Jeremiah 40:4

New American Standard Bible 2020

But now, behold, I am setting you free today from the chains that are on your hands. If you would prefer to come with me to Babylon, come along, and I will look after you; but if you would prefer not to come with me to Babylon, do not come. Look, the whole land is before you; go wherever it seems good and right for you to go.”

Cross References

Genesis 13:9

Is the entire land not before you? Please separate from me; if you choose the left, then I will go to the right; or if you choose the right, then I will go to the left.”

Genesis 20:15

Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you; settle wherever you please.”

Genesis 44:21

Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so that I may set my eyes on him.’

Genesis 47:6

The land of Egypt is at your disposal; settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land, let them live in the land of Goshen; and if you know any capable men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”

Esther 3:11

And the king said to Haman, “The silver is yours, and the people also, to do with them as you please.”

Jeremiah 37:14

But Jeremiah said, “A lie! I am not deserting to the Chaldeans”; yet he would not listen to him. So Irijah arrested Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.

Lamentations 3:7

He has walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my chain heavy.