
Jeremiah 42:21 is verse 21 of Jeremiah chapter 42, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in all He has sent me to tell you.
King James Version
And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me unto you.
World English Bible
I have declared it to you today; but you have not obeyed Yahweh your God’s voice in anything for which he has sent me to you.
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Jeremiah 42:19–22 · Berean Standard Bible
19 The LORD has told you, O remnant of Judah, ‘Do not go to Egypt.’ Know for sure that I have warned you today!
20 For you have deceived yourselves by sending me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray to the LORD our God on our behalf, and as for all that the LORD our God says, tell it to us and we will do it.’
21 For I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in all He has sent me to tell you.
22 Now therefore, know for sure that by sword and famine and plague you will die in the place where you desire to go to reside.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Deuteronomy 11:26See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse—
Deuteronomy 11:27a blessing if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,
Ezekiel 2:7But speak My words to them, whether they listen or refuse to listen, for they are rebellious.
Ezekiel 3:17“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from My mouth, give them a warning from Me.
Acts 20:20I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,
Acts 20:26Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.
Acts 20:27For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.
Jeremiah 7:24Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
Jeremiah 7:25From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.
Jeremiah 7:26Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.
Jeremiah 7:27When you tell them all these things, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer.
Deuteronomy 29:19because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
Zechariah 7:11But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
Zechariah 7:12They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.