Jeremiah 40:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, “The Lord your God pronounced this evil against this place;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, The Lord your God pronounced evil upon this place.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, Jehovah thy God pronounced this evil upon this place;

Common English Bible

² The captain of the special guard located Jeremiah and said to him, “The LORD your God declared that a great disaster would overtake this place.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Therefore, the leader of the military, taking Jeremiah, said to him: "The Lord your God has declared this evil over this place,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And the general of the army, taking Jeremias, said to him: The Lord thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.

Jeremiah 40:2 Cross References

Jeremiah 11:17

The Lord of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil which the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done, provoking me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”

Jeremiah 50:7

All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the Lord, their true habitation, the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’

Jeremiah 52:16

But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

Leviticus 26:14

“But if you will not hearken to me, and will not do all these commandments,

Deuteronomy 28:15

“But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.

Deuteronomy 31:17

Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured; and many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’

Deuteronomy 32:19

“The Lord saw it, and spurned them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.