So shall it be with all the men that 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 upon them.
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Gill's Exposition
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,.... See Gill on Jer 42:15;
as mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; like a large hasty shower of rain;…
Translate it: “Then shall the sword of which ye are afraid reach you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine whereof ye pine shall cleave close unto you in Egypt, and there shall ye die; and all…
We have here the answer which Jeremiah was sent to deliver to those who employed him to ask counsel of God.
I. It did not come immediately, not till ten days after, Jer 42:7. They were thus long held…
Du. (see introd. note to section) considers Jer 42:15-18 as wholly an addition, and Jer 42:9-14 as containing much editorial matter.
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