Jeremiah 42:20

Bible in Basic English 1965

For you have been acting with deceit in your hearts; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Make prayer for us to the Lord our God, and give us word of everything he may say, and we will do it.

Cross References

Psalm 18:44

From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority.

Psalm 65:3

Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.

Jeremiah 17:10

I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.

Jeremiah 3:10

But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 37:3

And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal, the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Make prayer now to the Lord our God for us.

Jeremiah 38:14

Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and took him into the rulers' doorway in the house of the Lord: and the king said to Jeremiah, I have a question to put to you; keep nothing back from me.

Jeremiah 42:2

And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let our request come before you, and make prayer for us to the Lord your God, even for this small band of us; for we are only a small band out of what was a great number, as your eyes may see:

Jeremiah 42:5

Then they said to Jeremiah, May the Lord be a true witness against us in good faith, if we do not do everything which the Lord your God sends you to say to us.

Jeremiah 43:2

Then Azariah, the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the men of pride, said to Jeremiah, You have said what is false: the Lord our God has not sent you to say, You are not to go into the land of Egypt and make your living-place there:

Ezekiel 33:31

And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.

Numbers 16:38

And let the vessels of those men, who with their lives have made payment for their sin, be hammered out into plates as a cover for the altar; for they have been offered before the Lord and are holy; so that they may be a sign to the children of Israel.

Numbers 17:3

And let Aaron's name be placed on the rod of Levi: for there is to be one rod for the head of every family.

Matthew 22:35

And one of them, a teacher of the law, put a question to him, testing him, and saying,

Galatians 6:7

Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.

James 1:22

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.