Discovery Box| (0.35) | Jer 38:20 |
| Then Jeremiah answered, “You will not be handed over to them. Please obey the Lord by doing what I have been telling you. 1 Then all will go well with you and your life will be spared. 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 38:23 |
| “All your wives and your children will be turned over to the Babylonians. 1 You yourself will not escape from them but will be captured by the 2 king of Babylon. This city will be burned down.” 3 |
| (0.35) | Jer 38:27 |
| All the officials did indeed come and question Jeremiah. 1 He told them exactly what the king had instructed him to say. 2 They stopped questioning him any further because no one had actually heard their conversation. 3 |
| (0.35) | Jer 39:1 |
| King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and laid siege to it. The siege began in the tenth month of the ninth year that Zedekiah ruled over Judah. 1 |
| (0.35) | Jer 40:3 |
| Now he has brought it about. The Lord has done just as he threatened to do. This disaster has happened because you people sinned against the Lord and did not obey him. 1 |
| (0.35) | Jer 41:18 |
| They were afraid of what the Babylonians might do 1 because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the country. |
| (0.35) | Jer 42:16 |
| the wars you fear will catch up with you there in the land of Egypt. The starvation you are worried about will follow you there to 1 Egypt. You will die there. 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 42:17 |
| All the people who are determined to go and settle in Egypt will die from war, starvation, or disease. No one will survive or escape the disaster I will bring on them.’ |
| (0.35) | Jer 43:4 |
| So Johanan son of Kareah, all the army officers, and all the rest of the people did not obey the Lord’s command to stay in the land. |
| (0.35) | Jer 43:5 |
| Instead Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers led off all the Judean remnant who had come back to live in the land of Judah from all the nations where they had been scattered. 1 |
| (0.35) | Jer 44:1 |
| The Lord spoke to Jeremiah concerning 1 all the Judeans who were living in the land of Egypt, those in Migdol, Tahpanhes, Memphis, and in the region of southern Egypt. 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 44:3 |
| This happened because of the wickedness the people living there did. 1 They made me angry 2 by worshiping and offering sacrifice to 3 other gods whom neither they nor you nor your ancestors 4 previously knew. 5 |
| (0.35) | Jer 44:5 |
| But the people of Jerusalem and Judah 1 would not listen or pay any attention. They would not stop the wickedness they were doing nor quit sacrificing to other gods. 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 44:18 |
| But ever since we stopped sacrificing and pouring out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven, we have been in great need. Our people have died in wars or of starvation.” 1 |
| (0.35) | Jer 45:3 |
| ‘You have said, “I feel so hopeless! 1 For the Lord has added sorrow to my suffering. 2 I am worn out from groaning. I can’t find any rest.”’” |
| (0.35) | Jer 46:11 |
| Go up to Gilead and get medicinal ointment, 1 you dear poor people of Egypt. 2 But it will prove useless no matter how much medicine you use; 3 there will be no healing for you. |
| (0.35) | Jer 46:14 |
| “Make an announcement throughout Egypt. Proclaim it in Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpanhes. 1 ‘Take your positions and prepare to do battle. For the enemy army is destroying all the nations around you.’ 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 47:3 |
| Fathers will hear the hoofbeats of the enemies’ horses, the clatter of their chariots and the rumbling of their wheels. They will not turn back to save their children because they will be paralyzed with fear. 1 |
| (0.35) | Jer 47:5 |
| The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning. The people of Ashkelon will be struck dumb. How long will you gash yourselves to show your sorrow, 1 you who remain of Philistia’s power? 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 48:5 |
| Indeed they will climb the slopes of Luhith, weeping continually as they go. 1 For on the road down to Horonaim they will hear the cries of distress over the destruction. 2 |
