1Then all the captains of the warriors, and Johanan the son of Caree, and Jezonias, the son of Osaias, and the rest of the people from the least to the greatest came near:

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Jeremiah 6:13, Jeremiah 41:11, Jeremiah 40:13, Jeremiah 6:13, Jeremiah 41:11

2And they said to Jeremiah the prophet: Let our supplication fall before thee: and pray thou for us to the Lord thy God for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as thy eyes do behold us.

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Jeremiah 36:7, Jeremiah 36:7, Leviticus 26:22, Leviticus 26:22, Lamentations 1:1

3And let the Lord thy God shew us the way by which we may walk, and the thing that we must do.

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Psalms 86:11, Proverbs 3:6, Psalms 86:11, Proverbs 3:6, Jeremiah 6:16

4And Jeremiah the prophet said to them: I have heard you: behold I will pray to the Lord your God according to your words: and whatsoever thing he shall answer me, I will declare it to you: and I will hide nothing from you.

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1 Samuel 12:23, 1 Samuel 3:17, 1 Samuel 3:18, Psalms 40:10, Exodus 8:29

5And they said to Jeremiah: The Lord be witness between us of truth and faithfulness, if we do not according to every thing for which the Lord thy God shall send thee to us.

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Genesis 31:50, Genesis 31:50, Judges 11:10, Judges 11:10, Malachi 2:14

6Whether it be good or evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send thee: that it may be well with us when we shall hearken to the voice of the Lord our God.

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Jeremiah 7:23, Jeremiah 7:23, Deuteronomy 5:29, Deuteronomy 5:29, Deuteronomy 5:33

7Now after ten days, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah.

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Psalms 27:14, Psalms 27:14, Isaiah 28:16, Isaiah 28:16, Habakkuk 2:3

8And he called Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the fighting men that were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest.

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Jeremiah 42:1, Jeremiah 42:1, Jeremiah 41:11, Jeremiah 41:16, Jeremiah 40:13

9And he said to them: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, to whom you sent me, to present your supplications before him:

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Jeremiah 42:2, 2 Kings 19:4, 2 Kings 19:6, Jeremiah 42:2, 2 Kings 19:4

10If you will be quiet and remain in this land, I will build you up, and not pull you down: I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for now I am appeased for the evil that I have done to you.

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Ezekiel 36:36, Jeremiah 31:28, Jeremiah 24:6, Ezekiel 36:36, Jeremiah 31:28

11Fear not because of the king of Babylon, of whom you are greatly afraid: fear him not, saith the Lord: for I am with you, to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.

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Romans 8:31, Romans 8:31, Jeremiah 1:8, Isaiah 43:2, Jeremiah 1:19

12And I will shew mercies to you, and will take pity on you, and will cause you to dwell in your own land.

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Psalms 106:45, Psalms 106:46, Proverbs 16:7, Nehemiah 1:11, Psalms 106:45

13But if you say: We will not dwell in this land, neither will we hearken to the voice of the Lord our God,

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Jeremiah 44:16, Jeremiah 44:16, Exodus 5:2, Exodus 5:2, Jeremiah 42:10

14Saying: No, but we will go into the land of Egypt: where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor suffer hunger: and there we will dwell.

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Jeremiah 41:17, Jeremiah 4:19, Jeremiah 41:17, Jeremiah 4:19, Isaiah 31:1

15For this now hear the word of the Lord, ye remnant of Juda: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: If you set your faces to go into Egypt, and enter in to dwell there:

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Deuteronomy 17:16, Jeremiah 44:12, Jeremiah 44:14, Deuteronomy 17:16, Jeremiah 44:12

16The sword which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt: and the famine, whereof you are afraid, shall cleave to you in Egypt, and there you shall die.

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Jeremiah 44:27, Ezekiel 11:8, Jeremiah 44:27, Ezekiel 11:8, Amos 9:1

17And all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt, to dwell there, shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence: none of them shall remain, nor escape from the face of the evil that I will bring upon them.

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Jeremiah 42:22, Jeremiah 42:22, Jeremiah 44:13, Jeremiah 44:14, Jeremiah 44:28

18For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my indignation hath been kindled against the inhabitants of Jerusalem: so shall my indignation be kindled against you, when you shall enter into Egypt, and you shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach: and you shall see this place no more.

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Jeremiah 7:20, Jeremiah 7:20, Jeremiah 18:16, Jeremiah 39:1, Jeremiah 39:9

19This is the word of the Lord concerning you, O ye remnant of Juda: Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have adjured you this day.

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Deuteronomy 17:16, Deuteronomy 17:16, Nehemiah 9:26, Nehemiah 9:29, Nehemiah 9:30

20For you have deceived your own souls: for you sent me to the Lord our God, saying: Pray for us to the Lord our God, and according to all that the Lord our God shall say to thee, so declare unto us, and we will do it.

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Matthew 22:35, Ezekiel 14:3, Ezekiel 14:4, Numbers 16:38, Psalms 65:3

21And now I have declared it to you this day, and you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, with regard to all the things for which he hath sent me to you.

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Ezekiel 2:7, Ezekiel 2:7, Zechariah 7:11, Zechariah 7:12, Acts 20:26

22Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence in the place to which you desire to go to dwell there.

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Jeremiah 42:17, Jeremiah 42:17, Ezekiel 6:11, Hosea 9:6, Ezekiel 6:11