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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 42:15 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 42:15 |
King James |
And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there; |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| wholly set your faces--firmly resolve (Luk 9:51) in spite of all warnings (Jer 44:12). |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| If ye - set your faces to enter into Egypt, etc - Every evil that ye dreaded by staying in your own land shall come upon you in Egypt. |
12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
51 And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,