1The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying,

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Jeremiah 46:14, Jeremiah 46:14, Exodus 14:2, Isaiah 11:11, Exodus 14:2

2"Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: 'You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwells therein,

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Isaiah 6:11, Jeremiah 9:11, Jeremiah 34:22, Isaiah 6:11, Jeremiah 9:11

3because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods, that they did not know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.

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Deuteronomy 29:26, Deuteronomy 29:26, Deuteronomy 32:17, Deuteronomy 13:6, Deuteronomy 32:17

4However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, 'Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate.'

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Jeremiah 26:5, Jeremiah 26:5, Jeremiah 7:13, Jeremiah 7:25, Jeremiah 7:13

5But they did not listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.

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Revelation 2:21, Revelation 2:22, Isaiah 48:18, Jeremiah 44:17, Jeremiah 44:21

6Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day.'

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Jeremiah 7:20, Jeremiah 7:20, Isaiah 51:20, Jeremiah 42:18, Isaiah 51:17

7Therefore now thus says the Lord, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel: 'Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the midst of Judah, to leave yourselves none remaining;

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Habakkuk 2:10, Habakkuk 2:10, Jeremiah 51:22, Jeremiah 51:22, Numbers 16:38

8in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to live; that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

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Jeremiah 42:18, Jeremiah 42:18, Jeremiah 44:3, Jeremiah 25:6, Jeremiah 25:7

9Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

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Jeremiah 7:17, Jeremiah 7:18, Jeremiah 7:17, Jeremiah 7:18, Ezra 9:7

10They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.'

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Proverbs 28:14, Proverbs 28:14, Jeremiah 8:12, 1 Peter 5:6, Revelation 15:4

11Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: 'Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah.

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Jeremiah 21:10, Jeremiah 21:10, Amos 9:4, Amos 9:4, Leviticus 26:17

12I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be an object of horror, an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

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Jeremiah 42:15, Jeremiah 42:18, Jeremiah 42:22, Jeremiah 42:15, Jeremiah 42:18

13For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence;

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Jeremiah 43:11, Jeremiah 11:22, Jeremiah 44:27, Jeremiah 44:28, Jeremiah 43:11

14so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, shall escape or be left, to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return save such as shall escape.'"

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Romans 9:27, Jeremiah 22:26, Jeremiah 22:27, Romans 9:27, Jeremiah 22:26

15Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,

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Proverbs 11:21, Jeremiah 5:1, Jeremiah 5:5, Proverbs 11:21, Jeremiah 5:1

16"As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you.

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Luke 19:27, Job 21:14, Job 21:15, Luke 19:27, Job 21:14

17But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.

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Nehemiah 9:34, Jeremiah 7:18, Nehemiah 9:34, Jeremiah 7:18, Deuteronomy 23:23

18But since we left off burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

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Malachi 3:13, Malachi 3:15, Malachi 3:13, Malachi 3:15, Numbers 11:5

19When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?"

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Jeremiah 7:18, Jeremiah 7:18, Jeremiah 44:15, Jeremiah 44:15, Genesis 3:6

20Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people who had given him an answer, saying,

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21"The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land. Did not the Lord remember them, and did not it come into his mind,

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Psalms 79:8, Jeremiah 14:10, Jeremiah 44:9, Jeremiah 11:13, Isaiah 64:9

22so that the Lord could no longer bear because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed? Therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

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Jeremiah 25:18, Jeremiah 25:18, Jeremiah 25:38, Jeremiah 44:12, Jeremiah 18:16

23Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned against the Lord, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has happened to you, as it is this day."

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1 Kings 9:9, Daniel 9:11, Daniel 9:12, 1 Kings 9:9, Daniel 9:11

24Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people, and to all the women, "Hear the word of the Lord, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt:

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Jeremiah 43:7, Jeremiah 43:7, Jeremiah 42:15, Jeremiah 44:26, Jeremiah 44:15

25Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, 'You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, "We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her": establish then your vows, and perform your vows.'

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Matthew 14:9, Matthew 14:9, Ezekiel 20:39, James 1:14, James 1:15

26Therefore hear the word of the Lord, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: 'Behold, I have sworn by my great name,' says the Lord, 'that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, "As the Lord God lives."

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Ezekiel 20:39, Hebrews 6:13, Genesis 22:16, Psalms 50:16, Ezekiel 20:39

27Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone.

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Jeremiah 31:28, Jeremiah 31:28, 2 Kings 21:14, Jeremiah 1:10, 2 Kings 21:14

28Those who escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs.

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Jeremiah 44:14, Jeremiah 44:14, Jeremiah 44:25, Jeremiah 44:26, Isaiah 10:19

29This shall be the sign to you,' says the Lord, 'that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil':

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Proverbs 19:21, Proverbs 19:21, Matthew 24:15, Matthew 24:16, Matthew 24:15

30Thus says the Lord, 'Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.'"

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2 Kings 25:4, 2 Kings 25:7, 2 Kings 25:4, 2 Kings 25:7, Jeremiah 34:21