Jeremiah 42:21
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.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Now therefore know certainly,.... Or, "in knowing know" (d); they might assure themselves of this, that it would certainly come to pass, and most justly and deservedly; since it was at their own…
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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