Jeremiah 42:20

Modern English Version

For you have only deceived yourselves when you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the Lord our God. And according to all that the Lord our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it.’

Cross References

Psalm 18:44

As soon as they hear of me, they obey me; the foreigners submit to me.

Psalm 65:3

Iniquities prevail against me; as for our transgressions, You will provide atonement for them.

Jeremiah 17:10

I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give to every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his deeds.

Jeremiah 3:10

Yet for all this, her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but feignedly, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 37:3

But Zedekiah the king sent Jehukal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “Please pray to the Lord our God for us.”

Jeremiah 38:14

Then Zedekiah the king sent and had Jeremiah the prophet brought to him at the third entrance that is in the house of the Lord. And the king said to Jeremiah, “I will ask you something; hide nothing from me.”

Jeremiah 42:2

and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be accepted before you, and pray for us to the Lord your God, even for all this remnant, for we are left but a few out of many, as your eyes now see us.

Jeremiah 42:5

Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us, if we do not act according to all things for which the Lord your God shall send you to us.

Jeremiah 43:2

Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men said to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘Do not go into Egypt to sojourn there.’

Ezekiel 33:31

They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them. They do the lustful desires in their mouth, and their heart goes after their covetousness.

Numbers 16:38

As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their own lives, make them into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they presented them before the Lord and they are holy. They shall be a sign to the Israelites.

Numbers 17:3

You will write the name of Aaron on the rod of Levi, because one rod will be for each father’s house.

Matthew 22:35

One of them, who was a lawyer, tested Him by asking Him,

Galatians 6:7

Be not deceived. God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that will he also reap.

James 1:22

Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.