Jeremiah 44:16
14 so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone to reside in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, where they long to return and live; for none will return except a few fugitives.”
15 Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, and all the women standing by—a great assembly—along with all the people living in the land of Egypt and in Pathros, said to Jeremiah,
“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!
17 Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.
18 But from the time we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been perishing by sword and famine.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!
- KJV
- As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
- WEB
- “As for the word that you have spoken to us in the LORD’s name, we will not listen to you.
- ASV
- As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee.
- DARBY
- [As for] the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee,
- BLB
- “The word that you have spoken to us in the name of YHWH—we will not listen to you.
- ÅB
- Vi vil ikke høre på deg i det du har talt til oss i Herrens navn,
- OTB
- "Vi vil ikke høre på budskapet du har talt til oss i Herrens navn!
- B1930
- Vi vil ikke høre på dig i det du har talt til oss i Herrens navn,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Luke 19:27
And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.’”
Read in contextJob 21:14–15
Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
Read in contextLuke 19:14
But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
Read in contextJeremiah 16:15–17
Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their forefathers.
Read in contextIsaiah 3:9
The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.
Read in contextJeremiah 11:10
They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.
Read in contextJob 15:25–27
For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,
Read in contextJeremiah 11:8
Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”
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