Jeremiah 44:16

New American Bible - revised edition

“Regarding the word you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we are not listening to you.

Cross References

Psalm 2:3

“Let us break their shackles and cast off their chains from us!”

Exodus 5:2

Pharaoh answered, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.”

Proverbs 1:24

‘Because I called and you refused, extended my hand and no one took notice;

Isaiah 3:9

Their very look bears witness against them; they boast of their sin like Sodom, They do not hide it. Woe to them! They deal out evil to themselves.

Jeremiah 11:10

They have returned to the crimes of their ancestors who refused to obey my words. They also have followed and served other gods; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their ancestors.

Jeremiah 11:8

But they did not listen or obey. They each walked in the stubbornness of their evil hearts, till I brought upon them all the threats of this covenant which they had failed to observe as I commanded them.

Jeremiah 13:10

This wicked people who refuse to obey my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts and follow other gods, serving and worshiping them, will be like this loincloth, good for nothing.

Jeremiah 18:18

“Come,” they said, “let us devise a plot against Jeremiah, for instruction will not perish from the priests, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. Come, let us destroy him by his own tongue. Let us pay careful attention to his every word.”

Jeremiah 38:4

Then the princes said to the king, “This man ought to be put to death. He is weakening the resolve of the soldiers left in this city and of all the people, by saying such things to them; he is not seeking the welfare of our people, but their ruin.”

Jeremiah 42:13

But if you keep saying, “We will not stay in this land,” thus disobeying the voice of the Lord, your God,

Jeremiah 43:2

Azariah, son of Hoshaiah, Johanan, son of Kareah, and all the others had the insolence to say to Jeremiah: “You lie; the Lord, our God, did not send you to tell us, ‘Do not go to Egypt to live there.’

Jeremiah 44:24

Jeremiah said to all the people and to all the women: Hear the word of the Lord, all you Judahites in the land of Egypt:

Jeremiah 44:25

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You and your wives have carried out with your hands what your mouths have spoken: “We will go on fulfilling the vows we have made to offer sacrifice to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out libations to her.” Very well! keep your vows, fulfill your vows!

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus says the Lord: Stand by the earliest roads, ask the pathways of old, “Which is the way to good?” and walk it; thus you will find rest for yourselves. But they said, “We will not walk it.”

Jeremiah 8:12

They have acted shamefully; they have done abominable things, yet they are not at all ashamed, they do not know how to blush. Hence they shall be among those who fall; in their time of punishment they shall stumble, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:6

I have listened closely: they speak what is not true; No one regrets wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone keeps on running their course, like a horse dashing into battle.

Daniel 3:15

Now, if you are ready to fall down and worship the statue I made, whenever you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, zither, dulcimer, harp, double-flute, and all the other musical instruments, then all will be well; if not, you shall be instantly cast into the white-hot furnace; and who is the God who can deliver you out of my hands?”

Luke 19:14

His fellow citizens, however, despised him and sent a delegation after him to announce, ‘We do not want this man to be our king.’

Luke 19:27

Now as for those enemies of mine who did not want me as their king, bring them here and slay them before me.’” The Entry into Jerusalem.

1 Samuel 8:19

The people, however, refused to listen to Samuel’s warning and said, “No! There must be a king over us.